Gudmund Høst
NordForsk Norway
Gudmund Høst is the Director of NeIC, and is employed at NordForsk in Oslo.
Prior to this he has held positions at the Research Council of Norway and the Department of Oceanography and Wave Statistics at DNV, and was also Chief Research Scientist at the Norwegian Computing Center, where he worked on statistical modelling of environmental data.
He has served as Chair of the Steering Board of Nordic Data Grid Facility, and has played a key role in the planning of the Nordic eScience Initiative. He has participated in expert committees on e-Infrastructures under the auspices of the US National Science Foundation and the European Commission, and in The Netherlands, Sweden and South Africa. He served as Chair of the e-Infrastructures Reflection Group (e-IRG) from 2011 to 2012. Høst holds a Master’s degree in Fluid Mechanics and a Ph.D. in Science and Mathematical Statistics, both from the University of Oslo.
ENGAGEMENTS
Executive team, Director
Board, Ex officio, non-voting
Provider forum, Observer
PAST ENGAGEMENTS
Steering group, Project owner, Chair
Program reference group, Chair
Governance
Management, Project owner
Program reference group, Chair
Programme committee, Ex officio