Professor Lise Øvreås serves as a Vice-President (Environment Programme; External Stakeholders and Partner Engagement) of EASAC from 2024–2026. She is a professor in Geomicrobiology at the University of Bergen, Norway. She served as the President of the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters in Norway (DNVA). She has been active in working with science for policy in the Arctic and in the EU, through the Science Advice Committee at DNVA and EASAC.
From 2019 to 2022, she was the director of the Ocean Sustainability Center at the University of Bergen, a strategic tool to provide research and a meeting place for a sustainable ocean. She is also part of the Norwegian UN Ocean National Committee. She has been an active researcher within Arctic research for the last 25 years, attending research cruises and fieldwork, studying biodiversity and the effects of climate change.
The page was updated in May 2025.
