Meet UiBs first group of SEAS fellows
The SEAS postdoctoral programme - Shaping European Research Leaders for Marine Sustainability - invites you to an open day October 7. Are you interested in what the SEAS Programme is? Or in research on marine sustainability? Come and listen to our first group of SEAS fellows introduce themselves and their research.
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This year we welcomed the first of our postdoctoral fellows. Come and hear from them as they present themselves and their projects!
Everyone is welcome! The event will be at the University Museum, Natural History Building, Museeplassen 3, use the Main entrance (front door).
Each fellow will give a short overview of their background and proposed research. Coffee breaks will allow time for mingling and asking questions.
Programme for the day
Time | Presenter | Title of presentation | Department; supervisor; co-supervisor |
| 9:00-9:15 | Amund Måge, Marine Director, UiB | Welcome and introduction of the SEAS programme | |
| Session 1 | |||
| 9:20-9:35 | Aiste Klimašauskaitė | Tracing future production in marine sustainability | Center for the Study of the Sciences and the Humanities; supervisor Mimi E. Lam; co-supervisor Ragnhild Overå |
| 9:40-9:55 | Juan Manuel Valero Rodríguez | Effect of climate change on northern fucoids | Department of Biological Sciences; supervisor team Kjersti Sjøtun & Øystein Varpe |
| 10:00-10:15 | Shreesha Sadashiva Rao | The dual transcriptomic approach to evaluate lumpfish response from Vibrio anguillarum biofilm cells. | Department of Biological Sciences; supervisor Gyri Teien Haugland; co-supervisor Duncan John Colquhoun |
| 10:20-10:40 | Coffee Break | ||
| Session 2 | |||
| 10:45-11:00 | Leila Neimane | Law and wind farms in the North and Baltic Sea | Faculty of Law; supervisor Sigrid Eskeland Schütz |
| 11:05-11:20 | Bashar Hussien Elkhorbatly | Mathematical theory of water waves | Department of Mathematics; supervisor Henrik Kalisch; co-supervisor Mostafa Bakhoday Paskyabi |
| 11:25-11:40 | Paul Dees | Beginning of a machine learning method to detect ecological regime shifts in the Northeast Atlantic | Geophysical Institute; supervisor Christoph Heinze |
| 11:45-12:45 | Lunch* | ||
| Session 3 | |||
| 12:50-13:05 | Asia Alsgaard | Reponses to Coastal Environmental Diversity in MSA and LSA coastal Harvesting Practices, Southern Cape, South Africa | Centre of Excellence on Early Sapiens Behaviour (SapienCE), Department of Archaeology, History, Cultural Studies, and Religion; supervisor Karen van Niekerk; co-supervisor team Mimi E. Lam & Carin Andersson |
| 13:10-13:25 | João Bettencourt | Norwegian Fjords in the Anthropocene | Geophysical Institute; supervisor Elin Darelius; co-supervisors Mari Myksvoll & Are Olsen |
| 13:30-13:45 | Nazar Mohamed (outgoing fellowship) | Marine aspects related to human health | Department of Clinical Medicine; supervisor Hans-Peter Marti; external co-supervisor Piotr Mateusz Mydel (working in Poland, for outgoing period) |
| 13:50-14:05 | Samaneh Mofrad (outgoing fellowship) | Improve short- and long-term weather forecasting for smart -shipping and offshore wind farms | Department of Informatics; Nello Blaser; Matthew Piggott (UK, Imperial College, for outgoing period) |
| 14:10-14:30 | Coffee Break | ||
| Session 4 | |||
| 14:35-14:50 | Mauro Passarella | Fluid-rock interactions simulating Arctic-Mid-Ocean Ridge environment. From Deep-Sea Mineral Resources formation to Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS): an experimental study | Department of Earth Science; supervisor team Rolf Birger Pedersen & Andreas Beinlich |
| 14:55-15:10 | Diego Rodríguez Hernández | Study of Natural products from deep-sea fauna of hydrothermal vents located in the Arctic and the Arctic mid-ocean ridge | Department of Chemistry; supervisor Monica Jordheim; co-supervisor Ida Helene Steen |
| 15:15-15:30 | Claudiu Eduard Nedelciu | Systemic impact assessment for the deep-sea mining sector in Norway | Department of Geography; supervisor Birgit Kopainsky |
| 15:35-15:50 | Øyvind Fiksen, Marine Dean, UiB | Final summing up |
*) Lunch is only provided for SEAS fellows and supervisors - Cafe Christie (Godt Brød Muséplassen) is open to all.
EU Cofund
The SEAS Programme is an ambitious new fellowship progamme for 37 postdocs, hosted by UiB and cofunded by the EU. The postdocs will be involved in various fields and disciplines, across a wide range of departments at UiB, all united in their interest in marine sustainability. The programme aims to integrate science, society and policy for marine sustainability.
We have recruited 14 postdocs after our first call. Call 2 is currently open, offering the further 23 positions, with a deadline of October 31st, 2022.
This project has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under the Marie Skłodowska-Curie grant agreement No 101034309.
SEAS blog & podcast
The SEAS fellows have also been busy on social media - check out their blog
