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Meet a biologist

Read about some of the many interesting biologists working at BIO.

  • A carabid beetle, Carabus nemoralis, eating a brown slug, Arion lusitanicus

    Becoming a biologist

    A universal characteristic of life as a researcher is that there are unexpected serendipitous moments where one thing leads to another. This pattern began for Bjørn Arild Hatteland as a recent high school graduate looking for his first job. He noted on the manpower services form that he had enjoyed studying Biology at school.

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    Risk-taking, interdisciplinary, pioneering and unconventional

    These are the words that the European Research Council uses to describe the work of the Advanced Investigators they selected for 2009. Frede Thingstad, the leader of the Marine Microbiology research group at BIO, was one of the advanced investigators selected.