Professor Are Strandlie, currently full professor of physics at NTNU - Norwegian University of Science and Technology, received his Master of Science degree in Theoretical Physics in 1995 and his Doctor of Science degree in Experimental Particle Physics in 2000, both from the University of Oslo. He was a Research Fellow at CERN between 2001 and 2003, where he was working on track reconstruction software development for the CMS Tracker. He has held a position as Adjunct Professor at the Department of Physics, University of Oslo, giving lectures about statistics and data analysis techniques in experimental high-energy physics. He is now involved in the ATLAS experiment at CERN. Strandlie's research interests are concentrated around various aspects of the analysis of high-energy physics data, including the development and application of adaptive methods for track reconstruction.