Bente Træen

Bente Træen (15 October 1958 – 17 April 2023) was a Norwegian dentist and sexologist.

Life and career Træen was born in Oslo on 15 October 1958. She graduated as cand.odont. from the University of Oslo in 1985, and obtained a Ph.D. in 1993. She was appointed professor of health psychology at the University of Tromsø in 2001. She administered several investigations on sexual habits in the Norwegian population. In 2003, she was awarded the Research Council of Norway's Award for Excellence in Communication of Science. From 2012 she was assigned with the University of Oslo, a professor of health psychology at the Institute of Psychology at the time of her death.

Træen was a regular columnist for Forskersonen (forskning.no),

Selected works (co-writer) (co-writer)