Vigdis Vandvik#
| Membership Number: | 7544 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | ECOLOGY AND EVOLUTION |
| Elected: | 2026 |
| Main Country of Residence: | NORWAY |
| Homepage(s): | |
| ORCID: | 0000-0003-4651-4798 |
| Bluesky: | @vvandvik.bsky.social |
| Facebook: | https://www.facebook.com/vigdis.vandvik |
| Linkedin: | https://www.linkedin.com/in/vigdis-vandvik-285692133/ |
| Publication Link: | https://scholar.google.no/citations?hl=en&user=-GmHH6cAAAAJ&view_op=list_works |
Present and Previous Positions
- 2022 Member, Council on Ethics for the Norwegian Government Pension Fund Global
- 2020 Centre Leader, CeSAM Centre for Sustainable Area Management, UIB
- 2017 Senior Researcher, Bjerknes Centre for Climate Research, Bergen, Norway
- 2008 Full Professo, Department of Biology, UIB
- 2014 - 2020 Centre Leader, bioCEED Centre of Excellence in Biology Education, UIB
- 2011 - 2015 Visiting Professor, Chinese Academy of Sciences, IMHE, Chengdu, China
- 2007 - 2008 Associate Professor, Department of Biology, UIB
- 2005 - 2006 Post-Doctoral Fellow, Department of Botany, UIB
- 2002 - 2004 Research Council of Norway Post-Doctoral Fellow, UIB/ University of Michigan, USA
- 1997 - 2002 Research Council of Norway Doctoral Fellow, UIB / UiO
- 1996 - 2001 Maternity leaves for a total of 35 months
Fields of Scholarship
- Student-active research
- Global change ecology
- Plant ecology
- Ecological assessment and synthesis
- Biodiversity and ecosystem functioning
- Functional ecology
- Open science and fair science practice
Honours and Awards
- 2025 BONNEVIE PRIZE for promoting biology in science and society (https://www.bio.no/bonnevieprisen-sp-1829)
- 2023 Shortlisted for Nokut's Ærepris - honorary prize for contributions to excellence in higher education (https://www.nokut.no
)
- 2023 Excellent Teaching Practitioner (ETP) and member of the Pedagogical Academy, Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences, University of Bergen (UiB)
- 2021 Member, Det Kongelige Norske Videnskabers Selskab Akademi
- 2019 Member, Norges Tekniske Videnskapsakademi
- 2016 Member, Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters
- 2022 Olav Thon Foundation Award for Excellence in Education (https://olavthonstiftelsen.no)
- 2021 Science Communication Priz – Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences, UiB
- 2021 Shortlisted for Naturviterprisen for promoting the natural sciences in society (https://www.naturviterne.no/naturviterprisen)
