• Principal Researcher, Grieg Academy Music Therapy Research Centre (GAMUT), Uni Health, Uni Research, Bergen, Norway.
• Professor, Grieg Academy Department of Music, University of Bergen, Norway.
• Adjunct professor, methodological adviser, and member of the PhD board at the International Music Therapy Research School, Aalborg University, Denmark.
• Editor-in-Chief of the Nordic Journal of Music Therapy.
• Associate Editor for the Cochrane Developmental, Psychosocial and Learning Problems Group (CDPLPG).
• Private music therapy practice in Vienna, Austria.
• My main research interests include outcome research (clinical trials and meta-analyses), their methodology and application in music therapy in mental health. I am also interested in research connecting process and outcome.

Contact information:

Office address: GAMUT, Uni Health, Uni Research, Lars Hilles gate 3, 5015 Bergen, Norway. Phone: +47-97501757
Private practice address: Hasnerstrasse 134/4, 1160 Vienna, Austria. Phone: +43-699-11240657
Email: firstname dot lastname dot uni dot no. Skype: firstname dot lastname

Current projects (see also www.gamut.no for project descriptions):

• TIME-A: Trial of Improvisational Music therapy's Effectiveness for Autism
• RCT-MTPSY: Multicentre RCT on music therapy for psychiatric patients with low therapy motivation
• MT-PRIS: RCT on music therapy for prison inmates
• MT-DEPR: RCT on music therapy for depression (with the University of Jyväskylä, Finland, as part of an EU project)
• Systematic reviews and meta-analyses of music therapy in mental health

• CV with list of publications
• Interest in Music scale
• One-page guide: Simple power calculation for intervention studies