Born: 29-08-1952 in Trondheim      
           
  Nationality: Norwegian      
           
  Present position: Associate Professor
Department of Biology
Faculty of Natural Sciences and Technology
Norwegian University of Science and Technology, NTNU, Trondheim		      
 
 
           
  Experience: 2002- Associate Professor, Department of Biology, NTNU
1985- 2002: Assistant Professor, Department of Botany, NTNU
1980- 1985: Scholar, NAVF (Norwegian Research Council for
Science and the Humanities).		      
 
 
 
           
  Education: 2002: Dr. philos. NTNU
1978-1980: Cand. real. University of Trondheim (Dendrochronology)
1974-1977: Cand.mag. University of Trondheim (Chemistry and Biology)
1972-1973: Royal Norwegian Navy, working with navigation on frigates,
(KNM Trondheim and KNM Bergen).
1969-1972: Ex. artium. Trondheim Katedralskole.		      
 
 
 
 
           
  Qualifications: Constructing tree-ring chronologies and to perform dendrochronological
dating. At the laboratory a Norwegian network of conifer chronologies
have been constructed back to the early Viking age.
I am teaching students in ecology and botany.
I have been referee for several articles on dendrochronology and have
censored cand.scient. examinations.