Jørgen Eriksson Midtbø
Senior researcher
Contact
Send email {model.translations.sendEmailTo} JorgenEriksson.Midtbo@fhi.no
Department
Responsibilities
I am an infectious disease modeller, particularly interested in agent-based models. Diseases I have worked with include covid-19, hepatitis C and varicella/herpes zoster. I am also involved in vaccine effectiveness estimation using registry data.
Projects and publications
- A. Spyrou, D. Richman, A. Couture, C.E. Fields, S.N. Liddick, K. Childers, B.P. Crider, P.A. DeYoung, A.C. Dombos, P. Gastis, Magne Sveen Guttormsen, K. Hermansen, Ann-Cecilie Larsen, R. Lewis, S. Lyons, Jørgen E. Midtbø, S. Mosby, D. Muecher, F. Naqvi, A. Palmisano-Kyle, G. Perdikakis, C. Prokop, H. Schatz, M.K. Smith, C. Sumithrarachchi, A. Sweet, (2024). Enhanced production of 60Fe in massive stars. Nature Communications doi: 10.1038/s41467-024-54040-4
- Mikhail Shubin, Hilde Kjelgaard Brustad, Jørgen E. Midtbø, Felix Günther, Laura Alessandretti, Tapio Ala-Nissila, Gianpaolo Scalia Tomba, Mikko Kivelä, Yat Hin Chan, Lasse Leskelä, (2024). The influence of cross-border mobility on the COVID-19 epidemic in Nordic countries. PLoS Computational Biology doi: 10.1371/journal.pcbi.1012182
- Robert Neil Whittaker, Jørgen E. Midtbø, Hilde Kløvstad, (2024). Monitoring Progress Towards the Elimination of Hepatitis C as a Public Health Threat in Norway: A Modelling Study Among People Who Inject Drugs and Immigrants . Journal of Infectious Diseases s. e700-e711. doi: 10.1093/infdis/jiae147
- Yat Hin Chan, Gunnar Rø, Jørgen E. Midtbø, Francesco Di Ruscio, Sara Sofie Viksmoen Watle, Lene Kristine Juvet, Jasper Littmann, Preben Aavitsland, Karin Maria Nygård, Are Stuwitz Berg, Geir Bukholm, Anja Bråthen Kristoffersen, Kenth Engø-Monsen, Solveig Engebretsen, David Michael Swanson, Alfonso Diz-Lois Palomares, Jonas Christoffer Lindstrøm, Arnoldo Frigessi, Birgitte Freiesleben De Blasio, (2024). Modeling geographic vaccination strategies for COVID-19 in Norway. PLoS Computational Biology doi: 10.1371/journal.pcbi.1011426
- S.P.E. Magagula, Kgashane Leroy Malatji, M. Wiedeking, L Pellegri, Kristine Sønstevold Beckmann, Frank Leonel Bello Garrote, Andreas Görgen, Magne Sveen Guttormsen, Trine Wiborg Hagen, Vetle Wegner Ingeberg, P. Jones, Bonginkosi Vincent Kheswa, Ann-Cecilie Larsen, Jørgen Eriksson Midtbø, Peter von Neumann-Cosel, Sunniva Siem, Gry Merete Tveten, Fabio Balthasar Zeiser, (2023). Investigating the strength of the scissors mode in 151Sm. Journal of Physics: Conference Series (JPCS) doi: 10.1088/1742-6596/2586/1/012070
- Gry Merete Tveten, H. Utsunomiya, Ann-Cecilie Larsen, E. Algin, T. Ari-Izumi, Kursad Osman Ay, Frank Leonel Bello Garrote, Lucia Crespo Campo, Frida Woldstad Furmyr, S. Goriely, Andreas Görgen, Magne Sveen Guttormsen, Vetle Wegner Ingeberg, Bonginkosi Vincent Kheswa, I.K.B. Kullmann, T. Laplace, Erlend Lima, Maria Markova, Jørgen E. Midtbø, S. Miyamoto, Andreas Halkjelsvik Mjøs, Victor Modamio, M. Ozgur, Francesco Pogliano, Therese Renstrøm, Signe Riemer-Sørensen, Eda Sahin, Sijing Shen, Sunniva Siem, A. Spyrou, M. Wiedeking, (2023). New experimental constraint on the W 185 (n,γ) W 186 cross section. Physical Review C doi: 10.1103/PhysRevC.108.025804
