Curriculum
vitae with track record
ROLE IN THE PROJECT – HEAD of Research group:
Bergen CellStress, Tissue Engineering and
Simulation in Biomedicine – BeCSTESim in Biomedicine
Project manager x Project partner ☐
PERSONAL INFORMATION
Family name, First name: Bjørkum, Alvhild
Alette
Date of birth: 10.02.1962
Sex: woman
Nationality: Norwegian
Researcher unique identifier(s)
(ORCID, ResearcherID, etc.): Bjorkum AA Google Scholar
https://scholar.google.no/scholar?hl=no&as_sdt=0%2C5&q=bj%C3%B8rkum+alvhild&oq=
URL for personal web site: https://www.hvl.no/person/?user=3600064 and https://www.uib.no/en/rg/sc
EDUCATION
1996 PhD:
Disputation date: 26*.05.1996* Ph.D. (Dr. Sci.)
Neurophysiology, Department of Physiology, Medical Faculty, University of
Bergen, Norway
1986 Master:
M.Sci. (Cand. scient.) Human and zoological
physiology, Department of Physiology, Medical Faculty, University of Bergen,
Norway
CURRENT AND PREVIOUS POSITIONS
2002-2021 Associate Professor,
Department of Biomedical Laboratory Sciences and Chemical Engineering, Faculty
of Engineering, Bergen University College, Norway AND from 2017 Faculty of
Engineering and Science, Western Norway University of Applied Sciences, Bergen,
Norway
2001 Research
coordinator, Department of Health, Bergen University Research Foundation
1999- Postdoctoral stipend from The Norwegian Research Council.
1998- Visiting Associate Professor from March
1998. Invited by Professor and
Chairman Clifford B. Saper, Department of Neurology, Harvard Medical School,
Harvard University, Massachusetts, USA
1997- 10 months Associate Professor
from June 1997 Department of Physiology, Medical Faculty, University of Bergen Bilateral
collab. and agreement exchange from 2002 until today - > 50 studs. *
1990-1994: Research fellow, Department of Physiology, Medical Faculty,
University of Bergen
1989-1990: Senior Executive Officer at the Norwegian Research Council
for Science and Humanities, Council for Medical Research (NRC, CMR), Oslo,
Norway
1988-1989: Scientist/Researcher at The Norwegian Medicine Control
Authority, Oslo, Norway
FELLOWSHIPS, AWARDS AND PRIZES (if applicable)
2013 Equality-award
from Bergen University College, Norway, 2012 Prof.
qualification stipend from, Faculty og Engineering, Bergen University College, 2009 Lecturing-Milieu Award for Student-active
Research at the Biomedical Laboratory Science Program at Bergen University
College, Norway
1998 3-year
grant Research Council of Norway, Division of Medicine and Health, Norway
1998 Sleep
Research Society Award for Sleep Workshop: Molecular and Cellular Foundations
of Sleep Disorders, LA, CA.
1997 Sleep
Research Society Award for Sleep Workshop; Molecular Biological Studies of
Sleep, Program for Basic Sleep Research, LA, CA.
1995 Fulbright
Fellowship - Research/Lecturing Award from U.S. - Norway Fulbright Foundation,
for research at Department of Psychiatry, Harvard University
1995 US-Norway Foundation; Scandinavia Scholarship Award
1995
Research Council of Norway, Division of Medicine and Health
1995 Sleep
Research Society's travel fellowship for the World Federation of Sleep Research
Society's International Conference
1993 Sleep
Research Society's travel fellowship for the World Federation of Sleep
1994 Research
Society's International Conference on the Cellular Consequences of Sleep
1991 Nordic
Academy for Advanced Study, Award for One month at Department of Pharmacology,
Karolinska Institutet, Karolinska Sjukhuset,
Stockholm invited by Professor Urban Ungerstedt
1992 European Sleep Research Society's Congress Grant
1988 The Royal Ministry of Administration and Consumer Affair, Norway
1985 European Training Program grant, European Science Foundation
MOBILITY
(research stays abroad lasting more than three months) (if applicable)
1998-2000 Visiting Associate Professor from March 1998. Invited by
Professor and Chairman Clifford B. Saper, Department of Neurology, Harvard
Medical School, Harvard University, Massachusetts, USA
1995-1997 Research Fellow, Fulbright Foundation, Department of
Psychiatry Harvard Medical School, Invited by Director and Chairman Professor
Robert W. McCarley
SUPERVISION OF GRADUATE STUDENTS AND RESEARCH FELLOWS (if applicable)
2003-2005 Supervisor
”Appoint to the Doctoral Committee” for PhD-student Marta
Helliesen at Union Institute and University, Cincinnati, Ohio, USA.
