Lise Øvreås#
| Membership Number: | 6229 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | ECOLOGY AND EVOLUTION |
| Elected: | 2022 |
| Main Country of Residence: | NORWAY |
| Homepage(s): | https://www.uib.no/en/persons/Lise.%C3%98vre%C3%A5s |
| ORCID: | 0000-0003-2242-6021 |
| Twitter: | @vreas_lise |
Present and Previous Positions
- 2022 - President of the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters
- 2019 - 2022 Academic director, Ocean Sustainability Bergen, University of Bergen (UiB), Norway
- 2016 Professor II, UNIS, University Center at Svalbard
- 2015 - 2016 Vice-Head of Department for Biology, University of Bergen
- 2012 - 2013 Visiting Fulbright Arctic Chair at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, California, USA
- 2010 - 2014 Dean of Research of Faculty of Mathematic and Natural Sciences, University of Bergen
- 2007 - 2011 Group leader Geomicrobiology CoE
- 2007- present Professor in Geomicrobiology, Dept. of Biology, University of Bergen
- 2006 - 2007 Associate professor in Geomicrobiology, Dept. of Biology, University of Bergen
- 1997 - 2005 Research scientists on EU and NFR funded project, Unifob/University of Bergen
- 1993 - 1996 Ph.D. student, Dept of microbiology, University of Bergen.
Fields of Scholarship
- Genetic diversity and population dynamics of microorganisms in their natural environments, population ecology and community ecology
- Regulation of biodiversity and adaptability of a microbial community to external stress factors
- Interdisciplinary approaches in the interface of microbiology, ecology, mathematics, and informatics and computer science.
- Microbial ecologist interested and microbial diversity and abundance
- Effect of climate change in Arctic ecosystems
- Ecology of terrestrial ecosystems and deep sea hydrothermal vents, diversity along gradients, salinity and pH gradients
Honours and Awards
- 2020 Nansen Minneforelsening. October 2020 Antibiotika resistens og jakten på nye medisiner
- AWARDS
- 2012 Fulbright Arctic Chair
- 2002 Poster prize at 8th symposium on Aquatic Microbial Ecology 25-30 October in Messina, Italy
- 2002 T.Ellingsen Memory award. (DYNAL and SINTEF kjemi)
- 1996 Prize for the best oral presentation “Use of DGGE (Denaturant Gradient Gel Electrophoresis) for monitoring bacterial population dynamics in environmental samples”. at the 5th international symposium on bacterial genetics and ecology. BAGECO 5, Nafplion, Greece. May 1996.
- 1993 Poster prize “Use of molecular techniques to study bacterial community DNA isolated from soil samples” at the 4th international symposium on bacterial genetics and ecology. Bageco 4, Wageningen
- 2014 Member of the Norwegian Academy of Technological Sciences
- 2013 Member of the Norwegian Academy of Sciences and Letters
- 2022 President of the Norwegian Academy of Sciences and Letters
- Member of Royal Society working group in Biological Diversity (UK)
- Member of National Center for Ecology Analyses and Syntheses (NCEAS) working group on Microbial Biodiversity (USA)
- 2012 Norway's Ambassador for International Society for Microbial Ecology
