Lab Members & Alumni

Nicole Obren is a PhD candidate at PHAB and will use time series inference frameworks to draw inferences from paleontological and geological data. Nicole is from the Bay of Islands in New Zealand and loves spending time on or in the ocean. When she occasionally makes landfall, she enjoys a strong coffee and a book, a hike through any kind of wilderness, or just boogying down to some good music.

Yan Feng is a visiting PhD candidate from the China University of Geosciences (Wuhan). She is interested in the evolution of body size in foraminifera and selectivity during mass extinction events.

Dr Trond Reitan is a senior scientist and our resident statistician. He is currently working on occupancy models, FBD models and supporting the group on linear SDEs. Trond is trained as a physicist.

Anna Piowni-Piórewicz is a visiting post-doc from the University of Gdansk in Poland. She is a marine biologist and currently works on the mineralogy of calcifying marine organisms. Anna is also an avid diver.

Mali H. Ramsfjell is a biologist and research technician who is interested in bryozoans, conservation biology and environmental issues in Norway and globally. She is the current master of our desktop Scanning Electron Microscope with more than 10 000 images under her belt.


Lab Alumni