Researchers to Watch

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Exploring the Hidden Contributions of Women in Fisheries

When we think of the fishing industry, we often picture a man on a boat. But the reality is more nuanced, according to social anthropologist Iselin Åsedotter Strønen.

Uncovering the hidden female influence in medieval literature

Did nuns play a more active and influential role in shaping our literary canon? Professor Laura Saetveit Miles, a specialist in British literature, sets high ambitions for her next research project: she aims to demonstrate how women shaped Medieval literature through both reading and writing.

Bridging the past and present: textile conservation and heritage science

"As a conservator and heritage scientist, I am thrilled by touching the past and literally transferring the experience to the present", says Hana Lukesova at the University Museum of Bergen.

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Political Extremism Scholar: "The Hate is There, but the Violence is Absent"

Since the terrorist attack on 22 July 2011, Lars Erik Berntzen has dedicated much of his time to studying far-right actors in Europe.

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Building a heart in a changing world

As the ocean warms, researchers are racing to uncover the impact of the climate crisis on marine life. In an innovative multi-scale project, developmental biologist Lionel Christiaen sets the focus on the very beginnings of life in a changing environment.

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Stefan Riedener wins Young Researcher’s Prize 2024

“I experience this prize as an enormous encouragement to believe in the things I am doing, and a profound motivation to try and continue my work,” says the award winner who hopes to one day write something that can have a real impact on how we live our lives.

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Prestigious Research Grant for Thundercloud Studies

Professor Martino Marisaldi has been awarded an ERC Advanced Grant of €3.5 million for his research into how lightning initiates —one of the longest-standing unsolved mysteries in atmospheric electricity.

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"Even after years of research, you may have no idea where it will end up."

Professor of informatics Fedor Fomin explains what he does for a living and talks about the current challenges in algorithmic theory.

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An innovative approach to understanding mathematical proofs

A groundbreaking philosophical approach to understanding proving in mathematics is on the horizon. Sorin Bangu does research that can change how we teach mathematics, making it more engaging.

Hrvoje Miletic is hoping to solve the mystery of malignant brain tumors

Professor Hrvoje Miletic and his team at UiB have made groundbreaking discoveries that could provide new answers to what makes malignant brain tumors grow. The goal is to improve both survival and treatment of brain cancer.

Putting Norwegian Church Art Into Its Atlantic Context

Professor Justin Kroesen traces the shared Western European culture forged under the Medieval Church.

When climate change affects intangible cultural heritage

What can society do when climate change affects crafts, traditions, knowledge about nature, and other expressions of intangible cultural heritage? Daniel Puig, a researcher at the Centre for Climate and Energy Transformation, is exploring this question.

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Professor Slavkovik: AI is Key to a Better Future

One of UiB's leading AI researchers, Marija Slavkovik, thinks there is a cost to not leaning into artificial intelligence.

Seeking clarification of criminal law’s understanding of mental illness

Professor Linda Gröning at UiB receives a prestigious grant from the European Research Council to explore the connection between mental illness and criminal responsibility.

UiB-researcher wants to find out how fetus's genes control pregnancy

Many women experience symptoms such as brain fog, fatigue, and abdominal pain in the first part of pregnancy. Ground-breaking research from UiB can provide new answers to how genes can trigger such symptoms.

Yan Li by the shore in Bergen, known as "the capital of the fjords".

Predicting “freak waves”

Yan Li, an associate professor at the Department of Mathematics and Bjerknes Centre for Climate Research, has been working on developing theoretical models to predict the occurrence probability of so-called “rogue waves” or “freak waves.” These waves can be approximately three times higher than the...

Bringing Crises into Focus

«Is there a response pattern that cuts across different crises? We don’t really know,» UiB researcher Pierre-Georges Van Wolleghem says. Now he wants to study just that.

