Lena Gross is a senior researcher at the High North Department of NIKU, the Norwegian Institute for Cultural Heritage Research. They have a PhD in social anthropology from the University of Oslo and worked as a postdoc and associate professor at the Centre for Sámi Studies at UiT The Arctic University of Norway before coming to NIKU.

Gross’ primary research interests are traditional/Indigenous knowledges and knowledge hierarchies, relations to land(scapes), minority-majority relations, gender, resource extraction in Sápmi and Canada, and decolonial/Indigenous/queer/feminist methodologies. They work theoretically and methodologically at an intersection between Indigenous, queer, and gender studies and social anthropology.