New assoc. prof. in town – Camilla!
Hi everyone!
I’m back! And I’m ready to embark on my new position as associate professor here at the Department of Chemistry. I know quite many of my wonderful colleagues from before, but since I also discover a lot of new faces, a proper introduction is in order.
I am originally from Stavanger, and growing up in Stavanger is quite similar to growing up in Bergen, except less mountain tops, a lot more wind and a little less rain. I am of stereotypical Norwegian-outdoors-people heritage, and I am doing my very best passing on the legacy to my offspring. This means you may stumble across me/us on one of Bergen’s Mountain tops or paths on the weekends, preferably wearing skis in the winter season. I have an English Setter named Kita, I’m a food enthusiast and I grow apples on trees in flowerpots on the porch of my family’s miniature house.
In 2007 I moved to Bergen to study chemistry, finishing up with a PhD in chemistry approximately 10 years later. My field of focus is thermochemical conversion of waste biomass (wood/lignin, sewage sludge, food waste etc.), which tends to be unpredictable and nasty business, but by combining targeted industrial approaches with academic pathways for qualitative and quantitative revelations, valuable biorefinery concepts and creations have emerged. Being a biomass advocate, I have been part of a wide array of projects involving valorization of biomass into energy carriers and renewable platform chemicals, both as PhD-student, postdoctoral fellow and researcher. During my postdoc I also dove into sustainability analyses, leading to my most recent position as senior researcher on integrating life cycle assessment as part of research and scientific development.
I look forward to this new chapter with the department, to teach and to generate new and creative research projects and collaborations.
Cheers,
Camilla 😊
