Current Work
Currently, I am employed in a postdoc position and affiliated to the EcoForest project, where we investigate long-term effects of modern forestry on biodiversity, microbial functions and carbon processes.
Academic interests and background
I am a mycologist with a special interest in root associated fungi and functional versiatility in fungi. I did both my BS (2012) and MSc degree (2014) at the University of Oslo. During my master I looked at the fine-scale spatial structure of the root associated fungi of the ectomycorrhiza-forming plant Bistorta vivipara. After my masters I worked a few months as a research assistant, working with fungal cultures and extracting DNA from soil samples, before I started my PhD in February 2015. I defended my PhD "Functional versatility and diversity in the plant root mycobiome" on the 5th of April 2019. Later, I have focused on fungi belonging to the class Archaeorhizomycetes in Norway, using long-read metabarcoding, as well as various projects involving microbial communities in forests and alpine ecosystems.