Rune Åvar Ødegård
Director of Digitalisation
+47 410 82 074
+47 63 89 80 87
Digital Technologies
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ruo@nilu.no
Rune Ødegård is the Director of Digitalisation at NILU, leading the Digital Technologies Department. He holds a MSc degree in Environmental Pollution Control Management from Heriot-Watt University in Edinburgh.
Since 1997, Ødegård has been working as an interdisciplinary researcher between environmental science and information technology, building over twenty years of experience in managing, designing, developing, and implementing environmental systems. He has taken on roles as both a participating researcher and project leader across numerous research projects, both national and international.
In 2008, Ødegård became department leader for the Digital Technologies Department, and in 2019, he was appointed Director of Digitalisation.
Rune Åvar Ødegård has 7 publications at NILU:
2025
2024
2022
User-driven Health risk Assessment Services and Innovative ADAPTation options against Threats from Heatwaves, Air Pollution, Wildfire Emission and Pollen (healthRiskADAPT)
Transformative adaptation is gaining recognition as the appropriate response to climate change as the current adaptive measures reach their limits. In addressing health risks associated with heat waves, air pollution, […]
ETC Human health and the environment (ETC HE)
The European Topic Centre on Human Health and the Environment (ETC HE) is a Consortium of 10 partners with expertise in air quality, air pollution, industrial emissions, chemicals, noise and […]
European Topic Centre on Data Integration and Digitalisation (ETC DI)
The European Topic Centre on Data Integration and Digitalisation (ETC DI) multiannual objective is to contribute to the activities of the European Environment Agency’s (EEA) by supporting the digitalisation process […]
Autonomous Multi-Format In-Situ Observation Platform for Atmospheric Carbon Dioxide and Methane Monitoring in Permafrost & Wetlands (MISO)
Climate warming is driven by increased concentrations of greenhouse gasses (GHGs) e.g., CO2 and CH4, in the atmosphere. Existing observatories are able to capture GHG information for large-scale global assessments, […]
Low Latency Air Quality Management (AirQMAN)
Existing air quality (AQ) monitoring and management (AQMS) methods and evolving modelling practices across Norwegian and European cities have achieved significant improvements of AQ but further progress is needed due […]
Engaging citizens in food diversity in cities (SmartFood)
“Grow your own food in the corridor of your building, reduce GHG (greenhouse gas) emission, the waste of food and energy and transportation costs! Improve your physical health by changing […]
Highly Accurate and Autonomous Programmable Platform for Providing Air Pollution Data Services to Drivers and the Public (HAPADS)
HAPADS is an ambitious project that will custom design and build a novel air mobile monitoring system (devices, data acquisition, analysis, and user interface), which will enable end-users (drivers, transport […]
Rune Ødegård is the Director of Digitalisation at NILU, leading the Digital Technologies Department. He holds a MSc degree in Environmental Pollution Control Management from Heriot-Watt University in Edinburgh.
Since 1997, Ødegård has been working as an interdisciplinary researcher between environmental science and information technology, building over twenty years of experience in managing, designing, developing, and implementing environmental systems. He has taken on roles as both a participating researcher and project leader across numerous research projects, both national and international.
In 2008, Ødegård became department leader for the Digital Technologies Department, and in 2019, he was appointed Director of Digitalisation.
Rune Åvar Ødegård has 7 publications at NILU:
2025
2024
2022
User-driven Health risk Assessment Services and Innovative ADAPTation options against Threats from Heatwaves, Air Pollution, Wildfire Emission and Pollen (healthRiskADAPT)
Transformative adaptation is gaining recognition as the appropriate response to climate change as the current adaptive measures reach their limits. In addressing health risks associated with heat waves, air pollution, […]
ETC Human health and the environment (ETC HE)
The European Topic Centre on Human Health and the Environment (ETC HE) is a Consortium of 10 partners with expertise in air quality, air pollution, industrial emissions, chemicals, noise and […]
European Topic Centre on Data Integration and Digitalisation (ETC DI)
The European Topic Centre on Data Integration and Digitalisation (ETC DI) multiannual objective is to contribute to the activities of the European Environment Agency’s (EEA) by supporting the digitalisation process […]
Autonomous Multi-Format In-Situ Observation Platform for Atmospheric Carbon Dioxide and Methane Monitoring in Permafrost & Wetlands (MISO)
Climate warming is driven by increased concentrations of greenhouse gasses (GHGs) e.g., CO2 and CH4, in the atmosphere. Existing observatories are able to capture GHG information for large-scale global assessments, […]
Low Latency Air Quality Management (AirQMAN)
Existing air quality (AQ) monitoring and management (AQMS) methods and evolving modelling practices across Norwegian and European cities have achieved significant improvements of AQ but further progress is needed due […]
Engaging citizens in food diversity in cities (SmartFood)
“Grow your own food in the corridor of your building, reduce GHG (greenhouse gas) emission, the waste of food and energy and transportation costs! Improve your physical health by changing […]
Highly Accurate and Autonomous Programmable Platform for Providing Air Pollution Data Services to Drivers and the Public (HAPADS)
HAPADS is an ambitious project that will custom design and build a novel air mobile monitoring system (devices, data acquisition, analysis, and user interface), which will enable end-users (drivers, transport […]