Experience

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  AquaGen AS

  • Norway
  • Biotechnology Research
  • 100 - 200 Employee

  • Manager of external relations and CSR

    • Mar 2020 - Present

    Supporting AquaGen’s commitment to social responsibility, through proactive stakeholder dialogue and systematic implementation into sustainable practices.

  • Senior Researcher

    • Jan 2017 - Mar 2020

    Developing new products and processes, as well as promoting innovation and implementation of research results in AquaGen’s broodstock- and egg production.

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  Instituto SINTEF do Brasil

  • Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

  • Deputy General Manager

    • Mar 2013 - May 2015
    • Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

    Worked closely with the CEO to develop the young institute of 25 employees into an independent unit, focused on the Brazilian oil and gas research market. This involved developing institute strategies, transferring governance systems and routines from SINTEF Norway to SINTEF Brazil, supporting authorities relations, stimulating scientific collaboration between Norway and Brazil, and reporting to the board, until it was decided to close Instituto SINTEF do Brasil in January 2015.

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  SINTEF Fisheries and Aquaculture

  • Senior Advisor

    • Nov 2012 - May 2015

    Evaluated and developed project opportunities for SINTEF Fisheries and aquaculture in Brazil.

  • Research Director

    • Jun 2007 - Nov 2012

    Leader of the Department of Marine Resources Technology, with overall responsibility for HSE, customer follow-up and research market development, professional development of 25 researchers, and an annual budget of around 24 mill NOK. Also a member of the management team at SINTEF Fiskeri og havbruk.

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  BioMar

  • Trondheim, Norway

  • Researcher/ Product developer

    • Feb 2001 - May 2007
    • Trondheim, Norway

    Developed feed for cod and other cold-water marine fishes. Worked in the R&D department in Trondheim and had close collaboration with key customers and international BioMar companies.

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  NTNU

  • Norway
  • Higher Education
  • 700 & Above Employee

  • Postdoctoral Researcher

    • Jan 2000 - Dec 2003

    Conducting research within the 'Muscle growth and development in young halibut' project, as well as teaching and supervising MSc students. Included a research period at University of St. Andrews, Scotland.

  • Researcher and lecturer

    • Oct 1997 - Dec 1999

    Worked within various projects and taught on undergraduate and graduate courses in aquaculture, developmental biology and fish nutrition at NTNU, University of Tromsø and University of Fisheries, Nha Trang, Vietnam.

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  NTNU

  • Trondheim, Norway

  • Research Assistant

    • Sep 1992 - Mar 1994
    • Trondheim, Norway

    Worked within the 'Egg and larval quality and digestive mechanisms in fishes' and 'Developmental biology and functional morphology in fish' projects.