(TCLS= Thursday Chemistry Lunch Seminar: 12.15-13 @ Tripletten
For ALL employees at the Chemistry Department!
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.
Dear colleagues,
On Tuesday September 5, time has finally come for the official opening of the new chemistry laboratories at the 4thfloor of the Science Bldg😊
With EnergyLab, HealthLab, and HTE@UiB Laboratory for automated chemistry, the Department of Chemistry move into state-of-the-art research laboratories for the benefit of students, staff and collaborators in research and Innovation. This opens up a number of new possibilities and is well worth highlighting and celebrating! The department’s employees in all categories are cordially welcome to participate in the celebration and at the same time to add their contribution to the commemoration, e.g. during the lab tour.
Program:
- Welcome by dean Gunn Mangerud
- Congratulations from rector Margareth Hagen, real estate director Kjartan Nesset, head of department Knut Børve and mayor Linn Kristin Engø
- Cord cutting by the mayor and rector
- Cake and mingling
- Tour in/around the new chemistry laboratories
Time and place: Sep 5 at 13.00-14.00, in the assembly area outside the main elevators at the 4th floor.
Welcome!
Our wonderful world – young scientists tell
Research is to be open, accessible and responsible. Popular science dissemination plays a decisive role in engaging society in research. Join us and enjoy research from Digital Life Norway at the University Museum in Bergen! This evening the floor is left to a group of young researchers who explore our wonderful world and use biotechnology to find innovative solutions to today’s major societal challenges. Among those are Ludvik Olav Espeland, who is pursuing a PhD at our department, and dr. Illimar Rekand, who shared his research time between Dept Biomedicine and Dept Chemistry as he obtained his PhD.
Time and place: Sep. 6, 2023 6:30 PM – 8:00 PM, Universitetsmuseet i Bergen (Forhandlingsrommet)
Hello everyone! I have a master’s degree in chemistry from the university of Bergen where I had the opportunity to work with Hans-René Bjørsvik. My research focused on developing a synthetic pathway for a potential pharmacophore of avrainvillamide.
I am now employed as a research assistant and am looking forward to work on an exciting project. I will be synthesizing compounds that will be investigated for therapeutic effects, ADME-studies and toxicological assessments.
Hello all, I am very excited to be pursuing my PhD here at UiB as a member of Prof. Dietzel’s research group.
I was born and raised in Oregon, USA, where I took my bachelor’s at Portland State University, but I moved to Norway two years ago to attend NTNU where I completed my master’s in Organic Chemistry. The main focus in my research both during undergraduate and graduate studies has been in alternative energy and I am glad to be continuing work with these applications in mind. I will be working with MOFs for the electrochemical transformation of carbon dioxide to formic acid as a means of chemical energy storage.
Outside of chemistry I love listening to music, dancing ballet, doing photography, and going for hiking and skiing trips, among other things.