Curriculum vitae

Personal Information

Family name, First name: Vinje, Vegard Date of birth: 15.04.1991 Nationality: Norwegian Email: [email protected]

Education present PhD candidate at the Department of Mathematics, University of Oslo (UiO) and Simula School of Research and Innovation, Norway. Thesis objective: Mathematical modelling based on classical mechanics to under- stand fluid flow in the brain in relation to cerebral disease.

2016 MSc in computational science and engineering with specialization in mechanics, UiO, Norway. Thesis title: Simulating Cerebrospinal Fluid Flow and Spinal Cord Movement Asso- ciated with Syringomyelia

2014 BSc in Computational Science and Mathematics with focus on numerical methods, programming and fluid mechanics, UiO, Norway

2011 Visiting student in the Mathematics programme at Loyola University, Maryland, USA

Professional Experience

2016 – present PhD fellow Simula School of Research and Innovation

2013 – 2016 Research assistant at Simula Research Laboratory, Norway. Part time job, extended from a 6-week summer internship. Development of computer models for cell physiology in specific parts of the heart. Models have been developed in C and Matlab. 2013 – 2016 Teaching assistant at University of Oslo, Norway. Teaching, group sessions and evaluation of mandatory assignments and final exams. INF1100 - Introduction to programming with scientific applications. INF-MAT2351 - Numerical calculations. 2014 – present Substitute teacher, Norway Substitute teacher at Oslo Katedralskole (Oslo Cathedral school) and Ullern VGS. Both shorter and longer periods of teaching mathematics for students in the courses 1T, R1, R2, S1 and S2. 2015 – 2015 Teacher at the summer school in Oslo (Sommerskolen Oslo) Teacher at a three week course in mathematics for secondary school students (Vg1).

1 Awards, Honors and Scholarships

2016 Engineer student of the year. National prize awarded yearly to one student by Universum and Forsvarsmateriell. 2011 Soccer Scholarship, to play NCAA Division 1 soccer at Loyola University Mary- land, USA 2011 Dean’s List Honors, Loyola University Maryland, USA

Publications 2018 V Vinje, J Brucker, ME Rognes, KA Mardal, V Haughton. ”Fluid dynamics in syringomyelia cavities: Effects of heart rate, CSF velocity, CSF velocity waveform and craniovertebral decompression.” The Neuroradiology Journal, 2018.

2018 V Vinje, GE Ringstad, ME Rognes, KA Mardal, PK Eide. ”Quantification of respiratory motion of CSF flow from in vivo pressure measurements.” In preparation.

2018 M Croci, V Vinje, et al. ”Uncertainty quantification of tracer distribution in the brain using random interstitial fluid velocities.” In preparation.

Scientific Talks 06-2018 The Influence of Breathing on Cerebrospinal Fluid Movement in the Brain, 7th European conference on computational fluid mechanics, Glasgow, United Kingdom.

06-2018 Modeling of intracranial pressure during infusion test, and Fluid dynam- ics in syringomyelia cavities, 56th annual meeting of the American Society of Neuroradiology, Vancouver, Canada.

12-2017 The Brain as a Poroelastic Medium - Simulating Pulsatile motion and Flow, International Workshop on Flow in Deformable Porous Media: Numerics and Benchmarks. Hamburg, Germany.

10-2017 Is respiration the major regulator of CSF flow?, 14th symposium of the inter- national hydrocephalus imaging working group (IHIWG). Kobe, Japan.

10-2016 Simulating Cerebrospinal Fluid Flow and Spinal Cord Movement Asso- ciated with Syringomyelia, 29th Nordic Seminar on Computational Mechanics. Gothenburg, Sweden.

2 Public Outreach 03-2017 The Waterscape of the Brain, Invited speaker at the yearly recruitment day at University of Oslo

12-2016 Applied Mathematics - How to use Mathematics in Real Life, Invited talks at Nydalen and Eikeli secondary schools.

11-2016 Judge at the science fair ”Hvorfor det?”, Korsvoll Skole, Norway.

11-2016 Applied Mathematics - How to use Mathematics in Real Life, Invited speaker at Realfagskonferansen (for high school science teachers), Naeringslivets hus, Norway.

Other Activities Summer School Selected to join Simula’s summer school in computational physiology in 2014. A unique collaboration between Simula, the University of Oslo and University of Cali- fornia San Diego.

Programming Participation in several programming contests. Nordic Collegiate Programming Con- stest (NCPC), IDI Open at UiO, Northwestern Europe Regional Contest (NWERC). NWERC is for qualified teams only. We qualified as one of five Norwegian teams to compete against 90 other teams from Northern Europe.

Cross-country Silver-medal in the Norwegian championship for juniors, 2008. Several jobs as a skiing coach both for kids and parents. Currently Team Director at Lyn Ski Moseterasen competing in VISMA Ski Classics 2018 and 2019 season.

Languages

Norwegian Mother tongue English Fluent

References Simula Marie Rognes. PhD and MSc supervisor. [email protected] Simula Aslak Tveito, CEO. Supervisor for my research assistant job at Simula. [email protected], + 47 906 87 348 UiO Joakim Sundnes. Professor in two courses where I have been teaching asisstant. sundnes@ifi.uio.no + 47 977 22 924

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