2013-2015 Supervisor for Master
in Innovation and Entrepreneurship-student Beate Kluge, siv.
Ing. And Head engineer at Haukeland University Hospital and University of
Bergen, Norway, joint master between UiO and BUC/HiB. Master thesis: Implementering
av ny teknologi
i offentlige forsknings- og helsemiljø med impedansspektroskopi som eksempel.
2015-2016 Supervisor for Master
Kristian Svinø Hestetun, Master’s thesis in Software
Engineering at Department of Computing, Mathematics and Physics, Bergen
University College and Department of Informatics, University of Bergen, Norway
2015-2016 Co-supervisor for
Markus Lippert Karlsen, Master’s thesis in Software Engineering at Department
of Computing, Mathematics and Physics, Bergen University College and Department
of Informatics, University of Bergen, Norway
2018- PhD-co-supervisor for
Haja Sherief Nazimutheen Musthafa
ad Simulation and tissue engineering, University of Bergen and Western Norway
University of Applied Sciences, Bergen, Norway
TEACHING ACTIVITIES (if applicable)
2002-2022 Supervising 2-3 bachelor-group
projects pr. Year in Biomedical Analytical Scientist education as part of 15-20
credits (ECTS) EVERY spring, Lecturing 10 ECTS in Anatomy and Physiology
every autumn, Faculty of Engineering, Biomedical Laboratory Sciences Program,
Bergen University College, Norway AND from 2017 by a new name: Faculty of
Engineering and Science, Western Norway University of Applied Sciences, Bergen,
Norway. Also, lecturing Cell biology 10 ECTS partly and now fully every
spring semester from 2021.
1999-2001 25 % teaching/lecturing and other mandate work, Department
of Physiology, Medical Faculty, University of Bergen, Norway. 1997 50 %
teaching and other mandate work, Department of Physiology, Medical Faculty,
University of Bergen, Norway
1990-1994 25% teaching and other mandate work, Department of
Physiology, Medical Faculty,
University of Bergen
1991-1993 Physiology, lab. course and lecturing, 5 credit course for
science students, master level, 3 days each year
1990-1993 Physiology, lab. course and lecturing, medical and dentistry
studs., 3 weeks each year
1991-1992 Part time lecturer (50%) University Hospital Nursing School;
in physiology and anatomy. 60 hours lecturing per semester pr. class, total 120
hours (two classes)
ORGANISATION OF SCIENTIFIC MEETINGS (if applicable)
2008 Initiated, organized
and chaired a symposium and talk at the 19th Congress of the European Sleep
Research Society, Glasgow, UK,
1999 Initiated, organizing and
Chairman of one Symposium, one Focus Group and one Workshop on World Federation
of Sleep Research Societies (WFSRS) Third International Congress, Dresden,
Germany
1997 Scientific and organizing Head
of the international meeting; In vivo Microdialysis in The Central Nervous
System in Animals and Humans, December 6-7, 1997 at
the Department of Physiology, University of Bergen, Norway
INSTITUTIONAL RESPONSIBILITIES
2002-2022Head of R&D Cell stress
group ad sleep deprivation, MRI- and hyperbaric cellular stress, 2018-2022 Head
of Biomedical laboratory Sciences BIOMARG-research group,
PROJECT MANAGEMENT EXPERIENCE
2002-2022 Head/Project leader of three main projects:
Proteomic changes in serum and saliva and or cells after cellar stress in sleep-deprivation
