I was born in Drammen, Norway in 1974, but never lived there. I now live in Ås, next to the beautiful NMBU campus, with my husband and our two dogs.
I started my Philosophy undergraduate studies in Tromsø in 1993, before studying some Latin in Oslo and Logic in Bergen. After this I moved back to Tromsø to do my graduate studies in Philosophy and in 1999 I got my Cand. Philol. degree. My dissertation was on the logic of conditionals, and I took this research further in my doctorate dissertation. I spent 2002 in Vancouver, at Simon Fraser University, and in 2005 I defended my dissertation ‘Our Conditional World – A critique of the formal logical approach’ in Tromsø. This work was funded by the Research Council of Norway (NFR) and their FRIPRO funding scheme (for independent basic research within the humanities, FRIHUM).
After this I got a 3 year postdoctoral research grant, also from NFR’s FRIPRO funding scheme. I spent two years at the University of Nottingham, working with Professor Stephen Mumford on dispositions and causation from 2007 to 2009. Together we developed a new theory of causation.
In 2022 I got funding from FRIPRO NFR for a 4-year research project, Causation in Science (CauSci), hosted by the School of Economics and Business, at Norwegian University of Life Sciences (NMBU) from January 2011. In May 2014 I became Research Fellow and in December 2014 my new research project, Causation, Complexity and Evidence in Health Sciences (CauseHealth), got funded by FRIPRO and started up in the spring 2015 at NMBU. In 2018, Elena Rocca and I established NMBU Centre for Applied Philosophy of Science. In October 2018, we entered a 3 year collaboration agreement with WHO’s Uppsala Monitoring Centre for drug safety, CauseHealth Risk and Safety. Between 2022 and 2025, I was 50% affilliated with the Faculty of Environmental Sciences and Natural Resource Management (MINA) where I taught the course ‘Interdisciplinarity and Expert Disagreement on Sustainability’ for all their Master students.
In September 2024 I was promoted to full Research Professor, and I am now happily doing lots of teaching at NMBU from my office at NMBU School of Economics and Business.
