Ludvig Daae Bjørndal

Researcher (PhD), Clinical Psychologist (Cand.Psychol.)
📧 l.d.bjorndal@psykologi.uio.no

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Education

  • PhD in Psychology, University of Oslo (2024)
  • Cand.Psychol. (Professional Degree in Clinical Psychology), University of Oslo (2021)

Academic Affiliations

  • The PROMENTA Research Center, Department of Psychology, University of Oslo (2022 - Ongoing)

  • The PsychGen Centre for Genetic Epidemiology, Lovisenberg Diaconal Hospital and Norwegian Institute of Public Health (2023 - Ongoing)

  • The University of Oxford, Department of Psychiatry (Visiting Researcher, 2024)

  • Karolinska Institutet, Unit of Integrative Epidemiology (Visiting Researcher, 2024)

Selected Publications

(See Research for full publication list)

Bjørndal, L. D., Ebrahimi, O. V., & Bauermeister, S. (2025). The dynamic interplay between mental health difficulties and the family environment in early adolescence. JCPP Advances. https://doi.org/10.1002/jcv2.70037
Bjørndal, L. D., Røysamb E., Nes, R. B., von Soest, T., & Ebrahimi, O. V. (2025). Financial factors and depression and anxiety: A symptom-specific approach in the general population. SSM – Mental Health. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ssmmh.2025.100508
Bjørndal, L.D., Chen, Y., (…), & Fang, F. (2025). Stress resilience and risk of psychiatric disorders after childhood bereavement. JAMA Network Open. https://doi.org/10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2025.19706
Karstoft, K-I., Bjørndal, L.D., (…), & Hall, Brian. J. (2025). Associations of war exposures, post-migration living difficulties and social support with (complex) PTSD: A cohort study of Ukrainian refugees resettled in Denmark. Social Science & Medicine. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.socscimed.2025.118080
Bjørndal, L. D., Nes, R. B., Ayorech, Z., Vassend, O., & Røysamb, E. (2024). Multiple social factors are associated with wellbeing when accounting for shared genetic and environmental confounding. Quality of Life Research. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11136-024-03832-8
Bjørndal, L. D., Eilertsen, E. M., (…), & Ystrom, E. (2024). Disentangling direct and indirect genetic effects from partners and offspring on maternal depression using trio-GCTA. Nature Mental Health. https://doi.org/10.1038/s44220-024-00207-3
Bjørndal, L. D., Ebrahimi, O. V., Røysamb, E., Karstoft, K-I., Czajkowski, N. O., & Nes, R. B. (2024). Stressful life events exhibit complex patterns of associations with depressive symptoms in two population-based samples using network analysis. Journal of Affective Disorders, 349, 569-576. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jad.2024.01.054
Bjørndal, L. D., Ebrahimi, O. V., Lan, X., Nes, R. B., & Røysamb, E. (2023). Mental health and environmental factors in adults: A population-based network analysis. American Psychologist. https://doi.org/10.1037/amp0001208
Bjørndal, L. D. (2023). The relationship between stressful life events and depression risk. Nature Reviews Psychology. https://doi.org/10.1038/s44159-023-00216-6
Bjørndal, L. D., Kendler, K. S., Reichborn-Kjennerud, T., & Ystrom, E. (2022) Stressful life events increase the risk of major depressive episodes: A population-based twin study. Psychological Medicine, 1-9. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0033291722002227u
Ruggeri, K., Panin, A., Vdovic, M., Većkalov, B., (…), Bjørndal, L. D., (…), & García-Garcon, E. (2022). The globalizability of temporal discounting. Nature Human Behaviour, 6, 1386-1397. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41562-022-01392-w
Ruggeri, K., Većkalov, B., Bojanić, L., Andersen, T. L., Ashcroft- Jones, S., Ayscaxli, N., (…), Bjørndal L. D., (…), & Folke, T. (2021). The general fault in our fault lines. Nature Human Behaviour, 5, 1369-1380. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41562-021-01092-x
Ruggeri, K., Alí, S., Berge, M. L., Bertoldo, G., Bjørndal, L. D., Cortijos-Bernabeu, A., … Folke, T. (2020). Replicating patterns of Prospect Theory for decision under risk. Nature Human Behaviour, 4(6), 622-633. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41562-020-0886-x

Awards

Teaching & Supervision

I teach across a number of courses at the University of Oslo (Department of Psychology), see CV (PDF) for more details.