MSc Biological Physics

Biological physics is an interdisiplinary science using physics as a tool to understand structures and processes within biology and medicine. Biological physics covers all scales of biological organisation of from molecules to cells, organisms and populations. We give research based education within an area where the discovery rate is enormous and jobs are made. 

The main focus of this MSc study is:

How do fundamental physical laws determine the properties of complex biological systems?


Scientific and technological revolution

This MSc will give you the opportunity to partake in the incredible revolution within life science today. After the first revolution "Molecular biology" and the second revolution "Genomics" a high rate of discovery is now driven by interdisciplinarity in the intersection between bioscience and physics, chemistry, mathematics and informatics. Big questions such as "what is life?", "what is intelligence?" and "what is cancer?" are on the agenda. We also work with technological approaches to life science research and healthcare.

Choose your own curriculum

We use our knowledge to develop and improve methods within life science. You choose the theoretical curriculum based on which direction you specialize in and the master project can be tailored to fit your interest and qualifications.


Interdisciplinary

The theoretical curriculum will teach you theory, modelling and/or experiment and in your thesis work you will apply this to biological problems. In your interdisciplinary master project you will work closely with researchers at the Department of Biosciences, the Hybrid Technology Hub, the Department of Clinical and Biomedical Engineering at Oslo University Hospital, the Centre for Molecular Medicine, the Department of Biomaterials or the Norwegian School of Sport Sciences.