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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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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. y