project (humans), also a hyperbar-project
(animal, human planned) and a MRI-project
(human and cellular models). Main title first project: Protein markers for
cell stress after shiftwork, a model for stress on
the organism - a proteomic and systems biological study
COMMISSIONS OF TRUST
20015- 2017 Member of Scientific
Advisory Board for Computer Science, Software Engineering, Sensor Networks and
Engineering Computing at Western Norway University of Applied Sciences, Bergen,
Norway
MEMBERSHIPS OF ACADEMIES / SCIENTIFIC SOCIETIES (if applicable)
1997- Reviewer
for Sleep Research Online
2003 Ad
hoc reviewer in Psychopharmacology
2006 Ad hoc reviewer in Brain Research Bulletin
2007- Reviewer for Bioingeniøren,
Norwegian Biomedical Scientific Journal
2018 Ad
hoc reviewer for Journal of Proteomics
2021 Ad hoc reviewer for Molecular
Neurobiology
MAJOR SCIENTIFIC AND EDUCATIONAL COLLABORATIONS
2008 – present Professor Allan Pack and
Assoc. prof. Nirinjini Naidoo, University of
Pennsylvania School of medicine, Center for Sleep and Respiratory Neurobiology, Pennsylvania, USA,
2005 - present Director and Chairman
Professor Robert W. McCarley and Professor and Chairman Clifford B. Saper, Dept.
of Psychiatry and Dept. of Neurology respectively (cellular sleep mechanisms), Harvard
Medical School, Harvard University, Massachusetts, USA and VA-administration
Hospital and Beth Israel Hospital respectively.
2005 – present Prof. Gabor Juhasz, Laboratory
of Proteomics, Department of Physiology and Neurobiology (neuroproteomics in animal models for altered sleep and
neurological disorders), ELTE Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest, Hungary
Original scientific publications with referee (total 25) - 10 selected,
SEE FULL LIST ALSO pop.vit.:
9Porkka-Heiskanen,
T., Strecker, R.E., Thakkar,
M., Bjørkum, A.A., Green, R. W. and McCarley R.W. Adenosine; A
Mediator of the Sleep-Inducing Effects of Prolonged Wakefulness, Science, 1997,
276, (5316), iss. of 23 May, pp. 1265-1268. Citations: 1199
12 Chou,
T, Bjørkum, A.A., Lu, J., Scammell, T. and Saper, C.B.; Afferents to the
ventrolateral preoptic nucleus. J Neurosci. 2002 Feb 1;22(3):977-990. Citations: 287
13 Lu, J., Bjørkum, A.A., Xu, M., Gaus, S.E., Shiromani, P. and Saper, C.B.; Selective Activation
of the Extended Ventrolateral Preoptic Nucleus during Rapid Eye Movement Sleep. , J Neurosci. 2002 Jun 1;22(11):
4568-4576. Citations: 304
14 B
Bjorvatn, J Grønli, F Hamre, E Sørensen, E Fiske, AA Bjørkum, CM Portas, C.M,
and R Ursin. Effects of sleep deprivation on extracellular serotonin in
hippocampus and frontal cortex of the rat
Neuroscience
113 (2), 323-330. Citations: 66
10 Strecker,
R.E., Thakkar, M.M., Porkka-Heiskanen, T., Dauphin, L.J., Bjørkum, A.A. and McCarley R.W. Behavioral state-related changes of
extracellular serotonin consentration in the
pedunculopontine tegmental nucleus: A microdialysis study in freely moving
animals. Sleep Research Online 2(2): 21‑27, 1999. Citations: 46
18 Shea
JL, Mochizuki T, Sagvaag V, Aspevik
T, Bjorkum AA, Datta S. Rapid eye
movement (REM) sleep homeostatic regulatory processes in the rat: changes in
the sleep-wake stages and electroencephalographic power spectra. Brain Res.
