I am educated in mass spectrometry and organic chemistry from the University of Oslo, Norway, were I startet in 1992 and I am currently employed as a professor in chemistry at Norwegian University Life Sciences in Ås, and a member in the Bioanalytical research team and research group chemistry. My research is combining modern chemical analysis techniques for various types of organic compounds in e.g. different food products. For this research, I am applying modern 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 and a LC-LTQ XL Linear Ion Trap mass spectrometer (Thermo), 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), in organic spectroscopy (KJM311) and Introduction to biotechnology and chemistry (BIO101).