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Pinar Heggernes
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Pinar Heggernes

Position

Centre director Quantum UiB

Affiliation

E-mail
pinar.heggernes@uib.no
Phone number
+47 92482316
+47 55584175
Visitor address
Høyteknologisenteret Datablokken, 3. etg
5008 Bergen
Room: 303N2
Postal address
P.O. Box 7803
NO-5020 Bergen
Norway

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Pinar Heggernes

Position

Centre director Quantum UiB

Affiliation

Research groups

Short info

Pinar Heggernes is a professor of computer science with a specialization in algorithms. Her areas of research are hard graph problems and algorithms for graph classes. She was the elected deputy rector of University of Bergen 2021 - 2025 with responsibility for education and digital knowledge.

Research

Until 2021 she was the head of Department of Informatics at UiB. She has extensive experience as a researcher and educator, as a leader of several externally funded projects and as a member of program boards and editorial committees of international scientific conferences and journals. She is active in the national research and education policy arena, as a former board member of the Research Council of Norway and one of the founders of NORA – Norwegian Artificial Intelligence Research Consortium.

She is interested in collaboration between academia, businesses and public administration; she has been a member of the resource group for digitization of Bergen Chamber of Commerce and Industry, and advisory board for the Norwegian Cognitive Center. She has played a key role in coordinating various initiatives related to interdisciplinary ICT research and interdisciplinary ICT educations at UiB. Heggernes has her education from UiB and has had several long research stays abroad, including USA, France and Turkey. She has been a board member of the Faculty of mathematics and natural sciences, and a deputy member of the university board at UiB.

Publications

2025

2022

2021

2020

2019

2018

See a complete overview of publications in NVA.

See all publications in a separate web page

Projects

Pinar has been the project leader of four grants from the Research Council of Norway's FRIPRO programme:

  • CLASSIS - The renaissance of graph classes - New algorithmic theory of forbidden induced subgraphs, 2016-2020.
  • SCOPE - Exploiting Structure to Cope with Hard Problems, 2010-2015.
  • MIST - Minimal Separators and Triangulations in Graphs - Algorithms and Applications, 2005-2009.
  • Parallel and sequential methods for large scale matrix computations, 1999-2000.

She has led many bilateral mobility projects, and she has been a partner or PI in many other project grants from the Research Council of Norway, Trond Mohn Foundation, National Security Authority and EU.

More details can be found here.

Kort CV

Nasjonale verv og utmerkelser

Mer detaljer kan finnes her (external link)

Utvalg og styringsgrupper ved UiB

Utvalg, styringsgrupper og arbeidsgrupper ved UiB som prorektor Pinar Heggernes leder:

  • Arbeidsgruppen for revisjon av UiBs kvalitetssystem for utdanning (2024)
  • Arbeidsgruppen for UiBs strategi 2030 (2022)
  • Styringsgruppen for NOKUT-tilsyn (2022)
  • Utdanningsutvalget
  • Læringsmiljøutvalget
  • Styringsgruppen for Lektorutdannigen ved UiB
  • Styringsgruppen for UiB AI
  • Styringsgruppen for digital forståelse, kunnskap og kompetanse
  • Styringsgruppen for UiB Læringslab
  • Programkomité for den årlige nasjonale digitaliseringskonferansen
  • Programkomité for det årlige barneuniversitetet
  • Arbeidsgruppen for revisjon av UiBs studiekvalitetssystem
  • Arbeidsgruppen for studiestart og velkomstuken (2021-2022)

Pinar Heggernes er vara for rektor i:

  • Universtitetsstyret
  • Arbeidsmiljøutvalget

Som prorektor er Heggernes medlem av følgende styrer:

  • SLATE
  • Utdanning i Bergen (leder)