I have been teaching marine ecotoxicology at UiT since August 2015. I am teaching at both the bachelor (third year students) and the master/PhD levels. Besides this teaching experience in Norway, I have been working as a temporary lecturer (during my PhD, in 2005) in France at the bachelor level for one year.

At UiT, at the bachelor level, I am teaching BIO-2012 for which I am course responsible. This theoretical course is designed to acquaint the students with the fundamentals in ecotoxicology. It is mandatory for the bachelor students who registered for the environmental management bachelor programme and optional for the general biology students (including exchange students). Most students taking this course have no prior knowledge of ecotoxicology. This course attracts few students (10 at most), mainly because the offer in biology is very broad and the possibilities to combine different courses somewhat limited. This course has only been running for the past two years (autumn course) and might only run another year before it is merged with the practical course (BIO-2013) run by my colleague Jasmine Nahrgang. In addition, I am co-responsible for BIO-2014, which consists of a work placement of students outside of university. This internship, which occurs during the last semester of the bachelor, is aimed at giving them practical- and work- related competences and at easing the transition from student life to working life by informing them about potential career opportunities and promoting motivation and learning.

At the master/PhD level, I am teaching and coordinating BIO-3009/BIO-8015 which is offering a broad introduction to the Arctic marine pollution. This course is attracting a lot of international students (either exchange students or foreign students enrolled at the UiT master programme). Most students do not undertake ecotoxicology related master theses but rather take the course as a source of background knowledge about the pollution issues in the Arctic. The course is run once per year (in autumn) and attracts on average 20 students.

Together with my closest colleague Jasmine Nahrgang, we have the task of developing/expanding the teaching offer around ecotoxicology at UiT. We have plans of expanding the ecotoxicology offer at both the bachelor and the master levels within the next five years.