Telephone: +47 976 54 820
E-mail: ingeborg.helland@nina.no
Department:
NINA akvatisk naturmangfold
Knowledge areas
Ecological effects of hydropower, ecology of freshwater fish, competitive interactions, climate change, winter ecology, ecological mechanisms of speciation, ecological modelling, EU Water Framework Directive, sea lice
Key qualifications
Freshwater ecology, renewable energy, research management, research policy
Education
- 2005 – 2008: PhD Biology, University of Oslo
- 2003 – 2004: MSc (Cand.scient.) Freshwater ecology, Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU)
- 2001 – 2001: Arctic biology studies, University Centre in Svalbard (UNIS)
- 1999 – 2002: BSc (Cand.mag.) Biology, NTNU
Experience
Positions
- 2024 -: Research Director, NINA, Område Vann og vassdrag, Trondheim
- 2019 - 2024: Research Manager, NINA Dept. of Aquatic biodiversity, Trondheim
- 2013 - 2018: Research Director, NINA Dept. of Aquatic ecolology, Trondheim
- 2011 - 2013: Researcher, NINA Dept. of Aquatic ecolology, Trondheim
- 2009 - 2011: Post.doc., NINA Dept. of Aquatic ecolology, Trondheim
- 2005 - 2008: PhD student, Leibniz-Institute of Freshwater Ecology and Inland Fisheries, Berlin, Tyskland
Other relevant professional experiences
Editorial work, reviewing and scientific committees
- 2022: Guest editor of Special Issue in Hydrobiologia (Springer Nature)
- 2019: Contributing author to the IPBES Global Assessment Report on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (Chapter 6) https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3831673
- 2018: Member of scientific committee for Nordic OIKOS conference (~ 300 international participants)
- 2016 - 2018: Associate editor of Hydrobiologia, handled > 70 scientific manuscripts
- 2014: Reviewer for The Icelandic Research Fund
- 2013: Scientific committee for PhD thesis, Institute for Arctic and Marine Biology, UiT the Arctic University of Norway
- 2008 -: Reviewer for the scientific journals: Journal of Animal Ecology, PLOS ONE, Global Change Biology, Environmental Biology of Fishes, Aquatic Ecology, Limnologia, Journal of Fish Biology, Journal of Limnology, Hydrobiologia, Ecology of Freshwater Fish, Estuarine Coastal and Shelf Science, Marine Ecology Progress Series, Ecological Indicators
Selected research projects
- 2023 - 2027: Project leader, FunkyFish Functional fish habitats in hydropower reservoirs, ENERGIX Research Council of Norway (no. 336258)
- 2018 - 2022: Project leader, HYCANOR Partnership on Sustainable Hydropower in Canada and Norway, INTPART Research Council of Norway (no. 275057)
- 2015 - 2019: Work package leader, INVAFISH Invasive freshwater fishes; dispersal vectors, impacts and management, MILJØ2015 Research Council of Norway (no. 243910)
- 2017 - 2018: Member of Executive Management Team, FME HydroCen, Norwegian Research Center for Hydropower Technology, FME Research Council of Norway (no. 257588)
- 2018: Task leader HydroFlex Increasing the value of Hydropower through increased Flexibility, H2020 EU 3.3.2 (LCE-07-2016-2017)
- 2015 - 2017: Vice director, FME CEDREN Centre for Environmental Design of Renewable Energy, FME Research Council of Norway (no. 193818)
- 2013 - 2017: Work package leader, HydroBalance Large-scale balancing and energy storage from Norwegian hydropower, ENERGIX Research Council of Norway (no. 228714)
- 2014 - 2015: Substitute project leader, FISHCON Biodiversity scenarios for fragmented landscapes; freshwater connectivity and the future of fish diversity, BiodivERsa EU ERA-net (no. 225462)
- 2014 - 2015: Substitute project leader, BiWa Biodiversity management and the Water Framework Directive under climate change, MILJØ2015 Research Council of Norway (no. 221410)
- 2013: Work package leader, FutureHydro Sustainable hydropower development in China and Norway to meet future demands, ENERGIX Research Council of Norway (no. 221674)
Languages
Norwegian (native), English (fluent), German (basic)
Worked in
Germany, Sweden, Norway
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