2008 Jun 5;1213:48-56. Epub
2008 Apr 7. Citations: 53
19
Takács E, Nyilas R, Szepesi Z, Baracskay P, Karlsen
B, Røsvold T, Bjørkum
AA, Czurkó A, Kovács Z, Kékesi AK, Juhász G. Matrix
metalloproteinase-9 activity increased by two different types of epileptic
seizures that do not induce neuronal death: a possible role in homeostatic
synaptic plasticity.
Neurochem
Int. 2010 May-Jun;56(6-7):799-809.
Citations: 60
21
Arthurs OJ, Bjørkum AA. Safety in pediatric imaging: an update. Acta Radiol.
2013 Nov;54(9):983-90. Citations: 6
22
Kristensen, T., Jacobsen, V. and Bjørkum A.A. Data Clustering with Visualization of Proteomics Data,
2014, Lambert Academic Publishing, ISBN 978-3-659-31829-0 (book). Citations: ?
23 Arvid
Hope, Linda B. Stuhr, Tina Pavlin, Alvhild Alette Bjørkum, Marit Grønning. MRI of the central nervous system in rats
following heliox saturation decompression. Undersea
and Hyperbaric Medical Journal. 2015 Jan./Feb. 42(1):57-64. Citations: 1
24 Bjørkum AA, Oveland E, Stuhr L, Havnes MB, Berven F, Grønning M, Hope A. Fast hyperbaric
decompression after heliox saturation altered the
brain proteome in rats. PLoS One. 2017 Oct
4;12(10):e0185765. doi:
10.1371/journal.pone.0185765. eCollection
2017.PMID:28977037 Free Article
Citations: 1
25 Bjørkum A.A., Carrasco Duran, A., Frode, B. et
al. Human blood serum proteome
changes after 6 hours of sleep
deprivation at night. Sleep Science Practice 5, 14
(2021). https://doi.org/10.1186/s41606-021-00066-2
3. Research monographs and any
translations thereof
1Ursin,
R., Bjorvatn, B., Sommerfelt, L., Neckelmann, D. and Bjørkum, A. A. Studies on sleep-waking effects of serotonin reuptake
inhibitors and receptor subtype involvement. Journal of Sleep Research, 1992,
1, 157-162. Citations: 8
2McCarley
RW, Strecker, RE, Porkka-Heiskanen, T, Thakkar, M, Bjørkum, AA, Portas, CM, Rainnie, DG and Green, RW. Modulation of
cholinergic neurons by serotonin and adenosine in the control of REM and
Non-REM sleep. In Hayaishi O and Inoué
S, eds. Sleep and Sleep Disorders:From
Molecule to Behavior. Tokyo: Academic Press/Harcourt
Brace Japan, 1997, pp 63 79. Citations: ?
3 Bjørkum, A.A., Pallesen, S. Holsten, F,
Bjorvatn, B. Skiftarbeid og ulykker
– relevans for offshoreindustrien,
Tidsskr Nor Lægeforen, 2004; 124(21):2773-5, review. Citations: 5
4 Pallesen, S. Holsten, F, Bjørkum,A.A.
, Bjorvatn, B. Søvnvansker ved nattarbeid, et problem for offshoreindustrien? Tidsskr Nor Lægeforen , 2004;
124(21):2770-2, review. Citations: 6
7. Major
contributions to the early careers of excellent researchers (if applicable)
Prof. dr. med Bjørn Bjorvatn, prof. Dr. sci. Janne Grønli (supervision together
with prof. Dr. med Reidun Ursin). Also 2 years of
contribution and supervision in the groups of Dr. med.
prof and Chairmen’s; Robert W. McCarley, Harvard Medical School, Dept. of
Psychiatry, Laboratory of Neuroscience and Clifford B. Saper, Department of
Neurology, Harvard Medical School, Harvard University, Massachusetts, USA
8. Examples
of leadership in industrial innovation or design
Co-leadership with prof/dosent emeritus Terje Kristensen of Pattern Solutions https://www.patternsolutions.no/
Inventor of Bjørkum BrainTrain Center – sleep,
circadian, learning and memory training