The Titan prize is awarded annually to a researcher who has made an unusual and outstanding effort to tell about the research at the MN faculty. This year, the Titan prize went to Dag O. Hessen, who is professor at the Department of Biosciences and head of the Center of Biogeochemistry in the Anthropocene (CBA).
- This year's award winner has distinguished himself as a steady communicator over a number of years, and it is probably correct to call him the MN faculty's only "celebrity". He has achieved this status through being a particularly active and clear voice and conveys about evolution, climate, ecology and the importance of biology for the understanding of man, says Bjørn Jamtveit who is research dean at the Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences at the University of Oslo.