As a professor and Director of the National Center for Optics, Vision, and Eye Health, and leader of the Norwegian Network for Vision and Stroke (NorVIS), I am dedicated to research, education, and dissemination related to the importance of optimising vision and interdiciplinary collaboration, particularly in older adults. Vision health is brain health, and is crucial for learning, performing meaningful activities and quality of life.
Responsibilities
- Director of National Centre for Optics, vision and eye healthLeader Norwegian Vision in Stroke (NorVIS) network synogslagnett.no
- Campus Kongsberg representative in the USN research group USN EldreForsk
- Deputy member USN board
- Member of USN Research and Innovation Committee
- Editorial board member BMC Health Services Research and TVST: Translational Vision Science & Technology
Competences
Areas of Interest:
- Vision and Brain
- Vision, light and aging of visual functions
- Visual ergonomics
- Knowledge translation & Interdisciplinary collaboration
- Vison problems & Vision rehabilitation
- Vision, sensory loss and coping,
- Visual perception and perception of contrast and movement.
Teaching Areas:
- Vision and stroke
- Vision, light and aging
- Interdisciplinary knowledge development and evidence based practice
- Sensory loss and vision rehabilitation
- Visual science and optometry,
- MSc/MPhil and PhD supervision
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