Monika Strasser Englund
Monika Strasser Englund is the administration coordinator in the Department of Environmental Chemistry and Health Effects at NILU.
As administrative coordinator, Englund is responsible for all the administrative work and plays a key role in tying together the various disciplines and departments into one business. She is an active partner and facilitator, and is systematic, service-minded, responsible and proactive.
She is also an employee representative on NILU's board.
Helene Lunder Halvorsen
Dr Helene Lunder Halvorsen is a scientist at the Department of Environmental Chemistry and Health Effects and responsible for the Norwegian monitoring programme "Atmospheric contaminants" on behalf of the Norwegian Environment Agency. She is also involved in the reporting of organic contaminants under the European Monitoring and Evaluation Programme EMEP.
She has a master's degree in Organic Chemistry (MSc) and completed her PhD at the Department of Chemistry at the University of Oslo in 2023. In her PhD, she focused on regulated persistent organic pollutants (POPs) and used air samples from Norway and Europe to investigate the occurrence, distribution and sources of POPs.
During her 13 years at NILU, she has gained much experience with air sampling and analysis of organic contaminants, with a particular focus on method development and quality assurance of data.
Erik Andresen
Erik Andresen is head of the section at NILU dealing with inorganic analyses. He is educated in chemical engineering at Sofienberg Technical College. Erik started in NILU's inorganic laboratory in 1989 as a chemical technician.
Erik has knowledge and experience with all the analysis methods. In 2007, he was hired as operations manager for his department. He was then employed as an engineer. The job involved customer contact, ordering analyses and reporting the analysis results to the customers.
Erik has been involved in starting up laboratories in five different countries. The job involves quality control of the analysis results before they are sent out to customers. Erik has a lot of experience in the following fields: analyses of cations and anions using ion chromatography, pH measurements in precipitation, analyses of precipitation dust, gravimetrically determination of PM2.5 and PM10 on filters, as well as determination of NO2, SO2 and NH3 using passive samplers.
