Competence profile:

Experience from several Norwegian renowned research labs. Successful acquisition from biomedical research found. Broad contact net in biomedical sciences, national and international Section leader at section for immunology Norwegian Veterinary Institute (NVI), through turbulent times. Now reorganized to Animal Health Research group. Research leader and project leader training courses. Arranging and re-establishing external and internal research seminars and conferences.

Education:

1998-2003     PhD Studies at the Institute of Immunology (IMMI), Rikshospitalet, and Department of Physiology, University of Oslo, Norway.
Project Title:  “Introduction of Foreign DNA in vivo: Methods and Applications”.
Supervisors: M. Harboe, H. Wiker, T. Lea, T. Lømo, I. Mathiesen. Candidatus Scientiarum (Master) in biochemistry, Institute of Biochemistry, University of Oslo, Norway. Project Title: “En undersøkelse over membranassosiering og karboksylering av protrombin i endoplasmatisk retikulum.”. Supervisor: L. Helgeland Candidatus Magistratus (Batchelor), University of Oslo, Norway. 

Practical Experience

2017-             Head of Animal Health Research Group

2013-2017     Researcher and acting head of Section for Immunology, NVI.

2010-2013     Researcher, Department of Animal Health. NVI.

                      Projects: - Adaptive immunity in ruminants with focus on Mycobacterium paratuberculosis.
- T-mmune: Protection against intracellular pathogens: T-cell based immunity and vaccine in Salmon. (Contributing).

2003-2009     Post doctor, Prof Ludvig Sollids lab, later Centre for Immunregulation, Immunological Institute (IMMI), Rikshospitalet, University of Oslo.
Projects: - The hunt for epitopes eliciting type 1 diabetes: A reverse immunogenetics approach. Financed by:
                        The Norwegian Funding for Health and Rehabilitation.
                        Novo Nordisk fonden.
                        Odd Fellow Medical and Scientific Research Foundation. Consumables.
                        -In situ studies of gluten induced immune activation in coeliac disease - Testing new therapeutic modalities.
                        University of Oslo, post doctor salary
                      - Defining new T-cell epitopes in DQ2 and DQ8 celiac disease patients.

Webmaster, Institute of Immunology, University of Oslo
PhD student at IGRI/IMMI, Supervisor Prof Morten Harboe, Prof Terje Lømo, scientist and COE Iacob Mathiesen.
Project: Introduction of Foreign DNA in vivo: Methods and Applications.
Scientist, Defence Research Department (FFI), Kjeller, Norway.
Project:  Stress and winter warfare. Head of project; A. Bøyum

1996-1997     Research assistant, FFI, Kjeller, Norway.
Project: Winter warfare and biological stress. Head of project; A. Bøyum