CV

I am Professor at the Department of Psychology at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology, and also with a 20% position, at UiT the Arctic University of Norway (100% from 2014 to 2022). After my PhD I was a research fellow at the Excellence cluster Neurocure at Charité and Humboldt University Berlin, Germany, (2010-2011) and a postdoctoral researcher at NTNU (2013-2017). I combined my undergraduate studies with working part-time as research fellow at the Kavli institute of Systems Neuroscience, NTNU, Norway.

RESEARCH VISITS / MOBILITY

2022: University of Stirling and University of Helsinki

2019: Interactive Mind Center, Århus University, Denmark.

2012: Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, TU Dresden, Germany

2006: Konrad Lorenz research station Gruenau, Austria

FELLOWSHIPS AND AWARDS

2021-2024 NORDFORSK grant (co-PI): Grappling with uncertainty in environments signaling spurious experiential decisions (GUESSED)

2017-2020 FRIMEDBIO Young researcher grant (262338/F20): Too precise or too imprecise: which parameter is gone awry in autism and psychosis

2014-2015 fellow of the “Young researcher leadership program”, hosted by UiB, Bergen

2011-2012 Crafoord Scholarship for Young researchers, spent at the Vision group and CAnMove (navigation) group, Institute of Biology, Lund University, Sweden

2008 Research grant from Det Kongelige Norske Videnskabers Selskab for equipment allowing a follow up on my Diploma thesis findings

EDUCATION

2009 PhD in Neuroscience, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway

2007 Diploma in Neuroscience, Otto-von-Guericke University Magdeburg, Germany