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 predictive infrastructure for understanding future climate and ecological risk.

My primary goal is improving the accuracy and fidelity of open-source land-surface models. Together with a global network of collaborators, I help develop and coordinate the Community Land Model (CLM), of which I am a co-chair, the global demographic vegetation model FATES and the Norwegian Earth System Model (NorESM).