Academic Career Highlights

Core Skills and Career Highlights

Research, collaboration & communication: Strong collaboration, communication, writing and project management skills, resulting in 16 first-authored peer-reviewed publications, co-authored with cross-functional, international teams.
Public outreach and research impact: Collaborated with media outlets including sciencenorway.no, Nettavisen.no, Dagsavisen, Save the Children Norway and BT to cover my research. My research was also used to lobby against the statute of limitations on child abuse cases.
Public speaking: Extensive experience presenting at international and national events, including being a plenum speaker at the largest mental health conference of the Nordic countries for an audience of over 800.
Persuasive writing: Secured funding for a three-year, international research project and several other grants.
Mentoring: Mentored students (individually and in groups) on data analyses and written communication for their Psychology Bachelor and Master's thesis.
Quality assurance: Peer Reviewed ~ 30 academic research papers and provided constructive feedback to ensure quality of data analyses and coherence of research approach, arguments, and conclusions.
Event organizing: Co-organized the 2020 and 2021 UC Berkeley Beyond Academia conference - a two day event featuring around 100 PhD speakers who successfully transitioned to non-academic careers. In 2021 our small team adapted the conference to a virtual platform for the first time, attracting almost 1800 PhD students and academics worldwide. Independently organized two other on-campus events on the topic of non-academic careers for PhDs.

First-authored Journal Publications (Peer-reviewed)

Steine, Skogen, Hysing, Puigvert, Schønning & Sivertsen. «Sexual Harassment and Assault Predict Sleep Disturbances and is Partly Mediated by Nightmares: Findings from a National Survey of all University Students in Norway» Journal of Sleep Research, 30 (2021), 2021;30:e13338 .
Steine, LeWinn, Lisha, Tylavsky, Smith, Bowman, Sathyanarayana, Karr, Smith, Kobor, & Bush. «Maternal Exposure to Childhood Traumatic Events, but not Multi-Domain Psychosocial Stressors, Predict Placental Corticotrophin Releasing Hormone across Pregnancy». Social Science & Medicine, 266 (2020), 113461.
Steine, Nielsen, Porter, Krystal, Winje, Grønli, Milde, Bjorvatn, Nordhus, & Pallesen. «Predictors and Correlates of Lifetime and Persistent Non-suicidal Self-injury and Suicide Attempts among Adult Survivors of Childhood Sexual Abuse». European Journal of Psychotraumatology, 11 (2020), 1815282.
Steine, Winje, Krystal, Milde, Bjorvatn, Nordhus, Grønli & Pallesen. «Longitudinal Relationships between Perceived Social Support and Symptom Outcomes: Findings from a sample of Adult Survivors of Childhood Sexual Abuse». Child Abuse & Neglect, 107 (2020), 104566.
Steine, Bjorvatn, Winje, Grønli, Nordhus, Milde & Pallesen. "Seksuelle overgrep i barndommen og arbeidsuførhet i voksen alder– Funn fra et norsk befolkningsutvalg" («Childhood sexual abuse and work disability in adulthood: Findings from a Norwegian population Sample»). Journal of the Norwegian Psychological Association, 57 (2020), 260–27.
Steine, Bjorvatn, Winje, Grønli, Nordhus, Milde & Pallesen. "Faktorer som henger sammen med økt risiko for arbeidsuførhet blant personer utsatt for seksuelle overgrep i barndommen" («Factors associated with increased risk of work disability among adult survivors of childhood sexual abuse») . Journal of the Norwegian Psychological Association, 57 (2020), 348–359.
Steine, Skogen, Krystal, Winje, Milde, Grønli, Nordhus, Bjorvatn & Pallesen. «Insomnia symptom trajectories among adult survivors of childhood sexual abuse: A longitudinal study». Child Abuse & Neglect, 93 (2019), 263-276.
Steine, Winje, Skogen, Krystal, Milde, Bjorvatn, Nordhus, Grønli & Pallesen. «Posttraumatic symptom profiles among adult survivors of childhood sexual abuse: A longitudinal study». Child Abuse & Neglect, 67 (2017), 280-293.
Steine, Winje, Krystal, Bjorvatn, Milde, Grønli, Nordhus & Pallesen. «Cumulative childhood maltreatment and its dose-response relation with adult symptomatology: Findings in a sample of adult survivors of sexual abuse». Child Abuse & Neglect, 65 (2017), 99-111.
Steine, Zayats, Stansberg, Pallesen, Mrdalj, Håvik, Haavik, Milde, Soule, Skrede, Murison, Krystal & Grønli (2017). «Implication of NOTCH1 gene in comorbid anxiety and depression symptoms among sexual abuse victims». Translational Psychiatry, 6, e9 77 doi:10.1038tp.2016.248.
Steine, Winje, Nordhus, Milde, Bjorvatn, Grønli & Pallesen. «Hvorfor tar det så lang tid å fortelle om seksuelle overgrep?» («Why does it take such a long time for sexual abuse survivors to disclose their experiences?»). Journal of the Norwegian Psychological Association, 2 (2017), 204-208.
Steine, Winje, Nordhus, Milde, Bjorvatn, Grønli & Pallesen. «Langvarig taushet om seksuelle overgrep. Prediktorer og korrelater hos voksne som opplevde seksuelle overgrep som barn» («Delayed disclosure of sexual abuse: Predictors and correlates in a sample of adult survivors of childhood sexual abuse»). Journal of the Norwegian Psychological Association, 11 (2016) 888-899.
Steine, Harvey, Krystal, Milde, Grønli, Bjorvatn, Nordhus, Eid & Pallesen. «Sleep disturbances in sexual abuse victims: A systematic review». Sleep Medicine Reviews, 16 (2012), 15-25.
Steine, Krystal, Nordhus, Bjorvatn, Harvey, Eid, Grønli, Milde & Pallesen. «Insomnia, nightmare frequency and nightmare distress in victims of sexual abuse. The role of abuse characteristics and perceived social support». Journal of Interpersonal Violence, 27 (2012), 1827-1843.
Steine, Bjorvatn, Grønli, Nordhus, Milde, Mrdalj & Pallesen. «Forekomsten av seksuelle overgrep i den generelle befolkningen i Norge» («The prevalence of sexual abuse in a representative population sample in Norway»). Journal of the Norwegian Psychological Association, 49 (2012), 951-957.

Other publications

Aschbacher, Hagan, Steine, Rivera, Cole, Baccarella, Epel, Lieberman & Bush. «Adversity in early life and pregnancy are immunologically distinct from total life adversity: macrophage-associated phenotypes in women exposed to interpersonal violence». Translational psychiatry, 11 (2021), 1, 1-9.
Flo, Steine, Blågstad, Grønli, Pallesen & Portas. «Transient changes in frontal alpha asymmetry as a measure of emotional and physical distress during sleep». Brain Research,1367 (2011), 234-249.