Trygve Helgaker

Trygve Helgaker was born on August 11 1953 in Porsgrunn, Norway. He received the degree of cand. scient. in chemistry in 1980 and the degree of dr. philos. in 1986, both at the University of Oslo. After postdoctoral positions at the Institute for Mathematics and its Applications (IMA), University of Minnesota in 1986–87 and at the Department of Chemistry, Aarhus University in 1987–89, Helgaker became an associate professor (førsteamanuensis) at the Department of Chemistry, University of Oslo in 1989, where he became a full professor in 1993.

Helgaker was on sabbatical leave in the group of Prof. Nicholas Handy at the University of Cambridge in 1999–2000 and in the group of Prof. David Tozer at Durham University in 2006–07. In January 2003, Helgaker a was a guest professor at Faculté de Chimie, Université Louis Pasteur in Strasbourg. Since 2007, Helgaker has been co-director of the Centre for Theoretical and Computational Chemistry (CTCC), a Centre of Excellence awarded by the Research Council of Norway 2007–2017.