Research staff

Marine and Polar Issues

  • Research Director Marine and Polar Issues
    +47 99038286
    RESEARCH INTERESTS:

    Environmental politics, civil society and development aid in Post-Soviet states; Norwegian-Russian relations and the Barents cooperation; Nagorno-Karabakh, Azerbaijani-Armenian relations.

  • Senior Researcher
    +1 6123870521
    RESEARCH INTERESTS:

    Security Studies; Security governance; Hybrid warfare/threats/gray zone conflict; Maritime security and non-state actors: Private security; Geopolitics

  • Research Professor
    +47 99796020
    RESEARCH INTERESTS:

    International fisheries management; Norway and Russia in the Barents Sea; The legal and political status of Svalbard; Russian identity.

  • PhD Research Fellow
    +47 47620029
    RESEARCH INTERESTS:

    International governance; Marine resource management; Deep-sea mining; Arctic affairs; Arctic Council

  • Research Professor
    +47 90123004
    RESEARCH INTERESTS:

    International law; Law of the Sea; International institutional law; Legitimacy in international law; International law and politics for the Polar regions; Human rights.

  • Research Professor
    +358 50 530 1665
    RESEARCH INTERESTS:

    Russian climate policy; Russian greenhouse gas emission trends; Russian energy policy; International climate negotiation process.

  • PhD Research Fellow
    +47 92518517
    RESEARCH INTERESTS:

    Environmental, climate and energy security policy; Arctic security; China’s Arctic policy; Russian security policy; Water resource management

  • Research Professor
    +47 92696167
    RESEARCH INTERESTS:

    Russian oil and gas industry; Russian climate politics; Arctic politics; Norwegian policy in the High North; Svalbard (Spitsbergen); Arctic shipping
     

  • Senior Researcher
    +47 47330349
    RESEARCH INTERESTS:

    Arctic geopolitics and international affairs; Norwegian foreign policy; Maritime boundaries and conflict; Marine resource management; Foreign policy decision-making and IR

  • Senior Researcher
    +47 47480167 / +43 699 10198737
    RESEARCH INTERESTS:

    EU Arctic policy; EU foreign and security policy; (Arctic) geopolitics; Blue economy; Fisheries/aquaculture; International law of the sea;

  • Junior Researcher
    +47 94147947
    RESEARCH INTERESTS:

    Arctic security; Geopolitics and geostrategy; Norwegian foreign policy; China in Greenland; Svalbard; Fisheries co-management in the Barents Sea; Security Studies

  • Research Professor
    +47 47478351
    RESEARCH INTERESTS:

    Global environmental governance; International organizations; Institutional effectiveness and interplay; Trade and environment; Ocean affairs; Fisheries management; Climate and energy policy; Arctic affairs; Antarctic politics; Geopolitics.

  • Research Professor
    +47 47478477
    RESEARCH INTERESTS:

    International law; Law of the Sea; Maritime delimitation; Sea-level rise; Anthropocene; Adriatic Sea law and policy; Antarctic Treaty System.

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