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Assigned roles and positions at NILU Centre for Atmospheric Data

• EMEP data curation and EMEP/CCC activities

Responsibility

• Overall responsible for EMEP and GAW-WDCRG data collection, ingestion to data to repository and support
• EMEP QA/QC and annual data reports on ozone, CO, met, PM mass and inorganics
• EMEP intercalibration (technical part)
• LIMS data flow to EBAS
• EBAS maintenance (stations, labs, components, DOI, etc.) and emep/ccc web pages
• EBAS data curation and QA/QC responsible

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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.

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Tatiana Honza is a scientist at NILU in the department of Environmental Chemistry and Health Effects, with broad experience in cell-based models and toxicological testing. She spends most of her time in the laboratory, where she works with a wide range of cell types in both 2D and advanced 3D models.

She has expertise in in vitro cytotoxicity, genotoxicity, mutagenicity and carcinogenicity tests, as well as experience in assessing the risks associated with nanomaterials and chemicals. Tatiana has in-depth knowledge of in vitro methods and the use of modern analytical tools to map cell and tissue responses.

She actively contributes to projects in nanotoxicology and nanosafety, focusing on regulatory aspects, risk assessment and the development of testing strategies for safer materials.

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Dr. Alexandra Misci Hudecova is a research scientist at NILU in the department of Environmental Chemistry and Health Effects with expertise in genetic toxicology, environmental health, and cellular biology. In addition to her academic research, Alexandra has professional experience in Good Laboratory Practice (GLP), working as a Quality Assurance (QA) manager. At NILU’s Health Effects Laboratory, which operates under GLP certification, she contributes to maintaining regulatory compliance, ensuring data integrity, and upholding rigorous laboratory quality standards. This experience has reinforced her commitment to high-quality, reproducible scientific research aligned with international regulatory frameworks. Alexandra is also trained in Safe and Sustainable by Design (SSbD) principles, further supporting her commitment to responsible innovation and environmentally conscious research.

Alexandra earned her PhD studying the effects of Gentiana asclepiadea (willow gentian) extracts and silver nanoparticles on DNA damage/repair, adaptive responses, oxidative stress, antioxidant activity, and related cellular mechanisms in mammalian and human cells. Using a range of in vitro methods, she investigated oxidative DNA damage and cellular defense mechanisms, advancing knowledge on how natural compounds and nanomaterials interact with genomic stability and cellular defense systems.

Prior to joining NILU, Alexandra was a postdoctoral researcher at the Norwegian University of Life Sciences (NMBU) in Oslo. Her work focused on the impact of persistent organic pollutants (POPs) on mice, including gene expression and behavioral studies. She explored neurodevelopmental and epigenetic consequences of maternal exposure to POPs, providing insights into strain-specific responses and maternal exposure outcomes with implications for environmental risk assessment.

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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.

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Assigned roles and positions at NILU Centre for Atmospheric Data

• Coordinator for all ACTRIS DC administrative operations

Responsibility

• Project leader for ACTRIS spin off projects e.g. ENVRI-HUB NEXT (ENVRI-Hub NEXT Project – ENVRI Community) and POLARIN (POLARIN – Polar Research Infrastructure Network)
• Coordinate ACTRIS DC administrative operations: like annual reporting (cost and activity), annual plans, organising board meetings
• Manage and contribute to ACTRIS spin off projects
• Project leader in larger/many projects; and responsible for the roles that follow; delegate, maintain an overview
• Contribute to EVDC and EEA COINS projects, also strengthen link to ACTRIS DC

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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. 

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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.

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