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The Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences is one of six faculties at the University of Bergen, and has around 2700 students. Teaching is offered at undergraduate and graduate (M.Sc. and Ph.D.) levels. The Faculty consists of 8 departments, which provide the foundations for its teaching and research activities
Centres of Excellence
The University of Bergen is located in Bergen, the second largest city in Norway.
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Unique observations of optical lightning and terrestrial gamma flash
For the first time simultaneous detection of a terrestrial gamma flash and the optical signal from lightning is presented.
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Will rising sea temperatures increase the impacts of invasive seaweeds?
Introduced and invasive seaweeds can come to dominate and even replace native species. With increasing sea temperatures due to climate change, this impact can be worse.
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ERC Starting Grant to Saket Saurabh
Saket Saurabh has been awarded an ERC Starting Grant of 13 million NOK. Saurabh will establish his group at the Department of Informatics, University of Bergen.
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GLANAM - a major European project that is to be coordinated by GEO, UiB
Mid May the news arrived that the ESF FP7 Marie Curie Initial Training Network on the Glaciated North Atlantic Margins (GLANAM) has been funded for four years. GEO is the leader of the network and has a leading role in projects focusing on Svalbard and Barents Sea margins
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- More extremophiles research (21.05.2013)
- Industrial Biotechnology project to BIO (16.05.2013)
- PhD dissertation - Fatema Moni Chowdhury (16.05.2013)
- Honoured guest (15.05.2013)
- 3 PhD fellowships at SKD (15.05.2013)
Open Positions
- Researcher in molecular biology - Application deadline: 25.05.2013
- Research fellow (PhD candidate) in marine geology/paleoceanography - Application deadline: 31.05.2013
- Postdoctoral fellow in mathematics - Application deadline: 01.06.2013
- Research fellow (PhD candidate) in mathematics – 2 positions - Application deadline: 03.06.2013
- Research fellow (PhD candidate) in statistics - Application deadline: 03.06.2013
- Postdoctoral fellow in synthetic organic chemistry - Application deadline: 05.06.2013
- Research fellow (PhD candidate) at the Centre for Climate Dynamics – three positions - Application deadline: 09.06.2013
- Research fellow (PhD candidate) in physics/process technology – two positions - Application deadline: 10.06.2013
- Postdoctoral fellow in statistics - Application deadline: 15.06.2013
- Postdoctoral fellow in statistics - Application deadline: 15.06.2013
- Postdoctoral fellow in geodynamics of conjugate North Atlantic rift and passive margin formation – re-announcement - Application deadline: 31.07.2013
- Postdoctoral fellow in coupled 2D and 3D geodynamic-surface process modelling of rift basins – re-announcement - Application deadline: 05.08.2013