Education:
Dr.Scient., University of Oslo, 1991.
Field of Expertise:
- Nanocarbon: structure and properties of carbon nanotubes, nanocones and nanocarbon composite materials
- Magnetism and magnetic materials: magentic nanoparticles , magnetic colloids and ferrofluids, magnetic aggregation and magnetic separation, magnetocaloric materials
- Complex liquids: structure of polymer solution and liquid crystals, ferrofluids
- Experimental techniques; optical and electron microscopy, X-ray and neutron scattering, scanning probe microscopy, magnetometry
Research and Academic Activities:
- Member of the Physics Department staff since 1993
- Adjunct Professor, University of oslo (2007-)
- Board member of Condensed Division of the Norwegian Physical Society (2003-2006)
- Editor of Physica Scripta (1995-2000)
- Member of the Norwegian and the European Physical Societies
- Management Committee member COST Action CA15107 – MultiComp (2016-)
- Project manager for several Research Council of Norway funded projects
- Peer-review work for various physical/material science journals
- Co-organizer of the Geilo ASI schools and other conferences