- Preprints and peer-reviewed journal publications: Multiple preprints and peer-reviewed journal articles.
- Awards and Honors:
- The Royal Norwegian Society of Sciences and Letters' scientific award to young researchers. Awarded in 2022.
- Sverdrup Award to Young Researcher. Awarded by the Norwegian Statistical Association in 2017.
- Norwegian Computing Center's Master's Prize in Mathematics and ICT. Awarded in 2011.
- Stubban Prize (Stubbanprisen). Awarded by the Department of Mathematical Sciences, NTNU, in 2011.
Research Experience
- IMod. Partial differential equations, statistics and data: An interdisciplinary approach to data-based modelling. 2022–2028. Norwegian Research Council – Large Interdisciplinary Project. PI (team of 6 PIs). Supervising 1 PhD student and co-supervising 2 PhD students.
- Maritime Autonomous Sampling and Control (MASCOT). 2019–2025. Norwegian Research Council. Co-PI (3 main investigators). Supervising 1 PhD student and co-supervising 1 PhD student.
- Penalized Complexity-priors: A new tool to define default priors and robustify Bayesian models. 2015–2021. Norwegian Research Council. Participant. Supervised 1 PhD student.
- Subnational Under-five Mortality Estimates, 1990–2019. 2017–. Led by Jon Wakefield at University of Washington. Produced estimates in close coordination with the United Nations Inter-agency Group for Mortality Estimation (UN IGME).
Background
- Professor of Statistics
- Research Interests: Spatial and spatio-temporal modeling, Stochastic partial differential equations (SPDEs), Finite element methods and finite volume methods applied to SPDEs, Non-stationary spatial and spatio-temporal modeling, Computational statistics, INLA (Integrated Nested Laplace Approximations), Spatio-temporal estimation of demographic and health indicators