Andreas Forø Tollefsen is Associate Professor of Human Geography at the University of Oslo and Senior Researcher at the Peace Research Institute Oslo (PRIO). His research examines the spatial dynamics and societal consequences of armed conflict, with particular emphasis on migration, displacement, political violence, and development. Much of his work focuses on how conflict processes unfold unevenly across space and how local exposure to violence shapes mobility, livelihoods, and social outcomes.
He was the recipient of a Research Council of Norway Young Researcher Talent grant for the CONMIG project on conflict-induced migration, which examined how different forms and intensities of violence shape migration decisions and trajectories. He currently contributes to three major collaborative research projects: The ERC Advanced Grant project Waging of War (WoW), which studies the organizational and spatial dynamics of warfare; Peace Science Infrastructure (PSI), which develops new geospatial and event-data infrastructure for conflict research, including PRIO-GRID; and ADAPT, which explores migration as a pathway for climate adaptation and sustainable land use.