I work as professor in genetics at NMBU where my main research interests are functional and comparative genomics, genome evolution and genetic variation related to the genetic architecture of complex traits. Over the last 15 years I have devoted much of my time to the development of Centre for Integrative Genetics (CIGENE, www.cigene.no), which has grown from a small molecular biology lab to Norway's foremost SNP genotyping facility and an internationally important genomics research lab devoted to understanding mechanisms and genetic architecture underlying phenotypes. Together with our extensive national and international collaborative network, my lab has pioneered the development of high-throughput genotyping tools for several agriculture and aquaculture species and taken important roles in high-profile genome sequencing projects. I had a central role in “The International Collaboration to Sequence the Atlantic Salmon Genome (ICSASG)” intitialtive, a collaborative effort between Norway, Canada and Chile (published in Nature, 2016), and is currently having a principal role in the development of the international collaboration on Functional Annotation of All Salmonid Genomes (FAASG) (https://www.faasg.org/). I'm currently leading (or co-leading) five research projects on salmon genomics and genome biology funded by the Research Council of Norway (amounting to >100 MNOK).