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Projects

Here, you will find an overview of the main research projects that I have been involved in in the recent past.

Research Interests

Food System Transformations

  • Dietary behavioral change
  • Community-Supported Agriculture
  • SURE Farm project and other resilience studies in food systems in the global north and south
  • Food security outcomes in agricultural systems models
  • Synergies and trade-offs between food system outcomes

Other Sustainability Transformations

  • Developing theoretically grounded causal maps to examine and improve policy narratives about global challenges
  • Circular economy, bio-based economy
  • Human-water dynamics
  • CHANGE project
  • WorldTrans project
  • Project "Mapping Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) Interlinkages for Effective Policy Making"
  • SEAS programme
  • GREEN HEAT project
  • NEW WATER WAYS project
  • Project "Co-Evolution of Business Strategies in material and construction industries and public policies"

Exploring System Dynamics Methods

  • Collaborative quality assessment of simulation-based interactive learning environments
  • Consideration of justice in SD models and the SD modeling process
  • The Qualitative Systems Exploration Model (QSEM)
  • Developing understanding how model structure drives model behavior
  • Co-production of causal loop diagrams based on feedback stories
  • Improvement of dynamic decision making
  • Designing and using simulators to facilitate learning

Participatory System Dynamics

  • Adapting group model building scripts into online workshops
  • Using participatory system dynamics modeling to address complex conservation problems
  • Behavior change and collective action in nexus governance
  • Adapting participatory SD to non-conventional target audiences

Public health

  • Development of reporting guidelines for the use of systems approaches in health research
  • Co-Create project
  • Adoption of fruits and vegetable consumption
  • Anticipatory action for Cholera outbreaks
  • Digital prosthetics services

List of Funded Projects

  1. The Research Council of Norway. Project “MatMakt. Exploring the implications of power dynamics for food system change and sustainability outcomes across food, environment, health and climate.” Work package leader. (2026-2029).
  2. European Food Safety Authority (EFSA). Project “Enacting CHANGE: Co-creating system-level strategies for effective use of NAMs in regulatory toxicology.” (2026-2028).
  3. Evidence-Based Toxicology Collaboration (EBTC) and the European Food Safety Authority (EFSA). Collaboration to Harmonise the Assessment of Next Generation Evidence (CHANGE). (2024-2026).
  4. Swiss National Science Foundation. Project “Mapping Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) Interlinkages for Effective Policy Making”. (2023-2026).
  5. EU, Horizon Europe. WorldTrans – Transparent Assessments for Real People. Work Package Co-Leader. (2023-2026).
  6. The Research Council of Norway. SYNAGRI: Developing synergies between the bioeconomy and regional food systems for a sustainable future. Work Package Leader. (2021-2024).
  7. EU, Horizon 2020. Shaping European Research Leaders for Marine Sustainability (SEAS) programme. (2022-2024).
  8. Norwegian Cancer Society. Applying a system dynamics lens to adoption, implementation and impact of school based primary prevention for health behaviour change. Co-principal Investigator. (2022-2024).
  9. European Economic Area (EEA) Financial Mechanism 2014-2021. GREEN HEAT – towards collaborative local decarbonization. Work Package Leader. (2021-2024).
  10. The Research Council of Norway. NEW WATER WAYS -Towards water sensitive and climate adapted Nordic cities. Project Partner. (2017-2021).
  11. International Livestock Research Institute. Setting Priorities to Address the Research Gaps Between Agricultural Systems Analysis and Food Security Outcomes in Low- and Middle-income Countries. Co-principal Investigator. (2018).
  12. EU, Horizon 2020. Confronting Obesity: Co-creating policy with youth (Co-Create). Task Leader. (2018-2023).
  13. Forsterkningsmidler, The Research Council of Norway. Towards Sustainable and Resilient Farming Systems in Norway: Impact of Scenarios for Agriculture in Europe. Principal Investigator. (2018).
  14. EU, Horizon 2020. Towards SUstainable and REsilient EU FARMing systems (SURE-Farm). Task Leader. (2017-2021).
  15. ETH Zurich World Food System Center. Assessing the role of organic value chains in enhancing food system resilience. Co-investigator. (2017-2021).
  16. Swiss National Science Foundation. Co-Evolution of Business Strategies in material and construction industries and public policies. (2017-2020).
  17. Swiss National Science Foundation. Sustainable and healthy diets: Trade-offs and synergies. Co-principal Investigator. (2016-2018).
  18. Peder Sather Center for Advanced Studies, UC Berkeley. Knowledge analysis in coupled social-ecological systems. A pilot study in smallholder farmer communities in Zambia. Co-principal Investigator. (2014-2015).
  19. Swiss National Science Foundation. Environmental-economic models for evaluating the sustainability of the Swiss agri-food system. Co-principal Investigator. (2013-2016).
  20. Norwegian Research Council. Simulation based tools for linking knowledge with action to improve and maintain food security in Africa. Principal Investigator. (2012-2017).