Academic interests
Hei! I am currently a fixed-term Researcher (August 2023 - May 2025) at the Natural History Museum in Oslo, Norway. I am contributing to research and instructive workshops as part of the "Biodiversity Digital Twin project," focusing on data and information science of biodiversity data. Prior to this (July 2022 - June 2023), I was a Visiting Assistant Professor at Oberlin College in Oberlin, Ohio (US), where I taught mycology (field- and quantitative-based) and general biology lectures & labs, and contributed to undergraduate student research. Please check out my professional website to learn more about my research and teaching experiences (see also below).
Background
Topics
Global change (climate, nitrogen, CO2, O3, teaching)
Ecology (conservation, community, ecosystems, invasion, landscape, macro-, phenology, teaching)
Data science & analytics (obtaining, wrangling (formatting & processing), managing, and analysing data)
Mycology (conservation, ecology, global change, identification (mushrooms, root tips, molecular), invasion, fungaria, mycorrhizae, teaching, wood-decay)
Observational data (citizen science, herbarium/fungaria collections, meta-databases, open-access)
R (for data wrangling, statistical analyses, scripting, teaching)
Statistical analyses (distributional modelling, experimental design, multivariate analyses, mixed effects models, projections, regression techniques, spatial analyses)
Molecular data & processing (DNA extraction, High Throughput Sequencing, Sanger sequencing and (T)RFLP)
Field work (arboretum, experimental design, global change, natural lands, productivity, respiration, restoration)
Employment and affiliations
Researcher (fixed-term), Natural History Museum (Naturhistorisk Museum), University of Oslo, Norway, Aug. 2023 – May 2025 (100% position; allocated to research and workshops)
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Visiting Assistant Professor of Biology – Field Ecology, Oberlin College & Conservatory, Ohio, US, Jul. 2022 – (100% position; fully allocated to teaching)
Research Assistant Professor, Michigan Technological University (MTU), College of Forest Resources and Environmental Science, Houghton, Michigan, US, Feb. 2021 – Mar. 2022 (honorary)
Researcher (Remote), University of Oslo, Norway, Apr. – Aug. 2021 (80% position; fully allocated to research)
Researcher, SLU Swedish Species Information Centre (SLU Artdatabanken), Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences (SLU), Uppsala, Sweden, Mar. 2019 – Mar. 2021 (100% position; fully allocated to research)
Guest researcher, University of Oslo, Norway, Jan. 2017 – Jul. 2020 (honorary)
Researcher, University of Oslo, Department of Biosciences, Norway, Sep. – Dec. 2018 (80% position; fully allocated to research)
Postdoctoral Researcher, Swiss Fed. Research Inst. WSL, Birmensdorf, Switzerland, Jan. 2017 – Jun. 2018
Visiting Scholar, University of Cambridge, United Kingdom, Mar. 2017 – Mar. 2018 (honorary)
Postdoctoral Researcher, University of Oslo, Department of Biosciences, Norway, Oct. 2013 – Dec. 2016
Instructor, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Liberal Arts Department, Illinois, US, Jan. 2013 – Oct. 2013 (part-time position; fully allocated to teaching)
Research Associate, Chicago Botanic Garden, Glencoe, Illinois, US, Aug. 2012 – Oct. 2013 (honorary)
Instructor, Northeastern Illinois University, Biology Department, Chicago, Illinois, US, May 2010 – Aug. 2013 (full- to part-time position; fully allocated to teaching)
Associate Lecturer, University of Wisconsin – Madison, Dept. of Botany, Wisconsin, US, Jan. – May 2010 (part-time position; fully allocated to teaching)
Research Assistant, The Field Museum, Botany Department, Chicago, Illinois, US, Oct. 2009 – Dec. 2011 (part-time position; fully allocated to research)
Research Associate, The Field Museum, Botany Department, Chicago, Illinois, US, Sept. 2009 – Oct. 2013 (honorary)