Helene Muri (born 1979) is a Norwegian climate scientist.[1] She is a senior researcher for the Industrial Ecology Programme (IndEcol) at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU), an interdisciplinary research programme specializing in environmental sustainability analysis. The programme aims to «provide high quality research and education in the field of industrial ecology for supporting the global community in realizing the Sustainable Development Goals[2] Muri is also a researcher at SFI Smart Maritime.[3] Her research interests include assessing the climate and environmental effects of various mitigation options in the maritime sector.[4] She is a co-author in Working Groups I[5] and III of the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change's sixth assessment report and is an adviser to the Standing Committee on Energy and the Environment of the Parliament of Norway.[6]

Helene Muri
in 2020
Born1979
NationalityNorwegian
EducationMeteorology
Alma materUniversity of Reading
University of Oxford
Scientific career
FieldsClimate science
InstitutionsUniversité catholique de Louvain
University of Oslo
Norwegian University of Science and Technology
ThesisEvaluating forcings in an ensemble of paleo-climate models (2009)

Education and career

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Muri has said in an interview that already as a 13-year-old she decided to become a meteorologist.[7] She took her education in the United Kingdom: She earned a BSc degree in meteorology from the University of Reading in 2003, and in 2009 she completed her doctorate in oceanic and planetary physics at the University of Oxford with her dissertation Evaluating forcings in an ensemble of paleo-climate models.[8]

After completing her bachelor's degree, she worked for a few years as a meteorologist and researcher before starting her doctoral work. After completing her doctorate, she was a postdoctoral fellow at the Science and Technology Sector, Georges Lemaître Centre for Earth and Climate Research at the Université catholique de Louvain in Belgium. From 2011 to 2017 she was a researcher at the University of Oslo, and since 2017 she has been affiliated with the Department of Energy and Process Engineering (EPT) at NTNU, first as a researcher and since 2019 as a senior researcher.[9]

As of 2021, Muri has been working on climate and environmental aspects related to the Paris Agreement, including options for reducing emissions in the shipping sector, negative emission technologies and solar geoengineering.[6][10]

She emphasizes the importance of interdisciplinary teamwork in order to combat climate change. In her work for the UN's Climate Panel (IPCC) sixth assessment report, she is part of a working group of around 25 researchers that studies the climate impacts if the global fleet changes its fuel from heavy oil to LNG (liquid natural gas), biofuel or hydrogen.[7]

She believes that the Norwegian higher-education sector could contribute much more in the area of "green thinking" and has advocated that sustainability should be included in all educational study disciplines.[11]

Publications

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  • "Helene Muri". scholar.google.no. Retrieved 2022-03-10.
  • List of publications by Helene Muri in BIBSYS (Norway)[12]
  • List of publications by Helene Muri in CRIStin (The Norwegian Scientific Index)

References

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  1. ^ "ORCID". orcid.org. Retrieved 2022-03-10.
  2. ^ "About IndEcol - Industrial Ecology Programme - NTNU". www.ntnu.edu. Retrieved 2022-03-10.
  3. ^ N.N., N.N. "Smart Maritime – Contact". Smart Maritime. Retrieved 2022-03-10.
  4. ^ "Helene Muri". Smart Maritime (in Norwegian Bokmål). Archived from the original on 2021-11-24. Retrieved 2022-03-10.
  5. ^ N.N., N.N. (2021). "Climate Change 2021: the Physical Science Basis. Working Group I contribution to the Sixth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change" (PDF). ipcc.ch. Retrieved 2022-03-10.
  6. ^ a b "Helene Muri - NTNU". www.ntnu.edu. Retrieved 2022-03-10.
  7. ^ a b Jensen (foto), Hilde Østmoe,Håvard Haugseth (2021-10-30). "(+) Karbonfangeren". adressa.no (in Norwegian Bokmål). Retrieved 2022-03-10.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
  8. ^ Muri, Helene (January 2009). "Evaluating forcings in an ensemble of paleo-climate models". ResearchGate. Retrieved 2022-03-10.
  9. ^ "Staff, contact info - Department of Energy and Process Engineering - NTNU". www.ntnu.edu. Retrieved 2022-03-10.
  10. ^ "– Bare kutt i utslipp monner". Gemini.no (in Norwegian Bokmål). 2018-09-23. Retrieved 2022-03-10.
  11. ^ Bjørgan, Espen Halvorsen (2021-08-31). "Vil ha bærekraft inn i alle utdanningsløp". www.universitetsavisa.no (in Norwegian Bokmål). Retrieved 2022-03-10.
  12. ^ BIBSYS' unified search service "ORIA" gives an overview of the literature held by all Norwegian college and university libraries, other research institutions and the National Library of Norway
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