Supervisors

Here you find a list of NMBU researchers willing to act as supervisor for a MSCA postdoctoral fellow in the MSCA -PF-2026 call. The list is sorted in Life Sciences, Physical Sciences and Engineering and Social Sciences and Humanities.
Life Sciences
Professor Marina Elisabeth Aspholm

Keywords: Molecular Biology and Biophysics, bacterial spores, food safety, industry, biofilm.
Associate Professor Sabine Ferneborg

Keywords: dairy cow management, automatic milking systems, cow-calf contact, milking
Professor Siri Fjellheim

Keywords: Pooideae, adaptation and evolution, temperate grasses, cold acclimation, frost tolerance, winter survival, controlled environment experiments, genomics, transcriptomics, metabolomics, gene regulation, phylogenetics, flowering time, vernalization, photoperiodism, annual–perennial evolution, functional genomics / candidate gene analysis
Professor Torgeir R. Hvidsten

Keywords: Genomics, Bioinformatics, Comparative regulomics, Hologenomics, Gene regulation.
Professor Morten Kjos

Keywords: Microbiology, Antimicrobial resistance, antimicrobials, molecular biology, novel genetic tools, synthetic biology, bacterial cell biology, bacterial stress response.
Associate Professor Davide Porcellato

Keywords: Food Science, Microbiome, processing, technology.
Post Doctor Marie Saitou

Keywords: Population genomics, Evolutionary genomics, Genomic structural variation, Bioinformatics, Molecular Ecology.
Professor Simen Rød Sandve

Keywords: Comparative and evolutionary genomics, Genomes, evolution, gene regulation, adaptation.
Associate Professor, Daniel Straume

Keywords: Molecular microbiology, Bacteriology, antibiotics, peptidoglycan synthesis, natural transformation.
Professor Jan Vermaat

Keywords: Potential topics/projects: biodiversity interactions, resolution of environmental problems, land use.
Physical Sciences & Engineering
Professor Jorge M. Marchetti

Keywords: Biofuels, Catalysis, Modeling, Chemical Engineering, Condense Matter Physics, Biobased chemicals, algae.
Associate Associate Professor Habib Ullah P

Keywords: Computer vision and machine learning.
Associate Professor Asmamaw T. Shiferaw

Keywords: Sustainability assessment; Collaboration/relation-based procurement; Project management; Uncertainty management; Building/construction materials.
Social Sciences & Humanities
Professor Ingrid L.P. Nyborg

Keywords: Post-Conflict Police Reform, Community-Oriented Policing, Human Security and Development Studies.
Associate Professor
Erlend Dancke Sandorf

Keywords: Environmental and Resource Economics, Choice Modeling, Revealed preferences, Stated preferences, Environmental valuation, Demand estimation, Econometrics.