Jostein Mårdalen came from a position as Research Director in SINTEF Petroleum and has since Oct. 2013 been the head of Materials Science and Engineering, NTNU

Background

• Research director in SINTEF Petroleum Research, Formation Physics Department (2007-2013)
• Research Manager in SINTEF Materials and Chemistry, Manager of the research group on Surfaces and Thin Films (2004-2007)
• Project Manager for Light Metal Surface Science, a multidisciplinary 6 year, 40 MNOK, competence building project (KMB) at SINTEF and NTNU (2001-2006)
• Group manager SINTEF Materials and Chemistry, Surface science group (2000-2002)
• Teacher and course developer at SINTEF Education, Project Management  (1998 - 2013)
• Senior Scientist, SINTEF Materials Technology (1998 - 2007)
• Scientist, SINTEF Materials Technology (1995-1998)
• Scientist, SINTEF Instrumentation, (1995)
• Post Doc (NAVF/NFR) at the European synchrotron Radiation Facility (ESRF), Grenoble, France (1993-1995)
   

Specific Competence

• Materials technology
• Petroleum related rock mechanics and sub-surface petroleum technology
• Light metal surface science and technology
• Surface characterisation
• X-ray diffraction, imaging and spectroscopy
   

Generic Competence

• Management of scientific research and education
• Organisation and strategy development
• Board and steering committee work
• Research projects; development, funding and management
• Contracts and Intellectual Property Rights (IPR)
• Patenting and commercialisation of technology

Please see CV for more details.