Born:                          1956
Present position:     Professor, MI Lab director
Degrees:                    MD, PhD [dr. med.]

Education

• 1992. PhD in Medicine [dr. med.], NTNU, Trondheim, Norway. Thesis: “NMR spectroscopy of cerebral ischemia and reperfusion in rat”
• 1984. Medical Doctor, University of Bergen.

Work experience

2007 -              Director of medical imaging centre (SFI) “MI Lab” 
1998 -              Professor in MR, NTNU, Trondheim, Norway
 2006 - 07        Dean for research, Faculty of Medicine, NTNU
2005 - 05        Head of Department of Circulation and Medical Imaging, NTNU
2002 - 05        Vice-head of Department of Circulation and Medical Imaging, NTNU
1991 - 97        Research scientist, Sintef, Trondheim, Norway
1988 - 91        Research fellowship, the Research Council of Norway
1985 - 87        Hospital physician, Harstad and Trondheim, Norway

Special assignments 

• Research leader, Department of Medical Imaging, St. Olavs Hospital 
• Leader of “Norwegian Research School in Medical Imaging” (MedIm).
• Leader of MR Core Facility at NTNU/St. Olavs Hospital 
• Norwegian contact person for Medical Imaging in the Preparatory phase of the ESFRI infrastructure “Euro-BioImaging”.
• Norwegian contact person for Medical Imaging in the ESFRI infrastructure EATRIS
• Leader of “Whole animal imaging network” in the national FUGE technology platform in Molecular Imaging (NorMIC)
• NTNU contact person for European Technology Platform in Nanomedicine.
• Member of National User Committee for the PET Centre in Oslo
• Appointed by European Science Foundation to be main author of a Science Policy Briefing on “Medical Imaging for Improved Patient Care” (2007)  

Main Research Interest

• Clinical and preclinical application of new functional and molecular MR methods for information about physiology and organ function in brain, heart and cancer research.
• Multi-functional and multi-modal nanoparticles for imaging and image guided drug delivery.
• Image guidance in regenerative medicine.