Teknova is a technical/industrial research institute with offices both in Kristiansand and Grimstad.

Teknova
Researchers

Employees:

Anis Yazidi, Senior Researcher

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Anne Gerd Imenes, Senior researcher

Anne Gerd majored in Environmental Physics at the Norwegian University of Life Science (UMB), and holds a PhD degree in Applied Physics from the University of Sydney. The topic of her Master thesis was flat-plate solar collectors for domestic hot water and floor heating systems, in collabo... Read more
Boyan Yuan, Senior researcher

Boyan has a master’s degree in Physical Chemistry from Beijing University of Chemical Technology. The topic of her master’s degree was titanium nitride nano-powder with honeycomb structure used in rechargeable lithium-ion batteries. Boyan has a doctor’s degree in Material Technology from t... Read more
Egil Herland, Senior researcher

Egil has a Master of Technology degree in applied physics from the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU). Subsequently, he also earned a PhD degree in Theoretical Physics from the same university. His PhD research addressed effective models of low-temperature multicomponent... Read more
Hege Indresand, Senior researcher

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Hilde Midtbø, Head of administration

Hilde has studied administration, marketing management and economy at the Norwegian School of Management. In addition to this she has basic courses in psychology, and has studied coaching and guidance. Hilde has gained experience from several years in different positions in Posten Norge (N... Read more
Karl Magnus Laundal, Senior Researcher

Karl Magnus has a PhD in space physics from the University in Bergen. His research topic was the magnetosphere and the aurora, observed from satellites orbiting the earth. One of the results from this research, about differences between the aurora in the northern and southern hemispheres, ... Read more
Katarina Grujic, Senior researcher

Katarina majored in Physical Electronics from the University of Belgrade and has a master’s degree in Physics from the University of Tromsø. She also has a doctor’s degree in Physics from the University of Tromsø. Her thesis was on integrated optics. She worked with manipulation and sortin... Read more
Kristine Blanch, Finance Manager

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Nora Kleinknecht, Researcher

Nora has a master’s degree in atmospheric physics from the Norwegian University of Science and Technology and the Diploma in general physics (Dipl.Phys.) from Technische Universität München. Her research topics were large scale dynamics in the atmosphere (planetary waves) and mesospheric o... Read more
Rambabu Kandepu, Senior researcher

Rambabu has a master’s degree in Control and Instrumentation from Indian Institute of Technology Delhi, and a doctor’s degree in Cybernetics from Norwegian University of Science and Technology. His doctor’s degree thesis was on modelling, control and state space control of a fuel cell hybr... Read more
Rune Strandberg, Senior researcher

Rune has a degree as Master of Science in Applied Physics from Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU). The topic of his master thesis was experimental characterization of solar cell silicon using QSSPC measuring. Rune completed his doctor’s degree in Physics at NTNU winter 2... Read more
Svenn Anton Halvorsen, Senior researcher

Svenn Anton has a degree as Master of Science in Technical Physics from Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU). He has a doctor’s degree in Numeric Mathematics from NTNU, and his thesis was on modelling, analysis, programming and simulation of equations for transverse moveme... Read more
Thomas J.J. Meyer, Senior researcher

Dr. Thomas J.J. Meyer (born in Soulac, France, 1980) is a senior researcher at Teknova (Norway) specialized in novel photovoltaic concepts. With an academic background in both physics [1,2] and chemistry [3,4] Thomas worked on the development of a new type of concentrating solar cells wher... Read more
Thore Jarle Sørensen, Senior researcher

Thore is senior researcher at Teknova, and the team-leader of the process-group. He majored in Solid State Physics, and holds a doctor’s degree in Chemical Engineering. Thore has broad experience from project management and building consortiums. Financing schemes within R&D is on... Read more
Timothy Charles Lommasson, Senior Researcher

Dr. Timothy C. Lommasson is a Photovoltaic Specialist with long experience in Solar Cell research and manufacturing. He also has experience in MEMS (micro electro mechanical systems), thin films, production equipment, and oil refining. He is most interested in the development of photovolt... Read more
Tor Inge Waag, Senior researcher

Tor is Master of Science in Technical Physics from NTH (now the Norwegian University of Science and Technology, NTNU). He also holds a PhD in Experimental Physics from the same university. His thesis was on signal processing in studies of protein molecules using photon correlation spectros... Read more
Torunn Hegna, Researcher

Torunn has a master’s degree in Applied Mathematics from the University of Oslo (UiO). Her master subject was mathematics and linear programming used for DNA analysis. She has studied Practical Educational Studies (PPU) at the University of Agder (UiA), and spent a year working as a mathem... Read more