Jobs and Education

Since December 2019 I have worked as a førsteamanuensis (associate professor) in mathematical physics and differential geometry at the University of Stavanger.

Here is an overview of previous positions I have held

• Postdoctoral Fellow, September 2017 - December 2019, within the Simons Collaboration on Special Holonomy in Geometry, Analysis and Physics working with Professor Bobby Acharya at Kings College London and ICTP Trieste.

• Lagrange Fellow, September 2014 - September 2017, postdoc position at Institute Lagrange Paris, based at LPTHE Paris

• Summer Intern, Summer 2009, SINTEF Trondheim, Project: "Numerical simulations of 2d and 3d fluid dynamical systems"

• Summer Student, Summer 2008, CERN Geneva, Project: "Simulations of ATLAS 3d silicon detector"

My Education

• University of Oxford, DPhil (Phd) in Theoretical & Mathematical Physics, October 2010 - September 2014, Supervisors: Professors Xenia de la Ossa and Andre Lukas, Thesis Title: "Moduli of Heterotic SU(3)-Structure Compatifications"

• University of California at Berkeley, January 2009 - June 2009, Exchange Student, Term Paper: "On String Compactifications and Special Holonomy", supervised by Professor Ori Ganor.

• Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Civil Engineering Degree and M.Sc. in Physics & Mathematics, August 2005 - June 2010, Supervisor: Professor Jens Oluf Andersen, Thesis Title: "The Non-Perturbative Renormalization Group with Applications"