Natural Products and Marine Bioresource Development

• Qualitative and quantitative analysis of high value natural products from marine sources, particularly focused on polyphenols and pigments in seaweeds and seagrasses
• Chemical analysis of marine deep-sea materials collected in Norway
• Bioprospecting and search for novel compounds
• Chemical ecology, biosystematics studies and interdisciplinary applications

Monica Jordheim´s main research interests are to enhance scientific knowledge and application value of various natural products. Jordheim has over twenty years of experience in quantification and identification of natural products, including full molecular elucidation.

Because of the structural diversity, characterization of natural products requires an integrated analytical approach including optimized extraction techniques, multiple steps of chromatography, High Resolutions Mass spectrometry (HRMS) and high field NMR analysis.

Jordheim is the:

• Vice Dean for Education (2025-2029) at the Faculty of Science and Technology
• Leader of Jordheim Research Group (https://www.instagram.com/jordheimresearchmnp/)

Group Members Jordheim Research Group:

Postdoctoral researchers:

• Liaqat Zeb (SEAS, Horizon 2020 -Marie Skłodowska-Curie grant agreement No 101034309)
• Le Ba Vinh (SEAS, Horizon 2020 -Marie Skłodowska-Curie grant agreement No 101034309) 

PhD-students:

• Angeliki Barouti (UiB, interdisciplinary Lars Herfindal | University of Bergen (uib.no)
• Zeljana Pavlovic (uib.no) (UiB, Educational Research: CoChem project, with Anja Møgelvang Jacobsen (HVL and Dep. Chem. UiB), Sehoya Cotner (SERC, UIB))
• Deisy Viviana Sarmiento Garzori (Partner: Arctic Feed AS)

MSc-students:

• Emilie Fjeldberg Taule (UiB, with Jarl Underhaug)
• Gaute Eliassen Hamre (UiB and HI; with Rita Hannisdal)
• Maryna Razapova (UiB and HI; with Rita Hannisdal and Rosa Escobar)
• Thea Elise Mehus (UiB, with PhD  Le Ba Vinh)
• Laura Sypalyte (UiB, with Kjersti Hasle Enerstvedt | UiB)

Jordheim is currently the Vice Dean of Education at the NT faculty (2025-2029).

B.Sc. and M.Sc.-projects:

Organic analytical projects within bioprospecting and marine bioresource development (seaweeds (harvested and farmed), seagrasses, aquatic angiosperms, deep sea materials). Severel of the projects have industrial partners. 

Courses:

KJEM235 https://www.uib.no/emne/KJEM235    (10 ECTS)

Objectives and Content

The course addresses analysis of organic compounds using spectroscopic methods as infrared (IR), ultraviolet-visible (UV-Vis) and nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) spectroscopy, as well as mass spectrometry (MS). The course concentrates on interpretation of data, and the focus will be to understand and to utilize data from NMR and MS.