Prof Dr.-Ing. Rainer Helmig, Chair of LH2 (Department of Hydromechanics and Modelling of Hydrosystems, Institute for Modelling Hydraulic and Environmental Systems, University of Stuttgart), spokesman of the Collaborative Research Centre 1313 (“Interface-Driven Multi-Field Processes in Porous Media. Flow, Transport and Deformation”) and Dean of Studies of SimTech (Cluster of Excellence) is the third person to be appointed Magne Espedal Professor by the Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences, University of Bergen. The professorship is to start on March 15th, 2019.