Eirik Bjorheim Abrahamsen (born 1979) is Associate Professor at the University of Stavanger. He has a broad engineering background including a civil-engineering degree in industrial economics with a specialisation in project management, as well as in offshore technology with a specialisation in safety. He completed his PhD in risk management and societal safety at the University of Stavanger in 2006.

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University of Stavanger