Congrats Dr. Audun!
It is a pleasure to congratulate Audun Drageset on his presentation and defence of his PhD project and thesis today! 
Velkommen til offisiell åpning av Læringssenteret
Torsdag 22. mars kl. 14.00 er både studenter og ansatte hjertelig velkommen til den offisielle åpningen av det nye Læringssenteret vårt, sør i Realfagbygget. Det blir både musikk, taler, snorklipping og enkel bevertning!
Merethe promoterer kjemistudiet
Har du spørsmål om kjemistudiet, poteter og det å få jobb, sjå her for gode svar!
Invitation to the Leiv K. Sydnes Symposium
On the occasion of Professor Leiv K. Sydnes’s 70th birthday in July, colleagues and former students are organising a two-day symposium on May 15th-16th 2018, honouring his long-standing contribution to the Norwegian and international scientific community.
(c) IUPAC
Invited speakers are Udo Brinker (State University of New York at Binghamton, USA), Janine Cossy (ESPCI Paris/CNRS/PSL Research University, France), Anita Maguire (University College Cork, Ireland), Trond Vidar Hansen (UiO), John Sigurd Mjøen Svendsen (UiT) and Magne O. Sydnes (UiS).
In addition to the invited lectures, there will be opportunities for poster presentations and short talks by the symposium participants.The symposium will take in the University Aula, 12:00-18:30 on May 15th and 09:00-13:00 on May 16th.
Deadline for abstract submission for a short talk: April 3rd
Deadline for poster abstract submission: April 20rd
Deadline for registration: April 16th.
Fagdag i kjemi
Siste fagdag i skoleåret 2017/2018 er 23. mars. Det er elever fra skolene Rå, Skranevatnet og Ytrebygda som besøker oss.
Audun disputerer
Audun Drageset disputerer 6. april 2018 med avhandlingen:
Continuous flow processing and enabling technology. Amidation, oxidation, reduction, and other essential synthetic reactions
Dr. Drageset
PhD Seminar Series Kicked-off
Last month the new seminar series for PhD candidates at the chemistry department was kicked-off, and today was second meeting. The seminar series will provide valuable training in participating at and leading scientific discussions, as well as in presenting and discussing topics from your research with fellow chemists that are not necessarily experts in your own field of research. Last but not least, the seminars will serve as a meeting place where our PhD candidates can get to know each other and learn more about research outside their own group. As a rule of thumb, we will meet on the last Wednesday of the month at 9:15 in Reagensglaset. (Text: Kristine)
Welcome to professor Nathalie Reuter!
As announced last Friday, professor Nathalie Reuter will join the department starting from July 1! She is an outstanding scientist with a long record of achievements and fruitful collaborations including some with colleagues at our department. To exemplify, she leads the BIOTEK2021 project Novel drug candidates for Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease treatment, which includes Bengt Erik (PI) and Åsmund (researcher). Many of you attended her TCLS lecture last November, on exploring the binding of soluble proteins to biological membranes by means of molecular simulations and experiments. We will learn more about her research interest in the years to come, as she contributes to shape molecular life science as one of the main strategic axes at the department. Her background includes a PhD (1999) from the renowned Université Henri Poincaré, Nancy, postdoc in theoretical chemistry at the Max-Planck Institut für Kohlenforschung, Mülheim, followed by a period as researcher at Institut national de la santé et de la recherche médicale (INSERM, Strasbourg). She was hired at the Computational Biology Unit (CBU) at UiB in 2003, first as service scientist and then advancing into position as leader of her own research group, before running successfully for a BFS candidate-ship in 2009 and eventually promoted to full professor at MBI in 2013. In short, you are most welcome, Nathalie!
Workshops on responsible research and innovation (RRI) 4.& 5. April
All PhD students at UiB are invited to 1-day workshops in responsible research and innovation (RRI). No prior knowledge of RRI is needed. Participants may sign up for one or both of the workshops.
Responsible PhD: Integrating RRI into PhD research – 4. April, 08.30 – 16.00. This workshop will provide an introduction to RRI and brainstorm on how ideas of RRI can be integrated into the individual PhD project.
Developing RRI guidelines for PhD research – 5. April, 08.30 – 16.00. After a brief introduction of RRI, this workshop will employ case studies and a «world café approach» to go further into the issue of how RRI could and should be implemented into PhD research.
Each workshop corresponds to 1 ECTS credit including preparation and a post-workshop reflection memo. Please register by 29. March. More information HERE.