- Meghana Kamineni, Kenth Engø-Monsen, Jørgen E. Midtbø, Frode Forland, Birgitte Freiesleben De Blasio, Arnoldo Frigessi, Solveig Engebretsen, (2023). Effects of non-compulsory and mandatory COVID-19 interventions on travel distance and time away from home, Norway, 2021. Eurosurveillance doi: 10.2807/1560-7917.ES.2023.28.17.2200382
- Francesco Pogliano, Frank Leonel Bello Garrote, Ann-Cecilie Larsen, Hannah Christine Berg, Dorthea Gjestvang, Andreas Görgen, Magne Sveen Guttormsen, Vetle Wegner Ingeberg, Trond Wiggo Johansen, Kgashane Leroy Malatji, Eric Francis Matthews, Maria Markova, Jørgen E. Midtbø, Victor Modamio, Line Gaard Pedersen, Eda Sahin, Sunniva Siem, Tamas Gabor Tornyi, Andrew Voyles, (2023). Observation of a candidate for the M1 scissors resonance in odd-odd Ho 166. Physical Review C doi: 10.1103/PhysRevC.107.034605
- Solveig Engebretsen, Alfonso Diz-Lois Palomares, Gunnar Øyvind Isaksson Rø, Anja Bråthen Kristoffersen, Jonas Christoffer Lindstrøm, Kenth Engø-Monsen, Meghana Kamineni, Yat Hin Chan, Ørjan Dale, Jørgen E. Midtbø, Kristian Lindalen Stenerud, Francesco Di Ruscio, Richard Aubrey White, Arnoldo Frigessi, Birgitte Freiesleben De Blasio, (2023). A real-time regional model for COVID-19: Probabilistic situational awareness and forecasting. PLoS Computational Biology doi: 10.1371/journal.pcbi.1010860
- Frank Leonel Bello Garrote, Araceli Lopez-Martens, Ann-Cecilie Larsen, I. Deloncle, Sophie Péru, Fabio Zeiser, Paul T. Greenlees, Bonginkosi Vincent Kheswa, Kalle Auranen, Darren L. Bleuel, Daniel M. Cox, Lucia Crespo Campo, Francesca Giacoppo, Andreas Görgen, Tuomas Grahn, Magne Sveen Guttormsen, Trine Wiborg Hagen, Laura Harkness-Brennan, Karl Hauschild, Greg Henning, R.-D. Herzberg, Rauno Julin, S. Juutinen, Thibault A. Laplace, M. Leino, Jørgen E. Midtbø, Victor Modamio, Janne Pakarinen, P. Papadakis, J. Partanen, Therese Renstrøm, Kseniia Rezynkina, Mikael Sandzelius, Jan Sarén, Cath S. Scholey, Sunniva Siem, J. Sorri, S. Stolze, J. Uusitalo, (2022). Experimental observation of the M1 scissors mode in <sup>254</sup>No. Physics Letters B doi: 10.1016/j.physletb.2022.137479
- Magne Sveen Guttormsen, Kursad Osman Ay, Mustafa Ozgur, Emel Algin, Ann-Cecilie Larsen, Frank Leonel Bello Garrote, Hannah Berg, Lucia Crespo Campo, Thomas Dahl-Jacobsen, Dorthea Gjestvang, Andreas Görgen, Trine Wiborg Hagen, Vetle Wegner Ingeberg, Bonginkosi Vincent Kheswa, Ina Kristine Berentsen Kullmann, Malin Linnea Klintefjord, Maria Markova, Jørgen E. Midtbø, Victor Modamio, Wanja Paulsen, Line Gaard Pedersen, Therese Renstrøm, Eda Sahin, Sunniva Siem, Gry Merete Tveten, Mathis Wiedeking, (2022). Evolution of the γ -ray strength function in neodymium isotopes. Physical Review C doi: 10.1103/PhysRevC.106.034314
- Magne Sveen Guttormsen, Yoram Alhassid, Wouter Ryssens, K.o. Ay, Mustafa Ozgur, Emel Algin, Ann-Cecilie Larsen, Frank Leonel Bello Garrote, Lucia Crespo Campo, Thomas Dahl-Jacobsen, Andreas Görgen, Trine Wiborg Hagen, Vetle Wegner Ingeberg, Bonginkosi Vincent Kheswa, Malin Klintefjord, Jørgen E. Midtbø, Victor Modamio, Therese Renstrøm, Eda Sahin, Sunniva Siem, Gry Merete Tveten, Fabio Zeiser, (2021). Strong enhancement of level densities in the crossover from spherical to deformed neodymium isotopes. Physics Letters B doi: 10.1016/j.physletb.2021.136206
