Knowledge areas

• Ecosystem ecology and ecosystem based management
• Environmental and sustainability science
• Socio-ecological systems
• The Arctic
• Marine ecosystems and coastal ecology

Key qualifications

• Inter-disciplinary syntheses of socio-ecological systems
• Quantitative analyses of complex and large datasets
• Spatial statistical analyses
• Ecosystem modeling
• Theoretical and spatial ecology

Education

• 1999: Doctor of Science in Biology
• 1994: Cand. Scient (Master) in Biology
• 1990: Cand. Mag. (Bachelor) in Biology

Experience

• Visiting research fellow at the Resilience Center, Stockholm University (2021-2022)
• Co-lead of the Arctic Council (AMAP and CAFF) assessment “Climate change impacts on Arctic ecosystems and associated climate feedbacks”  (2021-2025)
• Member of ICES WGIBAR -Working Group on the Integrated Assessments of the Barents Sea since 2018.
• Visiting research fellow at the National Center for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis (NCEAS), University of California Santa Barbara (2015-16)
• Leader of the national expert group on seabirds and marine ecosystems (2013-2014) 
• Leader of the Fram Centre research Flagship MIKON -Environmental Impact of Industrial Development in the North (2014-2019)
• Leader of NINA's Strategic Institute Program on Coastal Ecology (2006-2015)
• Leader of the evaluation of the marine environmental monitoring program on Svalbard and Jan Mayen (2013-2014)
• Leader of the AMINOR research school at the Fram Centre (2011-2012)
• Project leader of five research projects funded by the Norwegian Research Council
• Project leader of several research projects funded by the Norwegian Environmental Agency 

Worked in

• Senior Researcher at NINA since 2007
• Researcher at NINA 1999-2007
• Professor II at the University of Tromsø (2008-2012)
• Adjunct Professor at the University of Tromsø (2006-2007)

Publications:

• Publications in CRIStin
• Other publications