Pinar Heggernes (born 1969) is a Turkish-born Norwegian computer scientist known for her research on graph algorithms, sparse matrix computations, and parameterized complexity.
She is also a member of the board of directors of the Research Council of Norway, appointed for the period 2019–2022.
[1] She was educated at the University of Bergen, earning bachelor's and master's degrees there in 1990 and 1992,[2] and completing her Ph.D. there in 1996.
Her dissertation, Partitioning and Ordering Graphs for Sparse Matrix Computations, was supervised by Bengt Aspvall.
[1][6] Heggernes is also an amateur competitor in outdoor running events.