Job description

I am currently working as a Postdoctoral research fellow within the SECURE project, an interdisciplinary project that aims to develop knowledge on novel sustainable marine raw materials to enable food security for a growing population. In my postdoc project, I’ll be studying the potential health effects of consuming low trophic marine resources such as phytoplankton, zooplankton, and kelp, particularly regarding obesity, diabetes, and cardiovascular diseases.

Prior to my posdoc I worked as a scientific advisor for the Nansen Legacy project and before that I completed  PhD in marine biotechnology. In my PhD i focused on the health effects of the novel marine oil "calanus oil", which is derived from the zooplankton Calanus finmarchicus. I focused on the health effects related to obesity, insulin resistance & diabetes, and cardiovascular diseases. My PhD was both at the Seafood Science Group at The Norwegian College of Fishery Science of The Faculty of Biosciences, Fisheries and Economics. As well as at the Cardiovascular Research Group at The Department of Medical Biology of the Faculty of Health Sciences.