Professor at the Norwegian University of Life Sciences (NMBU), and scientific advisor for The Norwegian Institute for Nature Research NINA. She has a Doctorate degree in conservation biology, lectures on nature management and forest biodiversity, has been appointed Honorary Doctor of Forest Sciences at the Faculty of Forest Sciences at SLU in Sweden and received the Award for Excellence in Communication of Science from The Research Council of Norway. Her debut book Terra Insecta, was nominated for the Brage Prize, it was on the Sunday Times bestseller list and was selected as one of the ten most important books about science by The Smithsonian in the US. Tapestries of Life, was nominated for the Critics’ Prize and Forest was nominated for the Brage Prize and the Booksellers’ Prize.Her books have been translated into more than 25 languages.
All titles
- Forests. On trees, people and thousands of other phenomenal species (Fall 2023)
- The Secrets of the Forest (2026)
- Insects.Learn to recognize and protect the insects around you (2021)
- Tapestries of Life (2020)
- The Sloth and the Sloth Moth ( 2020)
- Beetles, bugs and butterflies (2019)
- Terra Insecta. The little ones that make the world go ‘round (2018)