Pinar Heggernes

Pinar Heggernes (born 1969) is a Turkish-born Norwegian computer scientist known for her research on graph algorithms, sparse matrix computations, and parameterized complexity. Until July 2025, she was the deputy rector of the University of Bergen, 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 University of Bergen. She is also a member of the board of directors of the Research Council of Norway, appointed for the period 2019–2022.