I am educated in mass spectrometry and organic chemistry from the University of Oslo, Norway. I am currently employed as a professor at the Faculty of  Chemistry, biotechnology and food science (KBM) at Norwegian University Life Sciences in Ås. I started at NMBU in 1992 so there have been some years here at Ås. My research is combining modern chemical analysis techniques for various types of organic compounds in e.g. different food products. For this research work, I am applying modern analysis techniques including high-performance liquid chromatography and gas chromatography coupled to mass spectrometry and other relevant detectors.

The instrumentation I mainly use is a GC-Orbitrap from Thermo, a GC-sectorinstrument with EBE geometry from Waters  and a LC-MS/MS instrument (also from Thermo) of the type linear ion trap, in addition to a GC-FID, Headspace GC-FID and a HPLC-UV/RI.

I am teaching two MS-courses (KJM313 and KJM410) in mass spectrometry, one at master and the other at PhD level. I am also responsible for a course in chromatography (KJM310) at master level. In addition I have some lectures in applied analytical chemistry (KJM314) and  in organic spectroscopy (KJM311).