Øystein Rasch-Halvorsen

Øystein Rasch-Halvorsen is an Associate Professor at NTNU, specializing in cardiopulmonary physiology and exercise medicine. His research focuses on respiratory function's role in exercise capacity across healthy populations and patients with cardiopulmonary diseases like COPD and coronary artery disease. He has explored post-acute effects of COVID-19 on exercise tolerance and mitochondrial respiration differences in elite athletes.

Education includes a doctoral dissertation (2022) at NTNU examining lung function-exercise capacity associations in health and disease. His work integrates clinical physiology with population health studies, such as the HUNT study.

Key research themes:

• Cardiopulmonary exercise testing
• Respiratory-CVD interactions
• Post-viral rehabilitation
• Muscle mitochondrial adaptation

Publications (2019-2022) emphasize COPD phenotyping, post-COVID-19 recovery trajectories, and exercise intolerance mechanisms in chronic diseases. No listed scientific awards, but active in collaborative research with institutions like Erasmus MC (Spruit) and HUNT study collaborators.