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Wolfgang Hottner receives Young Researcher’s Prize 2023

Wolfgang Hottner’s work on the role of inorganic materiality around 1800 poses new challenges for the research on the literature and aesthetics of the period. Now Hottner is awarded the Young Researchers Prize 2023 for his exceptional work and achievements.

Exploring the biosphere under the ocean

Underneath the ocean floor, thrives a vast biosphere which activity profoundly impacting our global environment; from the air that we breathe, to the balance of the global carbon budget. The functioning of this biosphere is what the new director at the Centre for Deep Sea Research at UiB, Steffen...

Åslaug Ommundsen has researched Medieval manuscript culture in Norway.

Manuscripts that link Europe together

“I never tire of studying medieval manuscripts. Even though my source material is Norwegian, it is also fundamentally international. This gives the research a broader perspective and forces international cooperation”, Professor Åslaug Ommundsen says.

She Studies How Valuable the Information Facebook has on You Is

Should you 'like' everything you feel like liking on Facebook, or hold back? It depends, says associate professor in economics, Eeva Mauring.

Ingrid Halland’s keynote lecture ‘Towards Deep Surfaces’ at the symposium Living Prototypes at Aedes Architekturforum, Berlin (2022). Photo: Aedes Architekturforum

"Sustainability needs to look different"

Ingrid Halland is convinced that the materials of a more sustainable future cannot mimic the aesthetics belonging to the paradigms we must leave behind.

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Erik Knudsen Wants Media Researchers to Focus More on Thresholds

“What is missing in the selective exposure theory is the fact that most likely people are reading a lot of information that they don’t agree with. Which is why I am shifting the attention to that,” Erik Knudsen says.

Individualising treatments to help people with poor impulse control

Hayley MacDonalds multidisciplinary research focuses on the neurophysiological, genetic and behavioural mechanisms of an important executive function - impulse control. Her research can help people with conditions such as Parkinson’s disease, ADHD and Tourette syndrome.

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The Arctic Is a «Living Laboratory» According to Aaron Spitzer

Assistant professor at UiB, Aaron Spitzer says his «life’s work» has involved seeking to understand, and trying somehow to be useful to, Arctic peoples and places.

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Filling knowledge gaps about near-Earth space

Space scientist Karl Magnus Laundal plays a key role in several international projects on how the Earth is connected to space. Among other things, the research can lead to a better understanding of the northern lights and phenomena that affect satellites and technology on the Earth’s surface.

Predicting weather events months before they happen

Clemens Spensberger's research aims to drastically improve prediction of weather incidents, by describing and establishing climate links between different geographical regions.

Starting Grants awarded to outstanding researchers

Carina Strell, Mali Husby Rosnes and Suzette Flantua have been awarded the Trond Mohn Foundation’s Starting Grant for 2021.

Vadim Kimmelman selected for the Young CAS Fellow programme

Linguist Vadim Kimmelman is one of two young, outstanding researchers in Norway who will participate in the Young CAS Fellow programme. He will do research on sign linguistics and whole‐entity classifiers.

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Tracking our earliest human ancestors from microscopic remains

New type of analysis show for the first time how people who lived between 100,000 and 70,000 years ago organised their campsites and settlements. The results can explain why these people developed the ability to make jewellery and objects of art.

The complex system of facial expressions in sign language

In the near future deaf people and hearing people may be able to communicate in real time, using automatic translation systems based on computer vision technologies. Now researchers are carefully studying facial expressions used in sign language to express both grammatical information and emotions.

Politics as profession

Professor Ragnhild Muriaas at the University of Bergen started her working career as a DJ. Now she investigates what strings must be played in politics to make a footprint.

Making research matter

Applied mathematician Inga Berre is drawn to solving problems, and enjoys being in for the long haul in cracking them.

Portrait of Benjamin Pfeil, leader of the Bjerknes Climate Data Centre at the University of Bergen

Providing data to save our ocean

Reporting on ocean acidification data directly targeting the Sustainable Development Goals is all in a day’s work for Benjamin Pfeil and his data group at the University of Bergen.

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