Maria Magdalena Holmgren
Maria Magdalena Holmgren joined department for Environmental Impacts and Sustainability in June 2024 and is project leader for the EU project CE-RISE from October 1, 2024. In addition, she will develop strategies for innovation and sustainable transition.
Maria Magdalena Holmgren, MSc, has solid experience in innovation management, sustainable transition and organisational development in roles as senior project manager, strategist, and manager. She has led projects on behalf of both business and the public sector. She has +15 years of experience in international project management in industrial contexts, within and outside Europe.
Magdalena is a driven project manager who has initiated and implemented national and international R&D&I of high complexity and built competitive partnerships together with industry, suppliers, technical institutes, universities, and authorities. She has experience in leading innovation and transformation processes in branches of industries such as mining and minerals, cement, and concrete, building and construction, but also in the service sector; in e-health, creative industries, and ICT.
Magdalena is genuinely interested in cooperation, innovation, and resilience. She is passionate about strengthening the research and innovation capacity of organisations and industries into ability for sustainable transition while maintaining competitiveness. Critical innovation and transition metals are one of her areas of interest related to resilience.
Britt Ann Kåstad Høiskar
Dr. Britt Ann K. Høiskar holds the position of Research Director in the Department for Urban Environment and Industry at NILU. She earned her doctoral degree in physics from the University of Oslo in 1997, with a research focus on measurement of the ozone layer and ozone-depleting substances in the stratosphere from ground-based measurements.
During the period from 1997 to 2007, Høiskar served as a senior researcher at NILU. Her responsibilities included overseeing the operation and maintenance of the national system for monitoring the ozone layer and natural ultraviolet radiation (2001-2004). She was also involved in the development and management of an internet solution for presenting, quality control, and analysis of air quality data from the measurement network for air quality in Norwegian cities (2003-2006).
From 2008 to 2013, Høiskar held the position of Head of the Norwegian Asthma and Allergy Association, where she was responsible for the organization’s policies and projects related to outdoor air pollution and indoor air quality.
Since January 2014, Høiskar has been a senior researcher in the Urban and Industrial Department at NILU. In June 2017, she assumed the role of Research Director and department leader. Høiskar has led and participated in air quality assessments for several Norwegian cities. Furthermore, she is and has been involved in various research projects related to the indoor environment. She has been the chairman/board member of Norsk Innemiljøorganisasjon, which represents the Norwegian branch of ‘The International Society for Indoor Air Quality and Climate’ (www.isiaq.org). since 2009.
Shridhar Jawak
Dr. Shridhar Jawak is a Project leader/Scientist at the Climate and Environmental Research Institute NILU.
Shridhar possesses more than 15 years of research experience in Earth observation (EO) and remote sensing (RS) applications, primarily focused on the Earth’s cryosphere. He has leadership, coordination and management experience gleaned from his involvement in research infrastructure projects based in Svalbard. Dr. Jawak also served as a steering committee member and project participant in the EEA-funded Cryosphere Integrated Observatory Network on Svalbard (CRIOS) project.
Before moving to Norway, he was a project scientist at the National Centre for Polar and Ocean Research (NCPOR), Goa, India, where he was involved in EO and RS activities in polar science particularly focusing on Antarctica, Himalayas, and the Arctic. Dr. Jawak’s research interests predominantly revolve around remote sensing of the Earth’s cryosphere, with a specific focus on utilizing ground, airborne, and spaceborne sensors to discern spatiotemporal changes in the Arctic, Antarctic, and Himalayan regions.
Roles
- Project Leader for ACTRIS spin off projects e.g. ENVRIHUB NEXT and POLARIN
- Coordinator for ACTRIS DC operational activities
Responsibility
Stefan Jetschny
Stefan Jetschny holds a Ph.D. degree in geophysics from the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany. He combines more than 20 years of experience both in academic and in industry research. His main research activities incorporate application of massive, scalable, numeric algorithms to large datasets to solve applied problems, earlier in the field of subsurface earth characterization and now environmental research.
During his occupation as an assistant professor, he was contributing to and managing projects with respect to seismic modeling and inversion for near surface applications. This also included the development of open source forward and inverse finite difference modeling codes. While working for a technology driven oil and gas service provider, he developed innovative and novel marine survey geometries and strategies by exploring the full chain of geological model building, synthetic data generation and application of state-of-the-art seismic processing algorithms.
In his current role as a Machine Learning Scientist / Senior researcher at NILU, Stefan contributes to the NILU’s aspiring data science team to help apply machine leaning and AI related methods to the institute’s versatile project catalog. He is actively involved in the European Topic Center for Data integration and digitalisation (ETC DI) and coordinates the EU Horizon project FAIRiCUBE. In addition, he is the main safety representative at NILU and enjoys the voluntary work in the welfare committee.
Mona Johnsrud
Mona Johnsrud holds a Bachelor in Analytical Chemistry from Oslo College of Engineering (Oslo ingeniørhøgskole), 1982. Been with NILU since 1987.
Mona has more than 20 years’ experience in quality control/quality assurance of measurement data, including organizing, handling, processing and analysing data, and uses this experience to contribute to various NILU projects.
This includes tasks for the Norwegian National reference laboratory for air quality measurements, like training, audits, and quality control and facilitation of measurement data for ambient air quality from Norwegian cities and municipalities for reporting to EU.
Mona has also been involved with specifications, testing and user training in electronic software development projects (admin.luftkvalitet.info, AirQUIS Web).
Mona has previously served as employee representative in NILUs Board of Directors for 12 years and is since 2016 serving as a board member in the union NTL Forskningsinstitutter.