Contact

 UiT – The Arctic University of Norway

	Bente Evjen Schøning Administrative coordinator Email: epinor@uit.no Phone:+47 776208836/+47 97562393
	Torkjel M. Sandanger Scientific Leader Email: torkjel.sandanger@uit.no

NTNU, The Norwegian University of Science and Technology

	May Karin Dyrendahl Administrative contact person Email: may.k.dyrendahl@ntnu.no
	Tom Ivar Lund Nilsen Scientific contact person (nestleder) Email: tom.nilsen@ntnu.no
	Johan Håkon Bjørngaard Vara

The University of Bergen

	Trond Riise Scientific contact person Email: Trond.Riise@uib.no
	Daniel Gundersen  Administrative contact person Email: daniel.gundersen@uib.no
	Anne Kjersti Daltveit Vara

The University of Oslo

	Ester Mæland Administrative contact person Email:ester.maland@medisin.uio.no
	Per Nafstad Scientific contact person Email: per.nafstad@medisin.uio.no
	Magne Thoresen Scientific contact person Email: magne.thoresen@medisin.uio.no

National Institute of Occupational Health, Oslo

Karl-Christian Nordby Scientific contact person Email: karl.c.nordby@stami.no

Norwegian Institute of Public Health, Oslo

Magne Nylenna Scientific contact person Email:magne.nylenna@fhi.no

The Cancer Registry of Norway

Trude Robsahm Scientific contact person Email: trude.robsahm@kreftregisteret.no

Presentations of the student representatives

EPINOR has four student representatives, and it is about time that they are properly introduced to the EPINOR network.

Atle Austnes Kongsvold (NTNU)

I have a bachelor’s and a master’s degree in human movement science from NTNU in Trondheim. For my master’s, I conducted a validation study of objective measurements of physical activity. Since I completed my master’s in 2016, I have continued working with this topic, and from August 2017 to February 2019 I was co-responsible for the data collection of objective physical activity measurements in The Trøndelag Health Study, where we collected data of approximately 38,000 individuals. I will be analysing these data during my PhD, that I started in September this year, at the Department of Public Health and Nursing at NTNU. The main goal is to identify determinants of physical activity – why are some people active, while others are not? I feel a lot of ownership to the data material and I look forward to work with it. In my spare time, I like to go for a run, and I’m also a fan of climbing.

Dagrun Slettebø Daltveit (UiB)

I am a statistician and a PhD candidate at UiB. In my project «Cancer risk in families with children with birth defects», I am studying associations between congenital birth defects and risk of cancer in children, as well as their siblings and parents. The project involves register data from four Nordic countries: Denmark, Finland, Norway and Sweden. The project is part of a larger Nordic collaboration project: “Nordic Countries Linked Birth and Cancer Registries Cohort Project”. The first paper has recently been published: Cancer risk in individuals with major birth defects: large Nordic population based case-control study among children, adolescents, and adults.

Mats Kirkeby Fjeld (UiO)

My name is Mats Fjeld and I’m a student representative from the University of Oslo. I am based at the Norwegian Institute of Public Health, where I write about physical activity and chronic pain. I have started the second half of my project and I’m looking forward to continuing in EPINOR. Wishing everyone a very Merry Christmas!

Erlend Hoftun Farbu (UiT)

I am a physiotherapist and I have a master’s degree from the University of Bergen. Before I started as a PhD student at UiT, I worked as a rope access technician in the petroleum industry and studied to become an engineer. In my PhD project, I am investigating whether working in cold environments (e.g., outdoors or at a cold store), increases the risk of chronic pain. Additionally, I am trying to find out if the weather, e.g., temperature or barometric pressure, affects pain tolerance. To study these relationships, I’m using data from the Tromsø Study.

EPINOR International Advisory Board