New appointments at the Geophysical Institute

Igor Esau

Igor is newly employed as Adjunct Associate Professor II (20%) in energy and environment financed by the BKK-agreement. The overall goal of the position is to strengthen the energy master program. The scientific profile and the research basis for the master program shall be strengthened and developed with focus on the interface between energy and environment.

Igor Esau holds two PhDs; from the Russian Academy of Science in 1996 and from Uppsala University i 2003. His current main position is as Research Director and Head of the GC Rieber Climate Institute Nansen Environmental and Remote Sensing Centre, Norway.

Ivan Østvik

Ivan is newly employed as Adjunct Associate Professor II (20%) in Maritime Energy financed by Akademiaavtalen – Cooperation agreement between Statoil and the University of Bergen. The overall goal of the position is to strengthen UiBs contribution to research and research based education related to transition of maritime activities to zero emission and energy efficient maritime transportation systems. Ivan will contribute to supervision of energy master students and to further development of the energy master education. He will work with relevant and competent research groups at UiB to define research themes where UiB can develop leading expertise in collaboration with industry clusters such as NCE Maritime Cleantech in order to address new societal and research challenges.

Ivan Østvik holds a PhD in risk-based design from the University of Strathclyde, Glasgow, in 2000. His current other positions are Business development manager at the NCE Maritime Cleantech, CEO and Owner at Oestvik Energy AS and Project manager maritime at Prototech/ Greenstat.