2016-2020
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.
2016-2020
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
2016-2020
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.
2015-2020
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.
2015-2019
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.
2015-2019
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.
2014-2017
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.
2014-2018
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.
2014-2017
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.
2013-2016
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.
2012-2016
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.
2012-2016
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.
2012 - 2016
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.
2011-2015
Nicola McLouchlin
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.
2011-2014
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.
2011 - 2014
Emmet Mc Cormack
Professor Emmet Mc Cormack 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.
2009-2013
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.
2009 - 2014
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.
2009 - 2012
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.
2009 - 2012
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.
2008 - 2012
