Nikolai Østgaard

Bio

Address:	Departments of Physics and Technology, University of Bergen
	Allegt 55, N-5007 Bergen, Norway
Telephone:	(+47) 5558 2794
Cell:	(+47) 4727 0653
Fax:	(+47) 5558 9440
E-mail:	Nikolai.Ostgaard@ift.uib.no
URL:	http://www.ift.uib.no/~nikost

Basic Module in Pedagogic at the University of Bergen, Norway, Fall-2005 - Spring-2006

Post. Doc. at the University of Oslo, Norway, incl. one year stay at NASA/GSFC,USA, Jan-2000 - Dec-2001

Doct. Scient. Degree (PhD), University of Bergen, Dec-1999

Cand. Scient. Degree (MD), University of Bergen, Mar-1996

Cand. Mag. Degree (BD), University of Bergen, 1995

Sep-2004 - present:	Professor at the University of Bergen, Norway
Aug-2004 - Sep-2004:	Associate Professor at the University of Bergen, Norway
Jan-2004 - Jan-2007:	Associate Professor II, at the University of Oslo, Norway
Aug-2001 - Aug-2004:	Assistant Research Physicist, Space Sciences Laboratory, University of California, Berkeley
Apr-1996 - Dec-1996:	Research Assistant at the space science group, Dept. of Physics, University of Bergen

Jun-1998:	Group Achievement Award from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)
	to the Polar PIXIE Team, Global Geospace Science (GGS) Investigation Team.
Dec-1997:	The Outstanding Student Paper Award for a poster at AGU fall meeting in San Francisco 1997.

2007 - present:	Project Manager of the Norwegian IPY-ICESTAR
2007 - present:	Project Manager of the Norwegian Cluster studies
2004 - present:	Co-Investigator on the Atmosphere-Space-Interaction Monitor (ASIM)
	and Project Manager for the Norwegian contribution for the X-ray detector on ASIM
2004 - present:	Co-Investigator on YFF project 'Space Research and Technology Development Program'
2004 - present:	Co-leader on Interhemispherical Conjugacy Effects in Solar-Terrestrial and Aeronomy Research (ICESTAR)
2003 - present:	Co-Investigator on a study of soft X rays from the Earth's cusp by Chandra
2001 - present:	Co-Investigator on the Polar Ionospheric X-ray Imaging Experiment (PIXIE) on the Polar spacecraft

Mar-2007 - 2009:	Editor for Space Science in Geophysical Research Letter
Jan-2007:	Member of the Scientific Organizing Commitee for 2 symposium of KuaFu
May-2006 - present:	National representative - SCOSTEP (Scientific Comitee on Solar-Terrestrial Physics)
Aug-2005 - present:	National representative in the IHY (Intrenational Heliospheric Year) program
Mar-2005	Working group for the Norwegian Space Center for the new Norwegian Space Program

Sep-2007 - present:	Advisor for PhD student Karl Magnus Laundal, University of Bergen
Jan-2006 - present:	Advisor for PhD student Kristian Snekvik, University of Bergen
Jan-2005 - present:	Co-advisor for PhD student Marita Sørbø, University of Bergen
Jan-2004 - Feb-2007:	Co-advisor for PhD student Camilla Sætre, University of Bergen
Jan-2002 - Mar-2005:	Co-advisor for PhD student Arne Åsnes, University of Bergen

2007 :	4 Master student finished
Currently:	Advisor for 2 Master students

2005 - present:	PHYS 251 (UiB): Det nære verdensrommet (The near space), Introductionary course in SPace Science
2005 - 2007:	PHYS 111 (UiB): Mekanikk 1 (Mechanics)
2004 - 2007:	FYS 5610 (UiO): Magnetosfærefysikk og substormprosesser, A 10-day-course
	on substorms and magnetic storms for researchers, Andøya, Norway

Reviewing scientific papers for JGR, GRL, AGU monograph, JASTP and Ann. Geophys.

Reviewing NRA proposals for NASA and for NSF

Apr-2006:	Organizing special session at the EGU meeting, Vienna, Austria
Jun-2004:	Organizing breakout session at the GEM meeting, Snowmass, Colorado
May-2004:	Organizing special session at the AGU spring meeting, Montreal, Canada
Jun-2000 - Aug-2001:	Visitor at Laboratory for Extraterrestrial Physics, Goddard Space Flight Center,
	NASA, Greenbelt, Maryland, USA (part of Post. Doc)
May-1998 - Aug-1998:	Visitor at Lockheed Martin Missiles and Space Company Advanced Technology Center,
	Palo Alto, California, USA (Part of Ph. D. program)

American Geophysical Union

Last Updated: June 2005 by Nikolai Østgaard
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