Employment

Current

2015–: Research Professor (Forsker I), Norwegian Research Centre (NORCE) & Bjerknes Centre for Climate Research (BCCR), Bergen
2022–: Adjunct researcher (20%): Chr. Michelsen Insitute (CMI), Bergen
2013–: Co-founder of Suncurves AS

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 and BCCR
2000–03: Programmer, ICEsoft AS (later acquired by WindRiver), Bergen
1999–2000: Programmer, PMSC (later acquired by CSC), Bergen

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

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)

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