• 1995, fil. dr. at Göteborg University, Sweden
• 1996-99 fellow at FU Berlin
• 1997-99 as a fellow of the Alexander-v.-Humboldt-Stiftung
• 2000-2003 associate professor of classical philology at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Trondheim
• 2003 full professor at the same university
• 2004 full professor of Greek language and literature at Lund University, Sweden
• 2008 elected to professorate at the University of Bergen
• Member of the Royal Norwegian Society of Sciences and Letters
• Co-founder and -editor of Trondheim Studies in Greek and Latin
• Co-editor of Scandinavian Journal of Modern Greek
• Member of advisory boards of Symbolae Osloenses and Estudios Bizantinos

• Linguistics and the history of the Greek language
• Ancient and Byzantine, editorial technique

Bücher

• The Chronicle of Symeon the Logothete: a translation with commentary: Liverpool University Press (im Druck).
• Theodore Metochites, Semeioseis gnomikai 61-70&72-81, edited with an English translation (im Druck).
• Symeonis magistri et logothetae chronicon, Berlin-New York 2006: Walter de Gruyter.
• Aristoteles och Pseudo-Xenofon om athenarnas statsförfattning, Jonsered 2001: Paul Åströms förlag.
• Sprachwandel im Griechisch der frühen römischen Kaiserzeit, Göteborg 1995 (Diss.; Studia graeca et latina gothoburgensia 60).

Artikel

• Byzantine Literature and the Classical Past. In: (ed. E. Bakker) A Companion to the An-cient Greek Language, Chichester 2010: Wiley-Blackwell.
• The Old Slavonic Translations of the Chronicle of Symeon the Logothete. In: Acta Byzantina Fennica. 2005.
• G. Walser, The Greek of the Ancient Synagogue. An Investigation of the Greek of the Septuagint, the Pseudepigrapha and the New Testament, Lund 2001 (Studia graeca et latina lundensia 8). In: Gnomon. Kritische Zeitschrift für die gesamte klassische Altertumswissenschaft. 2004.
• Original und Archetypus: zu Zustandekommen und Transformation einer byzantinischen Weltchronik (Pseudo-Polydeukes/Symeon Logothetes. In: Byzantinische Zeitschrift. 2003.
• Towards a Grammar of Byzantine Greek. In: Symbolae Osloenses. 2002.