I am a Research Professor in terrestrial systems modeling at the CICERO Centre for International Climate Research. in Oslo, Norway. I am interested in developing Earth system models as predictive infrastructure for understanding future climate and ecological risk.

My work focuses on improving the accuracy and fidelity of open-source land-surface models, in particular the Community Land Model (CLM), of which I am a co-chair, and the global demographic vegetation model FATES. I work with the Norwegian Earth System Model (NorESM), as well as a global network of collaborators on projects across terrestrial system science focused on interactions between vegetation and the climate system.