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Welcome Nilgun!

Hello everyone! My name is Nilgun, and I come to the Department of Chemistry from the Geophysical Institute on loan 40% while Torill is on leave. You can find me in her office (3A9c) on Mondays and Tuesday and Thursday afternoons, or you can reach me on TEAMS (55583734) or by email (nilgun.kulan@uib.no) anytime.

I started working at UiB – GFI five years ago as a research advisor and project manager of an EU – H2020 project called TRIATLAS. I have a PhD in Physical Oceanography and have been involved in research both as a researcher and an administrator. In my personal life, I have been fortunate enough to live in diverse environments in Turkey, Canada, Japan, and now, in Norway.

Looking forward to meeting you all!

Welcome Zeljana!

Hi everyone! My name is Zeljana, and I recently started my PhD in educational research at the department, with the supervision of Monica Jordheim and Anja Møgelvang Jacobsen. My background is in psychology, and after my master´s degree I started working as a research assistant in projects aimed at improving student integration and learning environment in higher education. As I was working with these projects it became clear that educational research was the field I wanted to work in, and I am very excited to pursue that work here at the department! Can’t wait to meet everyone!

Welcome back to an exciting new academic year!

Hopefully you have all experienced an enjoyable summer vacation, disposed of stress hormones earned during the Spring term, and also stored up energy, ideas and inspiration to invest in the new academic year! This and last week we received new and returning students in chemistry, nanotechnology, medicinal technology, pharmacy, energy studies and in the teacher education, to name those programs where chemistry is most heavily invested. Choosing UiB and our programs is a strong expression of trust which translates into a great responsibility. We accept this responsibility with dedication to quality in our study programs, both in the individual courses, the programs, and the social learning environment. Let us continue the proud tradition of the Chemistry Department in welcoming the students in a friendly, helpful and efficient manner! This applies equally well to when detecting lost souls in the corridor, teaching them in our laboratory courses or theoretical classes, or introducing them to our research groups and laboratories.  Addressing the new BSc, MSc and PhD students, I would like to borrow from the inauguration speech delivered by rector Margareth Hagen: Congratulations on having chosen the Department of Chemistry for your studies! Here you will get the competence to serve you well through all of your professional carrier, and beyond!

Velkomstseremoni 2023. Foto: Eivind Senneset, UiB

 

Congrats to dr. Ingrid!

Last Friday, Ingrid Schiager Skinnarland successfully defended her thesis «Investigations of intermediates and byproducts formed in an industrial process – structure elucidation and mechanistic studies» for the degree of ph.d. She has been an enterprise phd-student («nærings-PhD») at our department, and her project has been carried out both at GE Healthcare Lindesnes Fabrikker and at the Department of Chemistry. She has been supervised by Prof. em. Leiv K. Sydnes and Dr. Torfinn Håland. We congratulate!

Takk for meg

Kjære alle gode kolleger på Kjemisk institutt

Det er en tid for alt, og nå går jeg over i ny jobb i Forskningsseksjonen i fakultetsadministrasjonen på Det medisinske fakultet.

Tusen takk godt samarbeid og lykke til videre.

Riktig god sommer.

Beste hilsen
Hege

Course in Preparing for your next Horizon Europe Proposal

Course content: The European framework program Horizon Europe supports is the EU’s main funding programme for research and innovation. Running from 2021 to 2027 with a budget of 95.5 billion euros, it is the most extensive research funding programme globally. It supports a wide range of research and innovation activities, including primary and applied research, innovation projects, and networking activities, and provides funding and opportunities for researchers in all fields and at all career stages.

However, complexity and documentation render the program challenging to navigate. Many scientists with excellent ideas are not participating in the program despite their outstanding research. On the other hand, a few magically attract funding. They know how to network, find relevant «Call to Action» and write a competitive proposal, next to being a good researcher. These observations are my main drivers for developing a practical how-to course on using the vast amount of data in the EU system to think outside the box and understand and navigate the Horizon Europe framework program.

Learning outcome:
Participants will get an overview of:
– How to take advantage of past and current projects funded by the EU Commission to think outside the box?
– How to navigate Horizon Europe – Pillar II to find relevant «Call to Action»?
– How to write the core concept of a research proposal?

Target group:
Suitable for both scientific and administrative staff who want to learn more about practical creativity, Horizon Europe and developing research proposals. Please note that this is an internal UiB course, and is only open to UiB employees.

Duration: The course lasts 2,5 hours. There will be an exchange of experience and group work along the way.

Principal trainer: Hiwa Målen (PhD & RM), Department of Research and Innovation, University of Bergen.

For admin. support staff: 10.06.22.
For scientific staff: 17.06.22.

Read more about registration.

Horizon Europe Inspiration Workshop

Welcome to Horizon Europe Inspiration Workshop – a follow-up event to the Info Day in January 2022.

13.05.2022, at 09.30-15.00. Scandic Hotell Ørnen.

All UiB researchers are welcome to this event.

The programmme begins with a brief overview of the different types of funding available for research, innovation, career and networking in Horizon Europe and Erasmus + and how to find them.

Researchers and research advisers from UiB share their experiences in talks and panel debates on network building, team building and proposal writing.

Mingling sessions: Throughout the day, there will be open stations where researchers can get advice and help from research advisers to find funding opportunities within their research field or interest, or ask questions about Horizon Europe and Erasmus +.

Preliminary programme and registration (deadline 10.05.22 at 12.00).

Nanoteknologi for fremtiden og klima

Foto/ill.: Pixabay, https://www.uib.no/ub/150614/nanoteknologi-fremtiden-og-klima

Populærvitenskapelig foredrag i biblioteket

Kunnskapseplet

I dette foredraget, vil førsteamanuensis Martin Møller Greve fra Institutt for fysikk og teknologi gi en introduksjon til hva nanoteknologi er. Han vil ta for seg noen dagsaktuelle eksempler som demonstrerer viktigheten til nanoteknologi for å løse teknologiske og forskningsmessige problemer og se på muligheter for nyvinninger og løsninger innen klima og energi. Foredraget blir avsluttet med ett blikk på forskning som blir gjort ved UiB for å forbedre effektiviteten til solceller.

Arrangementet varer omtrent ca. 30-45 minutter og det blir enkel servering av kaffe og kjeks. Alle er hjertelig velkommen!

Tid og sted

21.04.2022 – 14.1515.00
Bibliotek for matematisk-naturvitenskapelige fag, Realfagsbygget

OPPLEV på Marineholmen 23. april

Lørdag 23. april skal det myldre på Marineholmen i Bergen. Universitetet i Bergen har fylt 75 år, og vi er opptatt av de neste 75 årene.

Velkommen til festival i området rundt VilVite!

​GRATIS INNGANG!

Les mer om program og hva du kan oppleve her

Invitation to seminar: UiB AI #2 But, why? – Make AI answer- 8 April at 10 a.m.

The UiB AI Steering Group welcomes you to a seminar on April 8th at 10 am in the University Aula.  The seminar lasts until 11:30 and there will be lunch and discussions 11:30-12:00.

This is the second in a series of seminars on artificial intelligence at UiB. The seminars will be a meeting point across departments and fields of research, where different examples on the use of AI in research will be presented.

On April 8th Samia Touileb and Ghazaal Sheikhi from MediaFutures (Department of Information Science and Media Studies) will talk about how AI sees the world and makes the decisions that shapes it.

Since participation is physical and we will order food, we ask all participants to register via the link on the seminar web page. You will find more information about the seminar and registration link here:

UiB AI #2 But, why? – make AI answer! | UiB AI | UiB

Registration deadline: 06.04.2022 – 12.00.

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