Since the start, the foundation has sought to promote recruitment of outstanding young researchers to Bergen. In cooperation with the University of Bergen (UiB) a 4-year recruitment program; the Starting Grant programme, has been established to achieve this goal.
The program calls for nominations each year and the foundation normally award 3-4 scholarships. Current candidates are presented below.
Willem van der Bilt
Dr Willem van der Bilt was awarded TMS Starting Grant December 4th 2020. His project will use new techniques and models to improve the knowledge within the field of global warming.
Erlend Grong
Dr Erlend Grong was awarded the TMS Starting Grant on desember 4th 2020. The project will do the groundwork for new tools for understanding equations that appear in finance and robotics.
Salwa Suliman
Dr Salwa Suliman ble tildelt TMS Starting Grant 4. desember 2020. Sulimans forskning omhandler stamceller; spesielle celler som kan gjenopprette skadet vev og bein i en prosess kalt regenerering.
Karl M. Laundal
Dr Karl M. Laundal was awarded the TMS Starting Grant December 6 2019. He leads the TMS Starting Grant project “What Shapes Space”. Project start 2020.
Eirik Hovden
Dr Eirik Hovden was awarded the TMS Starting Grant December 6 2019. Hovden studies how Islamic law changes. The project started in 2020teks
Harald Barsnes
Harald Barsnes, PhD, is leading the project “Building the bridge between high-throughput omics analyses and novel biomedical knowledge” and he is affiliated both to Department of Biomedicine and Department of Informatics. Start up 2016.Usynlig tekst Usynlig tekst Usynlig tekst Usynlig tekst Usynlig tekst Usynlig tekst Usynlig tekst
Marco Hirnstein
Dr. Marco Hirnstein is the leader of the “FlaSH” research group and in charge of the brain stimulation facilities at the Department of Biological and Medical Psycology. Start up 2016. Usynlig tekst Usynlig tekst Usynlig tekst Usynlig tekst Usynlig tekst Usynlig tekstUsynlig tekst Usynlig tekstUsynlig Usynlig tekst Usynlig tekst
Håvard Haarstad
Professor Håvard Haarstad is the princial investigator of the project “European cities as actors in climate and energy transformations”, at the Department of Geography. He is a human geographer, and has his MA (2005) and PhD (2009) degrees from UiB. He leads the research group SpaceLab and is director of Centre for Climate and Energy Transformation. Start up 2016
Kjetil Våge
Dr. Kjetil Våge is a research scientist in physical oceanography at the Geophysical Institute. He completed his undergraduate degree in physics at the University of New Brunswick, Canada (2003) followed by graduate degrees (MSc in 2006 and PhD in 2010) in physical oceanography from the Massachusetts. Start up 2016. Usynlig tekst Usynlig tekst Usynlig tekst
Anna Nele Meckler
Dr. Nele Meckler focuses on reconstructing past climates using innovative techniques on geological materials, such as marine shells preserved in ocean sediments. Following studies in geo-ecology at the University of Bayreuth, Anna Nele Meckler, continued her scientific career with a doctorate in paleo-oceanography obtained from ETH Zurich in 2006. Start up 2015.
Stian Knappskog
Dr. Stian Knappskog completed his engineers education in 1999 and his MSc in 2003. He has since then been focusing his research on the molecular and genetic mechanisms causing some cancer cells to become resistant to chemotherapy. Start up 2015. Usynlig tekst Usynlig tekst Usynlig tekst Usynlig tekstUsynlig tekstUsynlig tekst
Eivind Valen
Eivind Valen leads a research group at the Computational Biology Unit and the Sars Centre. His lab spans experimental and computational biology and addresses fundamental questions about how our genes are regulated. Start up 2014. Usynlig tekst Usynlig tekst Usynlig tekst Usynlig tekst Usynlig
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Thomas Arnesen
Dr. Thomas Arnesen is professor at the Department of Molecular Bioloy and the Department of Biomedicine at the University of Bergen. He completed his cand. scient and PhD degrees at UiB in 2002 and 2006, before post-doctoral training at Haukeland University Hospital and the University of Rochester, Start up 2012.
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Erik Tonning
Dr Erik Tonning is Research Director of the ‘Modernism and Christianity’ project. He completed an undergraduate degree at Bergen (1999) and an MA at Oslo (2001), before going on to the University of Oxford for his DPhil (2006). Start up 2011. Usynlig tekst tekst tekst tekst t tekst tekst t tekst tekst tekst
Emmeth McCormack
Professor Emmet McCormack is PI of the research group Translational Molecular Imaging in Cancer. His main motivation is the development and effective translation of novel therapies and imaging strategies for the treatment of cancer, particularly cancers with limited therapeutic options. Start up 2011.
Heidi Sandaker
Professor Heidi Sandaker was leader of the Bergen Dark Matter Centre called DAMARA (Dark Matter Analysis, Research and Applications). She completed a PhD (2005) at the University of Oslo, based mostly at CERN, in Switzerland Geneva (2 years) and at Oxford. Start up 2009. Usynlig tekst Usynlig tekst Usynlig tekst
Nathalie Reuter
Stephanie Le Hellard
Dr. Stephanie Le Hellard is a Professor in Human Genetics at the Faculty of Medicines. She is a core researcher at the Norwegian Centre for Mental Disorders and the K.G. Jebsen Centre for Psychosis Research. She has been affiliated with the University of Bergen since 2006 . Start up 2009. nlig tekst te nlig tekst te nlig tekst te nlig
Jørn Jacobsen
Jørn Jacobsen is professor of law at the Faculty of Law, University of Bergen. Jacobsen graduated from the Faculty of Law as cand.jur. in 2003, and was thereafter appointed as researcher. He has served this institution since. Start up 2009. nlig tekst tekst tekst tekst Usynlig tekst tekst tekst nlig tekst te nlig tekst te
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Boris Lenhard
Boris Lenhart is a professor of Computational Biology at the Faculty of Medicine, Institute of Clinical Sciences at the Imperial College London. Start up 2008. tekst tekstUsynlig ig tekst tekst tekstUsynlig ig tekst tekst tekstUsynlig ig tekst tekst tekstUsynlig ig tekst tekst tekstUsynlig ig tekst tekt tekst tekst tekstUsynlig ig tekst tekt tekt
