Category: Person
Willkommen Franziska!
MSc. Franziska Ihlefeldt is a Phd student from Prof. Mats Tilset’s group (UiO) and she will join us as guest researcher. Her work is focusing on the development of N-heterocyclic carbenes of group 8 as catalysts for the copolymerization of epoxides with CO2. Her project is directly connected to the GreenCAT project “Design of Green Catalysts for the Conversion of Renewable Resources into Polymers”, led by Erwan Le Roux and funded by NFR.
Kjersti goes to Forsker Grand Prix!
Kjersti made a marvelous performance at the Bergen final in Forsker Grand Prix last night, demonstrating outdoor sampling gear, her sea weed collection, chemical structures and contagious enthusiasm. A worthy representative for chemistry – we are impressed! This event is part of Forskningsdagene – a yearly week devoted to science – and next year You will have opportunity to compete in FGP. Challenge accepted?
Nytt laboratorium for peptidsyntese
Ved Kjemisk institutt er det etablert et nytt laboratorium for automatisert peptidsyntese. Laboratoriet ledes av Professor Bengt Erik Haug, og etableringen har vært mulig takket være finansiering fra Bergens Forskningsstiftelse. Haug og gruppen hans er svært fornøyde med å få på plass moderne instrumentering for automatisert syntese og effektiv opprensing av peptider. Den nye lab´en vil gi et løft for forskningsaktiviteter rettet mot studier av biologisk aktive peptider ved UiB.
Laboratoriet har allerede vært benyttet av ansatte og studenter ved Kjemisk institutt, Molekylærbiologisk institutt, Senter for farmasi og Institutt for biomedisin. Tilgang til effektiv peptidsyntese og ikke minst muligheten for fremstilling av modifiserte peptider er aktuelt for en rekke forskningsprosjekter ved UiB. Laboratoriet vil blant annet bli benyttet for fremstilling av peptider for anvendelse innen positron emisjons tomografi (PET) i samarbeid med PET-senteret ved Haukeland Universitetssykehus. Mer informasjon om laboratoriet finnes her.
Bienvenida a Sara!
After spending time in the most stunning landscapes of Norway last year, Sara Barranco Campos, a BSc student from Madrid, decided to join the Le Roux group for an Erasmus internship of 9-months. Ms. Barranco is greatly enthusiastic about working on the development of new bifunctionalized N-heterocyclic carbene of group 4 as catalysts for the copolymerization of epoxides with CO2 . Her project is a part of GreenCAT-project – “Design of Green Catalysts for the Conversion of Renewable Resources into Polymers”, funded by the Research Council of Norway.
Kvalheim featuring Chenchen’s thesis on regional television!
As many will know, Chenchen Lin successfully defended her PhD thesis last week. Her work forms part of the research effort of professor Kvalheim and coworkers, within metabolomics. An important application is within the treatment of obesity, and Chenchen’s findings in this respect were recently featured in Vestlandsrevyen!
Dr Lin
Chenchen Lin successfully defended her PhD thesis today. The thesis title is Multivariate analysis of human serum fatty acid profiles and a popular-science summary is provided in Norwegian here. Dr Lin has been supervised by Olav Kvalheim and Svein Mjøs. Congratulations to all involved and most of all to Chenchen herself!
Welcome Max!
Max Akira Endo Kokubun is recently hired as a postdoctoral researcher focusing on mathematical modelling and numerical simulation of colloid transport in porous media. The project is led by Kristine Spildo in collaboration with Florin Radu from the math department and funded by Akademiaavtalen.
Max is from Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, and before joining us he was working with mathematical modelling and analysis of liquid-gas filtration combustion, with emphasis on multicomponent effects. He holds a physics degree and both Master and PhD degrees in Aerospace Engineering, all from Brazil.
Welcome to Jarand!
Jarand Gauteplass is recently hired as a postdoctoral researcher on a project focusing on CO2 injectivity and storage in the subsurface. The project is supervised by Prof. Tanja Barth and the overall objective is to mitigate loss of CO2 injectivity near the injection well caused by hydrate formation and salt precipitation. The project is funded by NFR / CLIMIT.
Previously, Jarand has been characterizing multiphase fluid flow in heterogeneous porous media at various length scales. He holds a PhD in reservoir physics from the physics department @ UiB.
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Velkomen, Mildrid!
Mildrid Kyte er nyleg tilsett som universitetsstipendiat i realfagdidaktikk med tilknyting til kjemisk institutt. Ho har tidlegare gått på lektorprogrammet i naturvitskap og matematikk med spesialisering i kjemi og biologi her ved UiB, og er nyleg ferdig med master i miljøkjemi og helse ved Københavns Universitet med masteroppgåva «Atmospheric Chemistry of Organic Nitriles and Sulphur Compounds».