Odd Ivar Eriksen has a position as Special Adviser in the Research Council of Norway, Division for Science, working full time with research policies and strategies, funding of research infrastructures and Norway’s participation in projects in ESFRI Roadmap. He has the administrative responsibility for several international peer review expert groups for evaluations of research infrastructure applications in the Research Council. He was in the group of advisers that prepared the update of the Norwegian roadmap for research infrastructures in 2023. He has a scientific background in synthetic organic chemistry from the University in Oslo. He worked as research scientist/Senior scientist in SINTEF for many years on contract research projects for Norwegian and international industry clients. The SINTEF Group is the largest independent research organisation in Scandinavia with 2100 employees. As Research Director for Organic synthesis and later as Vice President Research for SINTEF Applied Chemistry, an institute with 220 employees, he has experience with large research projects and planning-construction-operation of both analytical facilities and research laboratories with advanced scientific instrumentation. He was appointed as delegate to ESFRI by The Ministry of Education and Research in 2008. He was member of ESFRI Implementation Group (IG) 2014-2016 and chaired the Implementation Group towards the ESFRI Roadmap in 2018. He has been member of the Executive Board of ESFRI for three periods. He is a member of the programme committee for Research Infrastructures since 2008 and also member of the ERIC-committee. He represents Norway in the governance of European Spallation Source ERIC, Euro-Bioimaging ERIC, ACTRIS ERIC and Euro-Argo ERIC.
