Experience

University of Agder (UiA)

• Norway
• Higher Education
• 700 & Above Employee

• Principal Investigator EATWELL project

  • Dec 2021 - Present

• Associate Professor

  • Apr 2020 - Present

  Social Anthropologist of Food (systems) and Health at the Department of Nutrition and Public Health

• Assistant Professor

  • Apr 2019 - Apr 2020

  - Teaching qualitative methods in development and planning to Bachelor and Master Students- Organizing student study trips to Sri Lanka- Conducting research consultancies on integrated food and agricultural systems

• Instructor

  • Jan 2019 - Apr 2020

  Online instruction in qualitative research methods.



indepent research

• Postdoctoral Research Scholar

  • Jul 2017 - Apr 2020



Haystack Consulting

• Belgium
• Market Research
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Sensory Research Consultant

  • Sep 2018 - Jan 2019



Ghent University

• Belgium
• Higher Education
• 700 & Above Employee

• Postdoctoral Researcher

  • Feb 2018 - Oct 2018

  10% voluntary postdoctoral research associate at the Centre for Anthropological Research on Affect and Materiality 10% voluntary postdoctoral research associate at the Centre for Anthropological Research on Affect and Materiality



The Norwegian ministry of agriculture and food

• Oslo Area, Norway

• Intern, temporary position

  • Nov 2017 - Mar 2018

  Consultant as an intern at the Norwegian Ministry of Agriculture and Food. - Contributing to the development of a strategy for the development of organic agriculture in Norway. - Organization of the participatory process involving relevant stakeholders of the food chain. - Analysis of the Austrian and French strategies in developing new industries based in agriculture. Consultant as an intern at the Norwegian Ministry of Agriculture and Food. - Contributing to the development of a strategy for the development of organic agriculture in Norway. - Organization of the participatory process involving relevant stakeholders of the food chain. - Analysis of the Austrian and French strategies in developing new industries based in agriculture.



University of Oslo (UiO)

• Norway
• Education Administration Programs
• 700 & Above Employee

• Postdoctoral Research Fellow

  • Dec 2013 - Jun 2017

  - Postdoctoral researcher at the ERC-funded Overheating project, headed by Thomas Hylland Eriksen, where I researched the complex entanglement of food, health, and well-being in the context of globalizing Sri Lanka. - Organization of ERC and Wenner-Gren funded food conference - 6-month fieldwork in Sri Lanka. - 3-month visiting research stay at Columbia University. - Postdoctoral researcher at the ERC-funded Overheating project, headed by Thomas Hylland Eriksen, where I researched the complex entanglement of food, health, and well-being in the context of globalizing Sri Lanka. - Organization of ERC and Wenner-Gren funded food conference - 6-month fieldwork in Sri Lanka. - 3-month visiting research stay at Columbia University.



Columbia University

• United States
• Higher Education
• 700 & Above Employee

• Visiting Researcher

  • Oct 2015 - Dec 2015



Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Center Leo Apostel

• Administrator

  • Apr 2013 - Oct 2013



Direct Dialogue Fundraising (DDF)

• Belgium
• Fundraising
• 1 - 100 Employee

• regional assistant coordinator and recruiter

  • Dec 2006 - Nov 2007



Practical Action South Asia

• Consultant

  • May 2006 - Oct 2006