(TCLS= Thursday Chemistry Lunch Seminar: 12.15-13 @ Tripletten
For ALL employees at the Chemistry Department!
Hello everyone! My name is Gunnhild and I have just started my PhD in the Chemical Medical Technology group under the supervision of John Georg Seland. 
For the last four years I have worked as a medical physicist with MRI scanners at Oslo University Hospital. MR technology fascinated me during my bachelor’s in physics at UiB, so when it was time for me to choose a subject for my master’s, the decision fell on MR spectroscopy. I am so happy that I now get to continue working with spectroscopy for my PhD, and I look forward to getting to know all of you better as well!
I’m Florian, a French bioinformatician who recently graduated from a master’s program at Nantes Université. I began my research journey with a bachelor’s degree in Biochemistry in Université Laval, Canada. During this I had the opportunity of internships in the molecular biology and synthetic biology domains, as well as student implication in an international scientific competition. After seeing what kind of information simulations could bring, I decided to get into structural bioinformatics.
Due to my interest in the new wave of solutions being developed using AI, I am now part of Prof. Reuter’s lab as part of a collaborative project to characterize proteins that intermittently bind to the membrane with machine and deep learning tools. I look forward to sharing this journey with all of you.
Have a nice day,
Florian Echelard
Please note: The event takes place at Tripletten (3069) in the Science building, starting at 19h00!
From November 1st, Frida will spend 80% of her time as a researcher in the Haug group. The researcher position is affiliated with the 180N Norwegian Nuclear Medicine Consortium funded through the Trond Mohn Foundation. Frida will be part of the Tracer Development Center within the consortium and will work on new methods for 18F radiolabeling of organosilanes and functionalization of bioactive compounds with chelator moieties for introduction of radiometals. The project will be carried out in collaboration with the LeRoux group and the PET centre at Haukeland University Hospital.
Hello, everyone.
I am Zaw Min Thu from Myanmar. I earned my PhD degree from Mandalay University, Myanmar in 2016. I studied my doctorate mobility, as a part of my PhD program, at University of Pavia, Italy in 2013 and did my post-doctoral study at Ningxia Organic Synthesis and Engineering Technology, Ningxia Academy of Agriculture and Forestry Sciences, PR China in 2019. During my PhD and post-doctoral career, I have been working on Natural Product Chemistry and monobactam antibiotics synthesis. 
I will be working as a researcher in Professor Torgils Fossen´s research group with a passion for the isolation and structure determination of bioactive natural products from selected plant sources with a particular focus on aromatic compounds. I am excited to start a new chapter in my life, working with you and living in such a beautiful city, Bergen.
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 😊
Trond Mohn Stiftelse og UiB karriereprogram, Solstrand 19. og 20. september 2023
TMS på Solstrand.Foto: Eivind Senneset, UiB
To spennende dager i sol og regn sammen med nåværende og tidligere TMS Starting-Grant mottakere, med tid og rom til å bli bedre kjent og utveksle erfaringer. Rektor presenterte UiBs visjon og ambisjon i dagens politiske kontekst i Norge, mens andre presentasjoner delte innsikt i UiBs økonomimodell og budsjett. Fakultetsdirektør Elisabeth Müller Lysebo informerte om kravene for å få professorat ved UiB, med søkelys på undervisningskomponenten og hva som forventes, mens Haris Tzoulis fortalte om sin vei til professorat. Sist, men ikke minst ble deltagerne utfordret på egen lederstil og viktigheten av en god gruppedynamikk for å kunne bygge en god forskerkarriere ved UiB. Som kveldsunderholdning gav Justas Zalieckas fra IFT, mottaker av både TMS og ERC StG i 2022, en spennende «candlelight lecture» om karbon, diamanter og deres bruk i medisinske implantater.
Hello everyone!
I am Mariell and took my master´s degree in chemistry with Tanja Barth´s group at the University of Bergen. I am now employed as a scientific assistant until mid December and I look forward to working at the department.
Hello everybody! My name is Eduard Pogorilyy. I am originally from Ukraine and have called Norway my home for the past 12 years since my family moved here. I received my bachelor’s and master’s degrees from the University of Bergen.
After about a year and a half in the industry, I returned to the University of Bergen, this time as a Ph.D. candidate, joining the esteemed research group led by Assoc. Prof. Erwan Le Roux. In my research, I will delve into PET-imaging, with a specialized focus on exploring macrocyclic chelators as potential ligands for Titanium-45 radiopharmaceuticals.
In addition to my Ph.D. pursuits, I have a keen interest in reading books, engaging in training sessions, and embarking on hiking adventures. These activities provide me with a well-rounded perspective and a balanced approach to both academic and personal growth.
On Friday September 1, MSc Marie Emilie Wekre defends her doctoral thesis for the ph.d. degree. You are welcome to sit in to learn about the research project and to follow the scientific discussion!
Vital coordinates: 10.30 in Auditorium 2 (Science Bld).
Extracts from the press release: The world’s population is growing and the demand for new raw materials for food, medicines and other foodstuffs is increasing. Macroalgae, also known as seaweed and kelp, play an important role in marine ecosystems and have great potential for sustainable exploitation. One of several classes of compounds that can be extracted from algae are polyphenols. Polyphenols constitute a large and diverse group of natural molecules that have many positive health effects and serve important functions in reproduction and protection in plants and algae. Much less is known about polyphenols in algae as opposed to land plants. Due to the nature of algae, it is also challenging to extract, isolate and quantify polyphenols from algae.
In this PhD project, improved methods for characterizing polyphenols from seaweed and kelp are developed, and new information on the polyphenol content in macroalgae is shown to be useful for commercial exploitation – as well as of value for chemical ecology and ocean monitoring.