Academic interests
Associate Professor in Molecular Nutrition.
I have focused my research on genetic regulation of diet induced metabolic diseases and on the health benefits of exercise physiology. I study how diet and genes impacts chronic diseases such as non-alcoholic fatty liver disease, insulin resistance and obesity. I have recently also become interested in why the genetic regulation of a variety of metabolic disease varies between the sexes.
Education
2013: PhD in Molecular nutrition in the laboratory of Professor Christian A. Drevon. Faculty of Medicine, Department of Nutrition, University of Oslo, Norway.
2008: M.Sc: Molecular nutrition. Faculty of Medicine, Department of Nutrition, University of Oslo, Norway.
Teaching
MED1100 (termin 1)
MED2200/ERN2200 (termin 1)
ERN2300
ERN3100
Employment
2021 - present: Associate professor in molecular nutrition, Faculty of Medicine, Department of Nutrition and The Norwegian Transgenic Centre, University of Oslo, Norway
2018 - 2021: Researcher in the laboratory of Associate Professor Knut Tomas Dalen, Faculty of Medicine, Department of Nutrition and The Norwegian Transgenic Centre, University of Oslo, Norway
2015-2018: Postdoctoral fellow in the laboratory of Professor Aldons Jake Lusis, Department of Medicine, Division of Cardiology, University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), USA
2014-2015: Postdoctoral fellow in the laboratory of Professor Christian A. Drevon. Faculty of Medicine, Department of Nutrition, UiO, Norway
Cooperation
- Professor Aldons Jake Lusis, Mouse genetics and Non-Alcoholic Fatty Liver Disease (NAFLD), UCLA, USA
- Professor Andrea Hevener, Molecular mechanisms of Exercise and NAFLD, UCLA, USA
- Professor Emeritus Christian A. Drevon, Exercise, Hepatic lipids and NAFLD, University of Oslo, Norway
- Associate Professor Knut Tomas Dalen, Effects of perilipins in metabolic diseases, University of Oslo, Norway