- Jørgen E. Midtbø, Fabio Zeiser, Erlend Lima, Ann-Cecilie Larsen, Gry Merete Tveten, Magne Sveen Guttormsen, Frank Leonel Bello Garrote, Anders Kvellestad, Therese Renstrøm, (2021). A new software implementation of the Oslo method with rigorous statistical uncertainty propagation. Computer Physics Communications doi: 10.1016/j.cpc.2020.107795
- Jørgen E. Midtbø, Ann-Cecilie Larsen, Therese Renstrøm, Frank Leonel Bello Garrote, Erlend Lima, (2019). Systematic Low-Energy Enhancementof the Gamma-Ray Strength Function. s. 405-407. doi: 10.1007/978-3-030-13876-9
- Ann-Cecilie Larsen, Sean N. Liddick, Artemis Spyrou, Magne Sveen Guttormsen, Frank Leonel Bello Garrote, Jørgen E. Midtbø, Therese Renstrøm, (2019). The Beta-Oslo Method: ExperimentallyConstrained (n,γ) Reaction RatesRelevant to ther-Process. s. 137-140. doi: 10.1007/978-3-030-13876-9_22
- Fabio Zeiser, Gry Merete Tveten, Gregory Potel, Ann-Cecilie Larsen, Magne Sveen Guttormsen, Thibault A. Laplace, Sunniva Siem, Darren L. Bleuel, Bethany L. Goldblum, Lee A. Bernstein, Frank Leonel Bello Garrote, Lucia Crespo Campo, Tomas Kvalheim Eriksen, Andreas Görgen, Katarzyna Hadynska-Klek, Vetle Wegner Ingeberg, Jørgen E. Midtbø, Eda Sahin, Tamas Gabor Tornyi, Alexander Voinov, Mathis Wiedeking, Jonathan Wilson, (2019). Restricted spin-range correction in the Oslo method: The example of nuclear level density and γ-ray strength function from 239Pu(d, pγ) 240Pu. Physical Review C s. 1-9. doi: 10.1103/PhysRevC.100.024305
- Sean N. Liddick, Ann-Cecilie Larsen, Magne Sveen Guttormsen, Artemis Spyrou, Benjamin P. Crider, Farheen Naqvi, Jørgen E. Midtbø, Frank Leonel Bello Garrote, Darren L. Bleuel, Lucia Crespo Campo, Aaron J. Couture, Alexander C. Dombos, Francesca Giacoppo, Andreas Görgen, Katarzyna Hadynska-Klek, Trine Wiborg Hagen, Vetle Wegner Ingeberg, Bonginkosi Vincent Kheswa, Rebecca Lewis, Shea M. Mosby, Georgios Perdikakis, Christopher J. Prokop, Stephen Quinn, Therese Renstrøm, Sunniva Johanne Rose, Eda Sahin, Sunniva Siem, Gry Merete Tveten, Mathis Wiedeking, Fabio Zeiser, (2019). Benchmarking the extraction of statistical neutron capture cross sections on short-lived nuclei for applications using the β-Oslo method . Physical Review C s. 1-12. doi: 10.1103/PhysRevC.100.024624
- Ina Kristine Berentsen Kullmann, Ann-Cecilie Larsen, Therese Renstrøm, Kristine Sønstevold Beckmann, Frank Leonel Bello Garrote, Lucia Crespo Campo, Andreas Görgen, Magne Sveen Guttormsen, Jørgen E. Midtbø, Eda Sahin, Sunniva Siem, Gry Merete Tveten, Fabio Zeiser, (2019). First experimental constraint on the 191Os(n,γ) reaction rate relevant to s-process nucleosynthesis . Physical Review C doi: 10.1103/PhysRevC.99.065806
- Jørgen E. Midtbø, Ann-Cecilie Larsen, Therese Renstrøm, Frank Leonel Bello Garrote, Erlend Lima, (2018). Consolidating the concept of low-energy magnetic dipole decay radiation. Physical Review C s. 064321-1-064321-12. doi: 10.1103/PhysRevC.98.064321
- Ann-Cecilie Larsen, Jørgen E. Midtbø, Magne Sveen Guttormsen, Therese Renstrøm, Sean N. Liddick, Artemis Spyrou, Sofia Karampagia, Alex Brown, Oleg Achakovskiy, Sergei Kamerdzhiev, Darren L. Bleuel, Aaron J. Couture, Lucia Crespo Campo, Benjamin P. Crider, Alexander C. Dombos, Rebecca Lewis, Shea M. Mosby, Farheen Naqvi, Georgios Perdikakis, Christopher J. Prokop, Stephen Quinn, Sunniva Siem, (2018). Enhanced low-energy γ-decay strength of 70Ni and its robustness within the shell model. Physical Review C s. 1-9. doi: 10.1103/PhysRevC.97.054329
