Structural characterization of molecules by NMR; Elucidation of structure–functional relationships; NMR metabolic profiling of samples; Bioprospecting studies.

Recent employment:

2004 – 2011 - Associate Professor, Department of Biotechnology, Faculty of Natural Sciences and Technology, Norwegian University of Science and Technology;

2011 – present – Professor, Department of Biotechnology, Faculty of Natural Sciences and Technology, Norwegian University of Science and Technology.

RESEARCH EXPERIENCE:       

Structural characterization of proteins and low molecular weight compounds using NMR;

Elucidation of structure–functional relationships within biomolecules using NMR;

NMR quantative metabolic profiling of liquids;

Statistical elaboration of the experimental data;

Elucidation of intermolecular interaction using NMR;

Structural Bioprospecting studies.

RESEARCH INTERESTS:

Biomolecular NMR, NMR metabolic profiling of liquids, Redox Biology, Proteomics, Metabolomics, Food-omics, Molecular and analytic characterization of biomolecules and processes, Bioprospecting, Statistical elaborattion of the data with the Principle Component Analysis; MALDI tof-tof mass-spectrometry.

Recent Funding:

2010-2017 - participant in the Research Council of Norway funded project “BioStruct”.

2013-2016 – partner in the EU FP7 supported KBBE collaborative research grant SUSMILK (Collaboration programm).

2014-2016 – partner in the ERA-NET (SUSFOOD) project BioSuck.