CV

Here’s a PDF version of my CV:

Employment

Current employment

2015–: Research Professor (Forsker I), NORCE Research & Bjerknes Centre for Climate Research (BCCR), Bergen

Project management

  • ACACIA Horizon Europe (2024–) | Role: Principal Investigator (PI) | Budget: €7 million
  • CONFER Horizon 2020 (2020–24) | Role: PI | Budget: €7 million
  • Climate Futures, Norwegian centre for research-based innovation | Roles: Director (2020–23), Chief scientist (2023–) | Budget: €18 million
  • CATER schools programme | Roles: PI (2023–25), Lecturer (2025–) | Budget: €1.2 million
  • Seasonal Forecasting Engine (2017–2021) | Role: PI | Budget: €1.4 million
  • more

Past employment

  • 2013–25: Co-founder of Suncurves AS
  • 2022–25: Adjunct researcher (20%): Chr. Michelsen Institute (CMI), Bergen
  • 2020–21: Researcher (20%), Norwegian Meteorological Institute
  • 2018–20: Adjunct Professor (Professor II), Centre for Climate and Energy Transformation (CET), University of Bergen
  • 2014–15: Senior researcher (Forsker II) at Uni Research (now part of NORCE) & BCCR
  • 2011–14: Senior researcher/developer at StormGeo
  • 2010: Head of the research group for global and regional climate projections at Uni Research & BCCR
  • 2007–10: Postdoctoral researcher, Uni Research & BCCR
  • 2003–07: PhD student, Geophysical Institute (GFI), University of Bergen & BCCR
  • 2000–03: Programmer, ICEsoft AS (later acquired by WindRiver), Bergen
  • 1999–2000: Programmer, PMSC (later acquired by CSC), Bergen

Committees and boards

  • 2024–: Member of the WMO Research Board’s Task Team on Early Warnings for All (TT-EW4All)
  • 2022–: Member of the national reference group for Horizon Europe Cluster 5: Climate, Energy and Mobility
  • 2021–22: Member of the national reference group for Horizon Europe Cluster 6: Food, Bioeconomy, Natural Resources, Agriculture and Environment
  • 2019–: Member of the advisory boards of the Horizon 2020 projects FOCUS-Africa and DOWN2EARTH
  • 2017–2019: Member of the steering committee of SNAP – the Stratospheric Network for the Assessment of Predictability. SNAP is a SPARC (Stratosphere-troposphere Processes And their Role in Climate) network, and SPARC is a core project of the World Climate Research Programme (WCRP).
  • 2016: Member of the programme committee for the 4th Nordic Conference on Climate Change Adaptation in Bergen
  • 2015–16: Board member of the Norwegian Geophysical Union

Reviewing

  • 2014–19 and for the IPY-THORPEX special edition in 2011: Associate editor of the Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society
  • Reviewer for (amongst other journals): Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences, Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society, Journal of Climate, Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres, Climate Dynamics, Geophysical Research Letters, Tellus A, Atmospheric Science Letters, and Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society
  • Proposal and project reviewer for the European Commission (Horizon 2020), the European Research Council (ERC), the US National Science Foundation, and NERC (UK)

Education

  • PhD in meteorology, Geophysical Institute, University of Bergen, Norway, 2007. Thesis: Extreme winds in the Nordic Seas: polar lows and Arctic fronts in a changing climate
  • M.Sc. in applied mathematics (plasma dynamics), Dept. of Mathematics, University of Bergen, Norway, 1997. Thesis: Stability of a tokamak in the presence of a resistive wall
  • First year of technical studies at the INSA Toulouse, France, 1992–1993