- Therese Renstrøm, H. Utsunomiya, Hilde-Therese Nyhus, Ann-Cecilie Larsen, Magne Sveen Guttormsen, Gry Merete Tveten, D. M. Filipescu, I. Gheorghe, S Goriely, S. Hilaire, Y.-W. Lui, Jørgen E. Midtbø, S. Péru, T. Shima, Sunniva Siem, O. Tesileanu, (2018). Verification of detailed balance for γ absorption and emission in Dy isotopes. Physical Review C s. 1-14. doi: 10.1103/PhysRevC.98.054310
- Hiroaki Utsunomiya, Therese Renstrøm, Gry Merete Tveten, Stéphane Goriely, Seitaro Katayama, Takashi Ari-Izumi, Daiki Takenaka, Dmytro Symochko, Bonginkosi Vincent Kheswa, Vetle Wegner Ingeberg, Tudor Glodariu, Yiu-Wing Lui, Shyuji Miyamoto, Ann-Cecilie Larsen, Jørgen E. Midtbø, Andreas Görgen, Sunniva Siem, Lucia Crespo Campo, Magne Sveen Guttormsen, Stéphane Hilaire, Sophie Péru, Arjan J. Koning, (2018). Photoneutron cross sections for Ni isotopes: Toward understanding (n, γ ) cross sections relevant to weak s-process nucleosynthesis. Physical Review C s. 1-9. doi: 10.1103/PhysRevC.98.054619
- Magne Sveen Guttormsen, Ann-Cecilie Larsen, Jørgen E. Midtbø, Lucia Crespo Campo, Andreas Görgen, Vetle Wegner Ingeberg, Therese Renstrøm, Sunniva Siem, Gry Merete Tveten, Fabio Zeiser, Leo Kirsch, (2018). Gamma-widths, lifetimes and fluctuations in the nuclear quasi-continuum. The European Physical Journal Conferences doi: 10.1051/epjconf/201817806001
- Bonginkosi Vincent Kheswa, Mathis Wiedeking, Joshua A. Brown, Ann-Cecilie Larsen, Stéphane Goriely, Magne Sveen Guttormsen, Frank Leonel Bello Garrote, Lee A. Bernstein, Darren L. Bleuel, Tomas Kvalheim Eriksen, Francesca Giacoppo, Andreas Görgen, Bethany L. Goldblum, Trine Wiborg Hagen, Paul Edward Koehler, Malin Klintefjord, Kgashane L. Malatji, Jørgen Eriksson Midtbø, Hilde-Therese Nyhus, P. Papka, Therese Renstrøm, Sunniva Johanne Rose, Eda Sahin, Sunniva Siem, Tamas Gabor Tornyi, (2017). 137,138,139La(n,γ) cross sections constrained with statistical decay properties of 138,139,140La nuclei. Physical Review C doi: 10.1103/PhysRevC.95.045805
- Ann-Cecilie Larsen, Magne Sveen Guttormsen, Nives Blasi, Angela Bracco, Franco Camera, Lucia Crespo Campo, Tomas Kvalheim Eriksen, Andreas Görgen, Trine Wiborg Hagen, Vetle Wegner Ingeberg, Bonginkosi Vincent Kheswa, Silvia Leoni, Jørgen Eriksson Midtbø, Bénédicte Million, Hilde-Therese Nyhus, Therese Renstrøm, Sunniva Johanne Rose, Inger Eli Ruud, Sunniva Siem, Tamas Gabor Tornyi, Gry Merete Tveten, Alexander Voinov, Mathis Wiedeking, Fabio Zeiser, (2017). Low-energy enhancement and fluctuations of γ-ray strength functions in 56,57Fe: test of the Brink–Axel hypothesis. Journal of Physics G: Nuclear and Particle Physics doi: 10.1088/1361-6471/aa644a
- K.o. Ay, Mustafa Ozgur, Emel Algin, Magne Sveen Guttormsen, Frank Leonel Bello Garrote, Lucia Crespo Campo, Andreas Görgen, Trine Wiborg Hagen, Vetle Wegner Ingeberg, Bonginkosi Vincent Kheswa, Malin Klintefjord, Ann-Cecilie Larsen, Jørgen Eriksson Midtbø, Victor Høybjør Modamio, Therese Renstrøm, Sunniva Johanne Rose, Eda Sahin, Sunniva Siem, Gry Merete Tveten, Fabio Zeiser, (2016). Nuclear level densities and gamma-ray strength functions of 145,149,151Nd isotopes. Journal of Physics: Conference Series (JPCS) doi: 10.1088/1742-6596/766/1/012027
- Jørgen E. Midtbø, (2023). Hva er en smittemodell - og hva skal vi med dem?.
