Espen Røysamb

Academic Interests

• Subjective well-being, quality of life, positive psychology
• Heritability, genetic and environmental factors, twin studies
• Psychometrics, methodology, statistics, structural equation modeling
• Personality traits, mental health, personality disorders

Teaching

• Personality psychology, genetics, well-being, psychometrics, tests, methodology

Higher education and employment history

• Cand Psychol, 1991, University of Oslo
• PhD, 1997, University of Oslo
• Visiting researcher at University of Michigan (1996), Birzeit University (1999), and Virginia Commonwealth University (2001)
• Current positions: Professor of personality psychology at the University of Oslo, and senior researcher at the Norwegian Institute of Public Health

Awards

• H.M. the King’s Gold Medal for dissertation
• APA’s ‘Award for research excellence’
• Best Annual Paper Award, JoHS

Appointments

• Head of Section for Health, Developmental and Personality Psychology

Cooperation

• Norwegian Institute of Public Health
• University of Tromsø
• Virginia Institute of Psychiatric and Behavior Genetics