Vegard Lysne

Postdoctoral researcher

Haukeland University Hospital

Biography

I’m a clinical dietitian from Norway, currently working as a postdoctoral researcher at Haukeland University Hospital. I’m also a member of the editorial board at The Norwegian Journal of Nutrition.

In my PhD project at University of Bergen, I used animal and human data to explore the effects of PPARα-activation and dietary macronutrient composition on one-carbon metabolism and B-vitamin status. My main research interests are the methodology and statistical methods used in nutritional epidemiology, and my main research tools are R and RStudio, where I do all my statistical analyses and most of my writing.

Beside work I’m a big sports fan. My main sport is volleyball, where I’m currently coaching the mens recruit team and perform scouting and statistical analyses for the mens first team at TIF Viking, using Data Volley 4. My musical preference is hard rock and related genres.

Work interests

Clinical nutrition
Nutritional epidemiology
Statistics and research methods
R programming

Education

PhD, Clinical Nutrition, 2019

University of Bergen
MSc in Clinical Nutrition, 2014

University of Bergen
BSc in Human Nutrition, 2012

University of Bergen

Recent Posts

Last updated on Mar 17, 2020 Epidemiology

The analysis and interpretation of compositional data

Compositional data is data where the total can be divided into distinct parts. These types of data is very common, but offer some challenges in both analysis and interpretation. Recently, a paper discussing these types of data was published, and herein follows my summary.

Last updated on Jan 21, 2020

Summary of 2019

Another year has passed, and it’s time to look back. Here’s a list of the work-related things I’ve done in the last 12 months, and some thoughts regarding what 2020 will bring. 1. PhDone! My highlight of 2019 is the completion of my PhD. I submitted my thesis in the beginning of June, and the defense took place in October. You can read the summary of my defense here.

Last updated on Dec 6, 2019 updates