Field site at Risør fjord in Norway.
About me
I'm an evolutionary ecologist interested in how organisms respond to environmental change, including how adaptation to environments in the past influences contemporary plastic responses (both physiological and behavioural) and future environmental adaptation. I combine experiments with molecular and bioinformatic techniques to investigate the genomic basis and spatial scale of local adaptation, firmly based in empirical ecology and evolutionary theory. I believe that the answers to these questions are critical for predicting the persistence of species in the face of environmental change and for managing populations effectively to lower the potential for extinctions and losses of biodiversity.
I'm currently a James S. McDonnell Foundation Postdoctoral Fellow at the Centre for Ecological and Evolutionary Synthesis at the University of Oslo and Researcher II (adjunct) at the Centre for Coastal Research at the University of Agder, where I'm working to bridge the gap between genomics and modelling to better understand how natural populations respond to environmental disturbance. I completed my PhD on the genomic basis and spatial scale of variation in thermal responses of Atlantic cod at Dalhousie University with Dr. Jeff Hutchings.
I also lead a project investigating the role of drumming vocalizations in the Atlantic cod mating ritual and work with the Institute of Marine Research, Flødevigen to study the impact of cod body size on population productivity and ecosystem dynamics.
I'm an open science advocate and an Editorial Board member for Scientific Data.
I'm recruiting masters students through the Masters in Coastal Ecology programme at the University of Agder in southern Norway. See my research page for topic themes and feel free to get in touch if you have any questions.
I'll soon be recruiting a postdoc in machine learning and artificial intelligence for marine bioacoustics and fish communication, co-supervised with the Centre for Artificial Intelligence Research and Mechatronics Research Lab at the University of Agder. Please get in touch if interested!
I'm currently a James S. McDonnell Foundation Postdoctoral Fellow at the Centre for Ecological and Evolutionary Synthesis at the University of Oslo and Researcher II (adjunct) at the Centre for Coastal Research at the University of Agder, where I'm working to bridge the gap between genomics and modelling to better understand how natural populations respond to environmental disturbance. I completed my PhD on the genomic basis and spatial scale of variation in thermal responses of Atlantic cod at Dalhousie University with Dr. Jeff Hutchings.
I also lead a project investigating the role of drumming vocalizations in the Atlantic cod mating ritual and work with the Institute of Marine Research, Flødevigen to study the impact of cod body size on population productivity and ecosystem dynamics.
I'm an open science advocate and an Editorial Board member for Scientific Data.
I'm recruiting masters students through the Masters in Coastal Ecology programme at the University of Agder in southern Norway. See my research page for topic themes and feel free to get in touch if you have any questions.
I'll soon be recruiting a postdoc in machine learning and artificial intelligence for marine bioacoustics and fish communication, co-supervised with the Centre for Artificial Intelligence Research and Mechatronics Research Lab at the University of Agder. Please get in touch if interested!
News:
19/03/20: Our SFI working group on 'Sociality under scarcity' just released our preprint "Changes in group size during resource shifts reveal drivers of sociality across the tree of life"! I learned so much (and had so much fun!) in this collaboration.
16/03/20: We're livestreaming cod spawning from the Flødevigen Research Station! Watch along with videos of me explaining the cod mating ritual (available in English here).
13/02/20: We previewed new audio and video from our TORSKETROMMING project at the Technical Museum of Oslo for the annual Lysvandring of the Oslo Life Sciences Conference. 400 more people have heard what cod sound like!
04/02/20: Our new preprint on the "Consequences of single-locus and tightly linked genomic architectures for evolutionary responses to environmental change" is available on bioRxiv. Check out the explanatory twitter thread!
15/01/20: I presented an upcoming paper on the evolutionary significance of genomic structural variation at Evolution in Sweden. Many interesting discussions followed!
22/11/19: I accepted a Researcher II (Adjunct) position at the Centre for Coastal Research at the University of Agder! I look forward to working with students from the MSc in Coastal Ecology programme and many other wonderful colleagues.
12/11/19: We wrote an article in Aftenposten (Norway's largest newspaper) about how the cod crisis in Oslofjord-Skagerrak is due to more than just climate change. The new fishing ban offers the best chance for recovery.
09/11/19: Our symposium proposal entitled 'Genomic predictions of responses to environmental change' has been accepted for the Society of Molecular Biology & Evolution 2020 Meeting in Québec City June 28th - July 2nd!
02/11/19: My colleagues and I gave a public talk at the Norwegian National Academy of Sciences and Letters about the many threats that cod face in the Oslofjord-Skagerrak area.
21/09/19: I had a blast chatting with people about cod at the Oslo Science Expo ('Forskningstorget'). Our exhibition was called Torsk og du! ('Cod and you!') and featured the first sneak listens of our #TORSKETROMMING project.
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19/03/20: Our SFI working group on 'Sociality under scarcity' just released our preprint "Changes in group size during resource shifts reveal drivers of sociality across the tree of life"! I learned so much (and had so much fun!) in this collaboration.
16/03/20: We're livestreaming cod spawning from the Flødevigen Research Station! Watch along with videos of me explaining the cod mating ritual (available in English here).
13/02/20: We previewed new audio and video from our TORSKETROMMING project at the Technical Museum of Oslo for the annual Lysvandring of the Oslo Life Sciences Conference. 400 more people have heard what cod sound like!
04/02/20: Our new preprint on the "Consequences of single-locus and tightly linked genomic architectures for evolutionary responses to environmental change" is available on bioRxiv. Check out the explanatory twitter thread!
15/01/20: I presented an upcoming paper on the evolutionary significance of genomic structural variation at Evolution in Sweden. Many interesting discussions followed!
22/11/19: I accepted a Researcher II (Adjunct) position at the Centre for Coastal Research at the University of Agder! I look forward to working with students from the MSc in Coastal Ecology programme and many other wonderful colleagues.
12/11/19: We wrote an article in Aftenposten (Norway's largest newspaper) about how the cod crisis in Oslofjord-Skagerrak is due to more than just climate change. The new fishing ban offers the best chance for recovery.
09/11/19: Our symposium proposal entitled 'Genomic predictions of responses to environmental change' has been accepted for the Society of Molecular Biology & Evolution 2020 Meeting in Québec City June 28th - July 2nd!
02/11/19: My colleagues and I gave a public talk at the Norwegian National Academy of Sciences and Letters about the many threats that cod face in the Oslofjord-Skagerrak area.
21/09/19: I had a blast chatting with people about cod at the Oslo Science Expo ('Forskningstorget'). Our exhibition was called Torsk og du! ('Cod and you!') and featured the first sneak listens of our #TORSKETROMMING project.
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