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The Institute of Theoretical Astrophysics (ITA) at the University of Oslo is the only Norwegian institution that offers education in astrophysics at the bachelor, master, and PhD levels. ITA has about 70 employees including 15 (associate) professors. The main research activities are in the fields of solar physics, extragalactic astrophysics and cosmology. ITA hosts the Rosseland Centre for Solar Physics (RoCS), a centre of excellence funded by the Research Council of Norway (2017 - 2027). ITA has strong research activities in numerical simulations of the solar atmosphere, galaxy formation, and cosmological structure formation. ITA has active participation in ESA missions such as Planck, and the ongoing Solar Orbiter and Euclid missions, and participates in NASA solar physics missions such as IRIS and the upcoming MUSE. ITA has access to telescopes on La Palma: as the largest external user of the Swedish 1-m Solar Telescope (SST) and as partner in the Nordic Optical Telescope (NOT). ITA has a strong research activity in data analysis of the Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) and participates in ground-based CMB experiments such as Simons Observatory and line intensity mapping experiments such as COMAP. ITA has a leading role in the development of the Atacama Large Aperture Submillimeter Telescope (AtLAST).