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Meet a biologist

Updated: 05.02.2014 (First published: 14.09.2010)

Biology means life.

The people that study biology are learning more about life.

The term «biologist» covers a broad range of educational backgrounds, job types and people! Most can be characterised by curiosity and passion!  We will take the opportunity to highlight some biologists here.

 

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...

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.

40 years service at UiB

Over the past 40 years the field of microbiology has undergone significant changes. Chief Engineer Frida Lise Daae has experienced many of them first hand.