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.
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)