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The Kjendseth Lab team at NMBU

Principal investigator

Åsmund Røhr Kjendseth

Åsmund Røhr Kjendseth

Head of Education (Pro-Dean), Section Leader Chemistry, and Associate Professor of Biophysical Chemistry at NMBU.

Faculty of Chemistry, Biotechnology and Food Science · Christian Magnus Falsens vei 18, 1433 Ås

Current team

Karl Elliott Sewell Araya

Postdoctoral fellow

Catalysis and spectroscopy of copper enzymes.

Eirin Landsem Dalleywater

PhD candidate

Mechanistic studies of LPMOs and redox partners.

Eirik Sørhus

MSc student

Biophysical chemistry projects on enzyme engineering.

Alumni highlights

  • Andrea Englund (PhD 2024) – Engineer, Department of Pharmacy, University of Oslo.
  • Gustavo de Almeida Santos (Postdoc 2020–2022) – Engineer at PEP, KBM, NMBU.
  • Ingvild Isaksen (PhD 2019) – Researcher, Norwegian Defence Research Establishment (FFI).
  • Bastien Bissaro (Postdoc 2016–2018) – Senior researcher, INRAE, Marseille.

We have supervised 11 MSc students as main supervisor and contributed to multiple PhD projects as co-supervisor.