MSc in Engineering Physics in 1987, Chalmers University of Technology, Gothenburg, Sweden. PhD in 1994, Chalmers Room Acoustics Group, Department
of Applied Acoustics, also from Chalmers University of Technology. PhD thesis: "On reverberation enhancement in auditoria".
Post doc 1995 to 1999 in the Chalmers Room Acoustics Group. Guest researcher in 1995 at the University of Waterloo, Canada, working with John Vanderkooy in the Audio Research Group on edge diffraction models.
Guest researcher in 1996, and 1997/98, in the Environmental Acoustics
Laboratory, Kobe University, Japan. Worked with Masayuki Morimoto and
Kimihiro Sakagami on the time domain formulation of the equivalent source
method. Both stays in Japan were supported by the Japan Society for the
Promotion of Science.
Professor in electroacoustics at the Department of Telecommunications,
Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Trondheim, Norway, since
1999. Sabbaticals in 2007 at Rensselaer Polytech Institute, Troy, NY, USA, working with Paul Calamia on edge diffraction modeling, in 2012-13 at the University of Reading, UK, working with Simon Chandler-Wilde and colleagues in the Waves group, and in 2017 at the University College, London, Dept. of Mathematics, working with David Hewett.
Fellow of the Acoustical Society of America. Member of the Acoustical Societies of Norway, Sweden, and Japan, the Audio Engineering Society, and the IEEE. Board member of the Acoustical society of Sweden (1996-99), secretary, and president of the acoustical society of Norway (2002-06), vice president of the European Acoustics Association (2007-13).