Previous Starting Grants
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.
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
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.
2008 - 2012
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.
2008 - 2012
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
2008 - 2012
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.
2008 - 2011
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.
2007 - 2011
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.
2007 - 2011
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
2007 - 2011
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.
2007 - 2009
