New project: grid prediction with SurplusMap
SurplusMap is a Norwegian startup that focuses on data-driven insights in charging infrastructure of electronic vehicles. They collect and provide analytics ...
2025
New project: scam prevention with Tise
Tise is a secondhand fashion marketplace and social media platform, much like Vinted but operating in Scandinavia. Like many peer-to-peer platform, they obse...
Simula Consulting is now the Department of Applied AI
I’m happy to announce that from 2025 onwards, Simula Consulting will be fully integrated into Simula Research Laboratory as the Department of Applied AI. ...
2021
CI/CD: how to resolve private repository dependencies when using Poetry
Poetry is a Python tool that resolves packaging and dependency management. Although it is a relatively young tool, it does a number of things well: Fixing...
kode24 article (Norwegian)
kode24.no, a Norwegian developer platform, has published a short (Norwegian) article about Simula Consulting expanding their team with me and their vision on...
Role-based access control in JupyterHub: completed
The JupyterHub RBAC project has come to an end! Although there are still some creases to be ironed out, we have an implementation that will be rolled out wi...
Joining Simula Consulting
Having finished my PhD, it is time for the next step. On September 1st, I will join Simula Consulting (Oslo, Norway) with a full-time position as Data Scient...
2019
Poster showcase
An overview of my recent work in the direction of crowd dynamics. Click here for the PDF.
2018
Podcast: the how and why of applied mathematical research
This week I am starring in our university’s podcast. Forskningspodden (also on iTunes), a podcast hosted by Karlstad University Press, invites their research...
Knowledge-based crowd dynamics in evolving evacuation scenarios
Recently, we published a new article on the evacuation dynamics of human crowds in building environments: Effects of environment knowledge in evacuation scen...
Defense: Licentiate thesis
My licentiate thesis has been published and is freely available! The defense will take place September 5th. If you are interested and have the possibility of...
Obstructed flow: particle flux through a permeable membrane
Imagine a group of ducklings on one end of a corridor. When a bell sounds, all of them will waddle towards the other end of the corridor, as chaotically and ...
Modelling the effectivity of pollution-reducing asphalt
This is a showcase of a recent project I worked on with colleagues from our mathematics department. In addition to describing the mathematical techniques we ...
Antennae - Python implementation of ant trail networks
Ants are funny creatures. In spite of their (seemingly) limited cognitive and sensory abilities, they are able to build large complex structures, fight off e...
Structure of Mercurial: a crowd simulation framework
To support my research in crowd dynamics models, I am developing a simulation framework: Mercurial. The aim is to simplify the testing of new models and see ...
2017
What is crowd dynamics?
This is the first post in a series of entries on the modelling of crowd dynamics. In this post I give a short introduction into a topic of my research: crow...
Implementation of a weighted distance transform
I recently finished a Python module for computing weighted or generalized distance transforms (available here). I needed it for the motion planner in my crow...
Crowds and populations: a visual exploration
No formulas or commands in this post. Instead, I uploaded a couple of video clips I recorded in various places, showcasing dynamics in different kinds of pop...
2016
Extending Python with Fortran
If you use Python for scientific programming you’ll probably find that as long as you can use NumPy, SciPy, and other optimized libraries, scripts can be dev...
Mercurial: simulation framework for crowd dynamics
Recently, I wrote something about my graduation project. Part of this project was the development of a simulation framework, Mercurial. The goal of Mercurial...
Graduation project: a multiscale perspective on many-particle systems
In the first post on my blog, I return to the graduation project I did during my master: Large-scale multiscale particle models in inhomogeneous domains: mod...