Category: New faces

Here you will find presentations of our new staff members and long-term guests.

New member of staff – Rebekka Haugland

My name is Rebekka Haugland, and I recently started as a PhD candidate at the University of Bergen, with my office at the Institute of Marine Research. In my PhD, I will be working on developing sustainability indicators for seafood,…

New member of staff – Arjen van der Kamp

This week we are happy to welcome Arjen van der Kamp to the Theoretical Ecology Group. Arjen is a PhD candidate hired through the FRIPRO project Thermos (Regional downscaling of eco-physiological theory – confronting global predictions with local observations), led…

New HR contact person at BIO

Magnus Skogstad takes over as the department’s primary contact in HR related matters as of 1. October: I come from Bergen and have a degree in economics, and I am looking forward to getting to know both the academic community…

New PhD candidate – Adriana Neeltje de Vries

Hei everyone, my name is Adriana Neeltje de Vries but I generally go by Anne though I will also answer to Adriana. I am employed by Nofima AS and am generally stationed in the beautiful Sunndalsøra. Last year I worked…

New member of staff – Marit Midtun

Hello everyone, my name is Marit Midtun. I am on loan from the Study Department and will be spending 50% of my time here until Christmas. My regular job is in the Learning Lab, where I am an advisor mainly…

New member of staff – Tianyuan Wang

Hello, I am Tianyuan and am quite happy to be in Bergen and join in such a big community. While ever been to Finland for a short exchange program during my undergraduate, I have never been to Norway before, and…

New member of staff – Sjur Barndon

Hello, I’m Sjur and very excited to be here! I’m mainly here to do glacier modelling as a research assistant with the PPF-Alpine project lead by Suzette Flantua. I am from Bergen and I did my master’s on ice sheet…

New member of staff – Yu-Chen Ding

Hello everyone! My name is Yu-Chen, but you can call me Wayne. I’m from Taiwan and started my PhD on March 24. This is my first time living in the beautiful city of Bergen, and its rainy weather reminds me…

New member of staff – Petra Hribovšek

Hi everyone, my name is Petra Hribovšek and I’ve started my Postdoc position last year (I’m a bit late with my BIOnytt message) in Deep Sea Biology Research Group, led by Ida Helene Steen, associated with Centre for Deep Sea…

New member of staff – Lin Li

Hi, I’m Lin! I’m so excited to be here and to meet all of you. I’m from China, and this is my first time in Bergen. There’s certainly a lot of rain here—but just as abundant is the warmth and…