Trond Mohn Stiftelse | TMS Starting Grant

Trond Mohn Foundation grant candidates at the yearly ceremony December 07, 2018. Photo: Melanie Burford

The Starting Grant Programme

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.

Selina Våge

Dr Selina Våge was awarded TMS starting grant Desember 7th 2018. She is primarily interested in the linkage between complexity in the observable world and how we can understand this from underlying laws of nature. Start up 2019.

Arjan H. Shakel

Dr Arjan H. Shakel was awarded BFS Starting Grant December 7th 2018. He is researcher at the principal Investigator of the project ‘Strengthening Regional Democracy: Contributing to Good Democratic Governance’. Project start 2019.

Photo: Melanie Burford

Helen Frances Leslie-Jacobsen

Dr Helen Frances Leslie-Jacobsen was awarded BFS starting grant December 1st 2017. Her current work focuses on the legal history of Norway, Iceland, and the Faroe Islands in the medieval and Early Modern periods. Start up 2018

Konrad Tywoniuk

Dr Konrad Tywoniuk was awarded BFS starting grant 1. December 2017. He is mainly interested in dynamical phenomena involving nature’s fundamental interactions, mainly the weak and strong nuclear force. Start up in 2018

Andreas Born

Dr Andreas Born is a researcher at the Department of Earth Sciences, where he is leading a research group working on a new type of ice cover model through a unique interdisciplinary approach. Startup 2017.

Lilya Budaghyan

Dr. Habil. Lilya Budaghyan is research leader for the project “Construction of Optimal Boolean Functions”, at the Department of Informatics. She is a leading specialist in the field Boolean functions and their applications. Start up 21017.

Steffen Leth Jørgensen

Dr. Steffen Leth Jørgensen is group leader for a research group at the Department of Earth Science, with support from Bergen Research Foundation. He is also affiliated to the K.G. Jebsen Center for Deep Sea Research, as a group leader. Start up 2017.

Yvette Peters

Dr Yvette Peters is a researcher at the Department of Comparative Politics at UiB, and a principal investigator of the project “The Politics of Inequality. How Representative Democracy (Mal-)Functions in Europe”, supported by BFS. Start up 2017.

Charalampos Tzoulis

Charalampos Tzoulis MD, PhD, is the leader of the research group Translational Science in Neurodegeneration and Aging (TSNA) at the University of Bergen, and is also consultant neurologist at the Haukeland University Hospital. Start up 2017.

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

Nils Halberg

Dr Halberg completed his graduate studies at the University of Copenhagen in 2009. Working in the laboratory of Dr. Philipp Scherer at the UT Southwestern Medical Center he studied the functional role of hypoxia and fibrosis in obese white adipose tissue . Start up 2014. Usynlig tekst Usynlig

Helge Ræder

Helge Ræder MD PhD is a Professor and Vice Chair for Research at the Department of Clinical Science at the Faculty of Medicine and Dentistry. He is also a Consultant at the Endocrine Division at the Department of Pediatrics. Start up 2013. ekst Usynlig tekst tekst Usynlig tekst tekst tekst tekst

Bjarte Hannisdal

Bjarte Hannisdal heads the ‘Earth System Interactions and Information Transfer’ project. He studied biology and geology in Bergen before doing a PhD in Geophysical Sciences at the University of Chicago in 2006. Start up 2014.

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

Åslaug Ommundsen

Professor Åslaug Ommundsen was the principal investigator of the project “From manuscript fragments to book history” (2012-2017). Ommundsen’s primary field is Medieval Latin, specializing in manuscript studies and palaeography. Start up 2012. Usynlig tekst Usynlig tekst Usynlig tekst Usynlig tekst

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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Nicola McLoughlin

Dr Nicola McLoughlin is a geologist and palaeontologist based at Rhodes University and the Centre for Excellence in Palaeosciences at the University of Witwatersrand, South Africa. She received a BA Hons and MSci from the University of Cambridge (2002) Start up 2011. tekst Usynlig tekst tekst tekst

Daniel Lokshtanov

Daniel Lokshtanov is a professor at the Department of Informatics at the University of Bergen, Norway. His main research areas are Theoretical Computer Science and Discrete Mathematics, with a focus on Algorithmic Graph Theory and Parameterized Complexity. Start up 2012.

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

Nathalie Reuter is Professor at the Department of Molecular Biology and affiliated to the Computational Biology Unit. She completed her MSc and PhD in computational and theoretical chemistry at the University Henri Poincaré in Nancy (France). Start up 2009. Usynlig tekst Usynlig tekst Usynlig tekst

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

Silke Appel

Professor Silke Appel is deputy head of the Broegelmann Research Laboratory and group leader of the Dendritic Cell Group at the Department of Clinical Science. She received a master (diploma) in biology (1997) and a PhD (Dr. rer. nat.; 2001) at the Freie Universität Berlin, German. Start up 2008.

Morten Førre

Dr. Morten Førre is professor in atomic physics at the Department of Physics and Technology, University of Bergen. Førre completed his Cand. Scient. Degree in 2000 and was awarded his PhD in physics at the University of Bergen in 2004. Start up 2008.

Asbjørn Grønstad

Asbjørn Grønstad is professor of Visual Culture in the Department of Information Science and media studies and founding director of the Nomadikon Center for Visual Culture at the University of Bergen.Start up 2007. Usynlig tekst tekst tekst tekst

Karsten Specht

Dr. Karsten Spechtis the head of the Bergen fMRI Group and professor at the Department of Biological and Medical Psychology, University of Bergen. He studied physics at the Rheinisch Westfälische Technische Hochschule (RWTH)-Aachen, Germany. Start up 2008 ynlig t

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Jóhanna Barðdal

Prof. Dr. Jóhanna Barðdal is now a professor at the University of Ghent, Faculty of Arts and Philosophy, where she is currently leading the ERC-funded project “Evolution of Case, Alingment and Argunemt Structure in Indo-European” (2013-18). Start up 2008.

Mikko Heino

Professor Mikko Heino is leader of the “Evolutionary Ecology” research group at the Department of Biology, University of Bergen. His main interests are in population and evolutionary ecology, trying to understand how organisms adapt to their environments.. Start up 2007 . 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

Warwick Tucker

After receiving his doctoral degree in mathematics at Uppsala University, in 1998, proving that the Lorenz attractor exists, Tucker spent two years at IMPA (Rio de Janeiro, Brasil) as a postdoctoral fellow. Start up 2007. ynlig lig tekst lig tekst lig tekst lig tekst tekst

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Eli Renate Grüner

Associate professor Renate Grüner leads the Mohns Medical Imaging and Visualization Centre at Haukeland University Hospital. Grüner’s project aimed at building competence and research related to the brand new technology at the time, PET. Start up 2007.

Bodil Holst

Professor Bodil Holst is a professor of Nanophysics. She was the first person to recieve a BFS recruitment grant in 2007 to work on the development of a new microscope technique, using neutral atoms as an imaging probe. Start up 2007.