Academic Interests
Comparative Planetology, Planetary Dynamics, Exoplanet Systems, Planetary and Geophysics
Research Topics
- Formation and evolution of planets
- Formation and evolution of (exo-)planetary systems
- Cratering chronology, cratering processes, planetary dynamics
- Remote sensing of the Earth and planets
- Potential field data interpretation
Teaching
- GEO-AST3410 Planetary Sciences/Planetologi
- GEO-AST4410 Planetary Sciences/Planetologi
- GEO4630 Geodynamics (2010-2017)
- GEO9630 Geodynamics (2010-2017)
Higher education and employment history
Education
2005 Dr. rer. nat. (PhD) Free University of Berlin, Germany
Thesis: Major Aspects of the Chronostratigraphy and Geologic Evolutionary History of Mars
1999 Diplom in Geophysics, Institute for Geophysics, University of Kiel, Germany
Employment
2017- Professor, University of Oslo, Department of Geosciences, Centre for Earth Evolution and Dynamics (CEED)
2016- Director of the Norwegian Research School for Dynamics and Evolution of Earth and Planets (DEEP)
2013- Team Leader: Earth and Beyond/Comparative Planetology, Center for Earth Evolution and Dynamics
2014-2017 Associate Professor, University of Oslo, Centre for Earth Evolution and Dynamics
2009-2013 Researcher, University of Oslo, Centre for Earth Evolution and Dynamics, and Physics of Geological Processes
2007-2009 Post-doctoral research fellow at the Norwegian Geological Survey, Trondheim
2005-2006 Post-doctoral research fellow, Free University Berlin, Institute for Geosciences
Appointments
- Co-I, Interior working groups Co-Lead, ESA – Ariel Science Team
- Norwegian representative and Co-I, ESA – PLATO Consortium
- Member of the European Space Agency's ExoMars Rover Science Operations Working Group (RSOWG)
- Member, ESA – NASA Mars Sample Return Science Planning Group (MSPG, Part 1; 2019)
- Member, International Mars Sample Return Objectives/Samples Team (iMOST; 2018)
- EGU Division President of Planetary and Solar System Sciences (2017 - 2021)
- Member of the European Space Agency's Solar System Exploration Working Group (SSEWG; 2017 - 2020)
- Member of the ExoMars 2018/2020 Landing Site Selection Working Group (LSSWG; 2014 - 2019)