- Jørgen E. Midtbø, (2022). Guest lecture on infectious disease modelling for FYS3150 Computational Physics at the University of Oslo.
- Jørgen E. Midtbø, Birgitte Freiesleben De Blasio, Francesco Di Ruscio, Yat Hin Chan, Camilla Stoltenberg, Line Vold, Gunnar Rø, (2022). Nei, eit reknestykke held ikkje Noreg stengt. Aftenposten (morgenutg. : trykt utg.)
- Jørgen E. Midtbø, (2022). Pressemøte om risikovurdering av omikron-varianten av Sars-Cov-2.
- Fabio Zeiser, Jørgen E. Midtbø, Erlend Lima, (2019). A new approach to uncertainty estimation for nuclear level densities and gamma-ray strength functions in the Oslo Method.
- Jørgen E. Midtbø, (2018). Gravitasjonsbølger og nøytronstjerner.
- Jørgen E. Midtbø, Ann-Cecilie Larsen, Therese Renstrøm, (2018). Extracting γ-strength functions from shell model calculations.
- Jørgen E. Midtbø, (2018). Shell model calculations, Oslo method and adventures with Monte Carlo.
- Magne Sveen Guttormsen, Ann-Cecilie Larsen, Jørgen E. Midtbø, Lucia Crespo Campo, Andreas Görgen, Vetle Wegner Ingeberg, Therese Renstrøm, Sunniva Siem, Gry Merete Tveten, Fabio Zeiser, Leo Kirsch, (2017). Gamma-widths, lifetimes and fluctuations in the nuclear quasi-continuum.
- Jørgen E. Midtbø, (2017). En kjernefysisk verdenshistorie.
- Jørgen E. Midtbø, (2017). Colliding Neutron Stars – And What They Mean for You.
- Jørgen E. Midtbø, (2017). Kjernen i astrofysikk.
- Jørgen E. Midtbø, (2017). Shell model calculations of 70Ni in the quasi-continuum.
- Jørgen E. Midtbø, (2017). Statistical properties of 70Ni within the shell model.
- Jørgen E. Midtbø, (2017). Shell model studies of 70Ni.
- Jørgen Eriksson Midtbø, (2017). Kva vi er laga av. Klassekampen
- Jørgen Eriksson Midtbø, (2017). Kva vi er laga av. Syn og Segn
- Jørgen Eriksson Midtbø, (2016). Kjernen i astrofysikk - foredrag i fadderuka til FAM.
- Jørgen Eriksson Midtbø, (2016). Nuclear physics constraints for s-process elements, the Re-Os clock and galactic chemical evolution.
- Jørgen Eriksson Midtbø, (2016). Measurements of 187Re gamma strength function and level density – implications for the Re-Os cosmochronological clock.
- Jørgen Eriksson Midtbø, (2016). En kjernefysisk verdenshistorie.
- Jørgen Eriksson Midtbø, (2016). Fysikk - tilfeldigvis. Mål og makt s. 54-60.
- Jørgen Eriksson Midtbø, (2015). Mørk materie, supersymmetri og stjernefysikk - og hvordan få bli lengst mulig på Blindern. Foredrag i fadderuka til FAM..