Pinar Heggernes

Professor, Deputy rector

E-mailPinar.Heggernes@uib.no
Phone+47 55 58 41 75+47 924 82 316
Visitor Address
Muséplassen 1

5007 Bergen
Postal Address
Postboks 7800

5020 Bergen

Pinar Heggernes is the elected deputy rector of University of Bergen. Her areas of responsibiliy contain education and digital knowledge. She is a professor of computer science with specialization in algorithms.

Until 2021 she was the head of Department of Informatics at UiB. She has extensive experience as a researcher and educator, as a leader of several externally funded projects and as a member of program boards and editorial committees of international scientific conferences and journals. She is active in the national research and education policy arena, as a board member of the Research Council of Norway and one of the founders of NORA – Norwegian Artificial Intelligence Research Consortium.

She is interested in collaboration between academia, businesses and public administration; she has been a member of the resource group for digitization of Bergen Chamber of Commerce and Industry, and advisory board for the Norwegian Cognitive Center. She has played a key role in coordinating various initiatives related to interdisciplinary ICT research and interdisciplinary ICT educations at UiB. Heggernes has her education from UiB and has had several long research stays abroad, including USA, France and Turkey. She has been a board member of the Faculty of mathematics and natural sciences, and a deputy member of the university board at UiB.

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Show author(s) (2022). On the Maximum Number of Edges in Chordal Graphs of Bounded Degree and Matching Number. Algorithmica.
Show author(s) (2022). Generation of random chordal graphs using subtrees of a tree. Reserche operationelle. 565-582.

Show author(s) (2021). Trenger Norge flere kvinnelige realister? Bergens Tidende.

Show author(s) (2020). Partitioning a graph into degenerate subgraphs. European journal of combinatorics (Print). 12 pages.
Show author(s) (2020). Parameterized Aspects of Strong Subgraph Closure. Algorithmica. 2006-2038.
Show author(s) (2020). On the maximum number of edges in chordal graphs of bounded degree and matching number. Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS). 600-612.
Show author(s) (2020). Finding connected secluded subgraphs. Journal of computer and system sciences. 101-124.

Show author(s) (2019). Structural and Algorithmic Graph Theory Through the Lenses of Graph Classes.
Show author(s) (2019). Preface. Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS). ix-xiv.
Show author(s) (2019). Enumeration of Minimal Connected Dominating Sets for Chordal Graphs. Discrete Applied Mathematics. 3-11.
Show author(s) (2019). Dette er Darwin’s «survival of the fittest». Dagens næringsliv.
Show author(s) (2019). Algorithms for Outerplanar Graph Roots and Graph Roots of Pathwidth at Most 2. Algorithmica. 2795-2828.
Show author(s) (2019). Algorithms and Complexity - 11th International Conference, CIAC 2019, Rome, Italy, May 27-29, 2019, Proceedings. Springer.
Show author(s) (2019). 44th International Symposium on Mathematical Foundations of Computer Science, MFCS 2019, August 26-30, 2019, Aachen, Germany. Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik.

Show author(s) (2018). Rainbow Vertex Coloring Bipartite Graphs and Chordal Graphs. Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics. 83:1-83:13.
Show author(s) (2018). Parameterized Aspects of Strong Subgraph Closure. Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics. 23:1-23:13.
Show author(s) (2018). Output-Polynomial Enumeration on Graphs of Bounded (Local) Linear MIM-Width. Algorithmica. 714-741.
Show author(s) (2018). Finding connected secluded subgraphs. Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics. 1-13.
Show author(s) (2018). Enumeration and Maximum Number of Minimal Connected Vertex Covers in Graphs. European journal of combinatorics (Print). 132-147.

Show author(s) (2017). Algorithms for outerplanar graph roots and graph roots of pathwidth at most 2. Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS). 275-288.

More information in national current research information system (CRIStin)

Pinar has been the project leader of four grants from the Research Council of Norway's FRIPRO programme:

CLASSIS - The renaissance of graph classes - New algorithmic theory of forbidden induced subgraphs, 2016-2020.
SCOPE - Exploiting Structure to Cope with Hard Problems, 2010-2015.
MIST - Minimal Separators and Triangulations in Graphs - Algorithms and Applications, 2005-2009.
Parallel and sequential methods for large scale matrix computations, 1999-2000.

She has led many bilateral mobility projects, and she has been a partner or PI in many other project grants from the Research Council of Norway, Trond Mohn Foundation, National Security Authority and EU.

More details can be found here.

Memberships in national boards and distinctions:

Scientific advisory board of Norwegian Cognitive Center, 2020 - 2021.
Board of directors of the Research Council of Norway, 2019 - 2022.
Chair of the board of directors of NORA - Norwegian Artificial Intelligence Research Consortium, 2018 - 2021.
Board of directors of Simula Research Laboratory, since 2011.
Resource group for digitalization of Bergen Chamber of Commerce and Industry, 2019 - 2021.
Chair of ICT strategy planning group, University of Bergen, 2018.
Board of directors of Unifond AS, 2010-2019.
Program committee for the Bergen branch of Norwegian Academy of Technological Sciences, 2017 - 2019.
National committee for assessment of professor promotions in Computer Science, 2015 - 2019.
Elected member of Norges Tekniske Vitenskapsakademi, since 2014.
Deputy head of Department of informatics, University of Bergen, 2010 - 2018.
Strategy planning group, University of Bergen, 2010.
Deputy member of the directing board of University of Bergen, 2009-2013.
Directing board of research programme eVITA, Research Council of Norway, 2006-2015.
Directing board of Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences, University of Bergen, 2005-2009.
Directing board of UNINETT Sigma AS, 2005-2012.
National Committee for Planning a Research Program in e-Science, Research Council of Norway, 2005.
National Board for Strategic Planning of Research within ICT at Universities and University Colleges in Norway, 2003-2004.