CSHC - Center for the Study of Human Cognition

Education
B.Sc. Psychology, II.1, 1986
University of Exeter, UK

Ph.D., 1989
University of Nottingham, UK
“Facilitation and inhibition of person identification”

Positions held
Researcher (Royal Society of London & CNRS)
Université Pierre Mendès France, Grenoble, France
1989-1990

Lecturer
Université de Savoie, France
1990-1991

Researcher (CNRS)
Université Pierre Mendès France, Grenoble & Hôpital Michallon, Grenoble
1991-1993

Postdoctoral researcher (NFR)
Psykologisk institutt, Universitetet i Oslo
1993-1995

Senior lecturer
Institutt for psykologi, Universitetet i Tromsø
1995-2003

Adjunct researcher (20%)
Geriatric Section, Psychiatric Division, University Hospital of Tromsø
2000-2003

Professor
Psykologisk institutt, Universitetet i Oslo
2003-

2007- Deputy head of department and Director of Research

Languages
English: Mother tongue
Norwegian: Fluent
French: Fluent
Italian: OK

Scientific activity
Researcher in applied and basic cognitive psychology, with projects in areas such as PTSD and cognition, literacy and cognition, seasonal rhythms in cognition, and memory for names.

Author of 25 articles in international journals, and co-author of a Routledge book.

Presented over 30 papers at international conferences, and invited research seminars in France, Britain, the Netherlands, Sweden, Bosnia, Serbia, and Guatemala.

External examiner for PhDs, in Norway, England, The Netherlands, Denmark, and France.

Editorial activity

Associate Editor of Applied Cognitive Psychology (2009- )
Associate Editor of the European Psychologist (2007-2009)
Member of the editorial board of the European Journal of Cognitive Psychology (2006-2009)
Member of the editorial board of the Journal of the Norwegian Psychological Association (2005- )
Norway’s local officer for the European Society for Cognitive Psychology (2004 - ).

Ad hoc reviewer for many journals, e.g. Memory and Cognition, Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, Journal of Traumatic Stress, Memory, Visual Cognition, British Journal of Psychology, European Journal of Cognitive Psychology, Cognitive Neuropsychology, Scandinavian Journal of Psychology.

Prizes
University of Tromsø “Young Researcher” prize, 2002.

University of Oslo, Department of Psychology’s Teaching Prize, 2005.