I am currently responsible for three research projects:

• Life-course changes in body fatness and subsequent cancer risk (2022-2025)
• Repeated measurements of organic pollutants, body weight, lipids and hormons in realtion to risk of type 2 diabetes mellitus. (2016-)
• Teenage pregnancies in the republic of Georgia (2021-2024)

These projects are based on questionnaire data and blood samples from the Norwegian Women and Cancer study, the Tromsø study and the Georgian national birth registry.

I am also involved in several other  research projects in related fields.

 I am the main supervisor of 2 PhD-students, 1 postdoc and co-supervisor of 3 PhD-students.

Law of the Sea, International and National Environmental Law, Public International Law

Berit Kristoffersen is an Associate Professor in Political Science the Department of Social Sciences at UiT and Arctic Centre for Sustainable Energy (ARC). She leads the research project RENEW (connected to Smart Senja) and UiT sustainability comittee. As a political geographer by training, her research contributions have included work on state space, critical geopolitics, climate change and energy politics. Her work has been published in journal such as Geoforum, Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers, Environment and Planning A: Economy and Space, and Arctic Review on Law and Politics.

Her post-doc (finished 2017) focused on resource and tourism practices and PhD (2014) and master (2007) thesis' on the territorial, political and representational geographies of 'opening up' the Norwegian Arctic for oil and gas activities, themes that are still ongoing research subjects. At present her research is also focused on developing theory and methods for interdisciplinary and social sciences approaches to energy transition and supply-side climate policy perspectives.

Michaela Aschan is Professor in Fisheries Biology and Management at UiT, the Arctic University of Norway, and has a Ph.D. in Ecology from the University of Helsinki, including additional training in statistics, geography and philosophy. She has served as the Vice Dan with responsibility for science activities at the Faculty of Biosciences, Fisheries and Economics. This involves science strategic planning at the UiT level, overall responsibility for the PhD-education programme at the Faculty as a central role in the Faculty lead. This experience has given her leadership opportunities and training as well as the opportunity to assemble multidisciplinary teams for solving new scientific challenges. Her research covers a wide range of scientific areas including stock assessment and population biology of shellfish; fish and benthic communities; sampling design; bio-economic aspects of fisheries regulation and management; and climate induced changes in the marine ecosystem. She has wide experience from national projects, EU projects, other international projects as well as ICES Working Group leadership and participation and Marine Stewardship Council (MSC) certification.

Ongoing projects:

ClimeFish Coordinator => https://climefish.eu/

FarFish WP leader =>https://www.farfish.eu/

BSEco and BarentsRisk Norwegian Research Council

News: https://www.euronews.com/2019/04/29/fish-are-growing-faster-with-the-changing-climate

My PhD project aims to assess the prospects of a new industry based on blue and green hydrogen export in Arctic Norway from a socio-technical perspective. Some of the themes that will be examined in detail are niche-regime interactions, multi-regime interactions and phasing out of regime incumbents.