About Me

I am a medical doctor (MD) with a PhD in Medicine from the University of Bergen. My doctoral training took place at NORMENT, the Norwegian Centre of Excellence in Mental Disorders Research, under joint supervision from the University of Bergen and Yale University. During my PhD, I completed a research stay at Yale School of Medicine in the Division of Human Genetics, Department of Psychiatry. This experience enhanced my expertise in large-scale genomic analyses, phenome-wide modeling, and causal inference within international collaborative research settings.

My PhD research addressed biological and phenomic risk in mental and somatic disorders by integrating genome-wide association studies, polygenic modeling, and registry-linked population data. This work fostered my interest in the mechanisms by which genetic effects influence complex traits and in interpreting genome–phenome relationships within developmental and environmental contexts.

I am currently a postdoctoral researcher at the Norwegian Institute of Public Health, affiliated with the Centre for Fertility and Health, a Norwegian Centre of Excellence. As part of the ERC-funded BIOSFER project, I utilize large-scale population cohorts and genotyped family and trio designs to investigate genetic effects across development and generations. My research integrates statistical genetics and life-course epidemiology, with a particular focus on intergenerational genetic effects and longitudinal modeling of complex traits.

I have extensive methodological experience with large biobank resources, such as UK Biobank, All of Us, FnnGen, Million Veteran Program, and Norwegian registry-linked cohorts. I integrate genome-wide association studies, phenome-wide analyses, polygenic modeling, pleiotropy frameworks, and causal inference approaches to address questions concerning reproductive, metabolic, and psychiatric outcomes.

A central question guiding my projects is how heritability and genetic risk can be more precisely interpreted when developmental and intergenerational processes are considered. My long-term objective is to develop rigorous, population-based frameworks to understand the transmission, mediation, and expression of genetic effects across the human life course.