 I was born in Drammen in 1974, which is the only time I ever visited. If people ask where I'm from, I don't really know what to say. My father is from Pakistan and my mother is from Alta in Finnmark. I have lived in a number of places: Åros, Løken (Høland), Ellingsrudåsen (Oslo), Alta, Askim, Langhus, Tromsø, Oslo, Bergen, Vancouver and Nottingham. My dialect is from the South-East but my home town is Tromsø where I lived from 1991 to 2006 with only a few exceptions. I now live in Oslo. Photo by Inger Haapasaari  Photo by Zafar Anjum |  Studies I started my Philosophy undergraduate studies in Tromsø in 1993, before studying some Latin in Oslo and Logic in Bergen. After this I moved back to Tromsø to do my graduate studies in Philosophy and in 1999 I got my Cand. Philol. degree. My dissertation was on the logic of conditionals, and I took this research further in my doctorate dissertation. I spent 2002 in Vancouver, at Simon Fraser University, and in 2005 I defended my dissertation 'Our Conditional World - A critique of the formal logical approach' in Tromsø. This work was funded by the Research Council of Norway (NFR) and their FRIHUM funding scheme (for independent basic research within the humanities). Post-studies After this I got a 3 year postdoctoral research grant, also from NFR's FRIHUM funding scheme. I spent two years at the University of Nottingham, working with Professor Stephen Mumford on dispositions and causation from 2007 to 2009. Together we wrote a book and a number of articles on the topic. We also developed a larger 4-year research project together, Causation in Science (CauSci), which got funding from FRIHUM and started up at Norwegian University of Life Sciences (UMB) at Ås in January 2011. |