Pinar Heggernes (born 1969) is a Turkish-born Norwegian computer scientist known for her research on

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computations, and

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. She is the deputy rector of the

University of Bergen The University of Bergen ( no, Universitetet i Bergen, ) is a research-intensive state university located in Bergen, Norway. As of 2019, the university has over 4,000 employees and 18,000 students. It was established by an act of parliament in 194 ...

, elected together with rector Margareth Hagen for the period 2021 - 2025. Until August 2021, she was the head of the Department of Informatics at the

. She is also a member of the board of directors of the

Research Council of Norway The Research Council (also the Research Council of Norway; no, Norges forskningsråd) is a Norwegian government agency that funds research and innovation projects. On behalf of the Government, the Research Council invests NOK 11,9 billion (2021) ...

, appointed for the period 2019-2022.

Education and career

Heggernes was born in 1969 in

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. She was educated at the University of Bergen, earning bachelor's and master's degrees there in 1990 and 1992, and completing her Ph.D. there in 1996. Her dissertation, ''Partitioning and Ordering Graphs for Sparse Matrix Computations'', was supervised by Bengt Aspvall. After working at a research laboratory in Norway, and then as a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Bergen, she became a faculty member in informatics in 2001, and head of the department in 2018. She has also been a visiting professor at the

University of Oregon The University of Oregon (UO, U of O or Oregon) is a public research university in Eugene, Oregon. Founded in 1876, the institution is well known for its strong ties to the sports apparel and marketing firm Nike, Inc, and its co-founder, billion ...

, at

Boğaziçi University Boğaziçi University ( tr, Boğaziçi Üniversitesi), also known as Bosphorus University, is a major research university in Istanbul, Turkey. Its main campus is located on the European side of the Bosphorus strait. It has six faculties and tw ...

in Istanbul, and at the

University of Primorska University of Primorska ( Slovenian ''Univerza na Primorskem'', Italian ''Università del Litorale'') is by age and size the third university in Slovenia. It is located in Koper, Izola, and Portorož and is named for the Slovenian Littoral reg ...

in Slovenia. In 2021, she was elected deputy rector of the University of Bergen.Deputy rector Pinar Heggernes
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Recognition

Heggernes was elected to the

Norwegian Academy of Technological Sciences The Norwegian Academy of Technological Sciences ( no, Norges Tekniske Vitenskapsakademi, NTVA) is a learned society based in Trondheim, Norway. Founded in 1955, the academy has about 500 members. It is a member of the International Council of Ac ...

in 2014.

Personal

Heggernes is also an amateur competitor in outdoor running events.

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Heggernes's blog on running * {{DEFAULTSORT:Heggernes, Pinar 1969 births Living people Norwegian computer scientists Turkish women computer scientists Turkish computer scientists University of Bergen alumni Academic staff of the University of Bergen

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