Academic interests
I am an ecohydrologist who studies the impact of climate change on the Arctic-Boreal region. The northernmost part of our planet is warming much faster than the rest of the world, which is causing an increase in disturbances such as extreme precipitation, loss of snow cover, droughts, and permafrost thaw. I focus on these changes since they affect the uptake of carbon by plants and its release from soils, potentially triggering a release of greenhouse gases that can act as a feedback on the global climate system.
In my work, I draw from a long experience in the field – from Svalbard to Greenland, Scandinavia and northeast Siberia – to derive new insights from satellite data and to advance model development. This has given me a broad understanding of the functioning of the carbon cycle in northern ecosystems, which I draw on as a regular columnist in the Norwegian newspaper Klassekampen, and in my role as an Associate Editor at the AGU journal JGR: Biogeosciences.
Keywords: Arctic-Boreal Carbon Cycle, Ecohydrology, Vegetation dynamics, Permafrost carbon, Methane and CO2 fluxes, Climate Feedbacks, Extreme weather events
Background
Employment
- 2023 - now: Senior Researcher, University of Oslo, Norway
- 2018 – 2023: Associate Professor, Lund University, Sweden
- 2018 – 2023: Researcher, University of Oslo, Norway
- 2017 – 2018: Researcher, University of Tromsø, Norway
- 2016: Researcher, Nibio, Ås, Norway
- 2013 – 2015: Researcher, Lund University, Sweden
- 2011 – 2012: Postdoc, Lund University, Sweden
- 2006 – 2010: PhD student, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Invited Positions
- 2017 – 2018: Guest researcher, University of Oslo, Norway
- 2014 – 2015: Visiting Researcher, Aarhus University, Denmark
- 2012 – 2013: Visiting Researcher, Bioforsk, Ås, Norway