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Until 2021 she was the head of Department of Informatics at ºÚÁϳԹÏ×ÊÔ´. She has extensive experience as a researcher and educator, as a leader of several externally funded projects and as a member of program boards and editorial committees of international scientific conferences and journals. She is active in the national research and education policy arena, as a former board member of the Research Council of Norway and one of the founders of NORA – Norwegian Artificial Intelligence Research Consortium.

She is interested in collaboration between academia, businesses and public administration; she has been a member of the resource group for digitization of Bergen Chamber of Commerce and Industry, and advisory board for the Norwegian Cognitive Center. She has played a key role in coordinating various initiatives related to interdisciplinary ICT research and interdisciplinary ICT educations at ºÚÁϳԹÏ×ÊÔ´. Heggernes has her education from ºÚÁϳԹÏ×ÊÔ´ and has had several long research stays abroad, including USA, France and Turkey. She has been a board member of the Faculty of mathematics and natural sciences, and a deputy member of the university board at ºÚÁϳԹÏ×ÊÔ´.

Pinar has been the project leader of four grants from the Research Council of Norway's FRIPRO programme:

• CLASSIS - The renaissance of graph classes - New algorithmic theory of forbidden induced subgraphs, 2016-2020.
• SCOPE - Exploiting Structure to Cope with Hard Problems, 2010-2015.
• MIST - Minimal Separators and Triangulations in Graphs - Algorithms and Applications, 2005-2009.
• Parallel and sequential methods for large scale matrix computations, 1999-2000.

She has led many bilateral mobility projects, and she has been a partner or PI in many other project grants from the Research Council of Norway, Trond Mohn Foundation, National Security Authority and EU.