Øyvind Ødegård

Øyvind Ødegård received his cand. philol. degree in Archaeology in 2002 with a thesis on symbolic aspects in Viking age and medieval ship building in Northern Europe. Since 2003 he has held a position as marine archaeologist at NTNU University Museum, working with underwater cultural heritage management in Norwegian territorial waters. He has led numerous marine archaeological projects, both diver and robot based. From 2007 to 2013 he was GIS manager at the same institution, working with the transition from analog to digital data recording in archaeological field projects. Since 2011 he has been a board member of NTNU’s Applied Underwater Robotics laboratory (AUR-Lab) and has been principal scientist for archaeology at many of AUR-Lab’s multidisciplinary research cruises. In 2018 he received his PhD in marine technology at NTNU and has since been affiliated with the Centre for Autonomous Marine Operations and Systems (NTNU AMOS). He currently holds a position as a senior researcher at the University Museum’s department of Archaeology and Cultural history, tasked with building a research group in the intersection between marine archaeology and underwater robotics.