[b]Name:[/b] Ingrid Berg
[b]Gender:[/b] Female
[b]Age:[/b] 25
[b]Rank:[/b] Civilian Contractor
[b]Nationality:[/b] Norwegian
[b]Titles:[/b] Master of biotechnology, PhD in Nanotechnology, Bachelor of Electronics and physical sciences.
[b]Role:[/b] Head Scientist.
[b]Other notable skills:[/b] Martial arts (self-defense), Computer security, basic first aid. In-depth study of wraith biotech & crystal engineering.

[b]Appearance:[/b]
Ingrid is 169.3 cm tall, weighing at around 60 kg. Her shoulder-length hair is pale brown and naturally straight. As a civilian contractor for the IOA/SG program, she will generally go about dressed in a jumpsuit or normal clothes and a lab coat on the ship. 
[hider=Biography:]
Ingrid was born an only child early in the winter of 1989 in the city of Trondheim. She had a pretty normal early childhood, but quickly revealed that, like her parents, she was smarter than the average child. She started learning how to read early and could read on a decent level even before she started attending school. The curriculum in the Norwegian school system was not built to take smarter-than-average children into account. In fact, the running policy in there was that the smarter kids should take care of themselves or help their peers, not get special treatment. The core of that system was based around the idea that everyone has the same potential. While that system is good for those who are average or below-average, it is not good for those who are above-average. If her parents had not been aware of this issue, Ingrid could very well have ended up being bored out of her mind and never gotten anywhere near her true potential.

But her parents were aware of it and were capable of handling it. They made sure she got the challenges she needed, even to the point of getting her books written for classes several years above where she “belonged” according to the curriculum. Because Ingrid almost absorbed even those books, her parents eventually got her into a specialized private school, where she could get lessons that were on her level. Many people in the community thought the idea of them taking their daughter out of the public school system was borderline blasphemy, but they did not care. Ingrid got almost all the lessons she needed, advancing through the system at a highly accelerated pace.

The one set of lessons she never really got much involved social interaction. It is pretty hard for someone to get many friends when you easily work on medium-level algebra while your classmates still work on simple multiplication and addition. Ingrid struggled to get friends because she had so little common ground with her peers. Virtually all those her own age were simple by comparison, whereas those with the same level of knowledge as her were so much older that they could not easily get along with her.

Outside her studies and her devouring of books, she took a keen interest in science fiction. Where she had no close friends that were people, she had many deep in her books and movies. By the time she was sixteen, she had already taken university level subjects for a year and a half. Ingrid had her first Master’s degree before she celebrated her 18th birthday. She obtained her doctorate in nanotechnology by the time she was twenty-two, being one of the first people in Norway to do so. Though she did not know it at the time, her approach to that achievement had attracted the attention of the IOA and through it the Stargate Program. She continued researching that field, but also continued taking various other degrees.

Three months before she reached the age of twenty-four the headhunters of the IOA lost patience with her, approaching her with the job offer. As curious as she was, she did not have qualms about signing their non-disclosure agreements. Unlike many other scientists, she had long ago realized that not all knowledge should be readily available to anyone. When she learned just what their job offer entailed, she jumped at the opportunity. Gaining access to the knowledge of the stargate program, she immediately began studying several of the sciences of non-earthly origin.

While she was fond of having near-unlimited resources for research, she did not hesitate when the chance to be assigned to one of the starships. The science fiction nerd in her wanted to go into space. While she’s no expert in every field of science that comes up on the [i]Catherine Langford[/i], she knows there are other scientists who are experts on just that. As head scientist, she will not only do her own research, but also (to some degree) tell the other scientists what to work upon. At the age of twenty-five, she is a bit afraid that many of the others will have trouble taking commands from someone who is considerably younger. The second worry she has is that of gaining friends. The people she is surrounded with are ones she can actually talk to and maybe even get along with. She just has no idea how to do it. [/hider]

[b]Personality: [/b]
While she’s not too good at social interaction, it is not because Ingrid does not try. She’s just never had much chance to learn about interacting closely with others similar to her, especially since she did not have others like her while growing up. If someone manages to break through the shell she keeps around herself, she can be quite easy to get along with, but if they can’t break through it, they will see her as quite aloof. 
She's does not enjoy any form of cruelty or viciousness, wanting to treat even sworn enemies fairly.

To those she ends up calling friends, she is quite fond of harmless pranks and jokes, but never those that put anyone or the ship at risk.
[b]Notable flaws:[/b]
She has never held a gun, let alone fired one. She has read some of the theory about it, but theory isn’t all that good in the field. Similarly, she’s pretty uneasy about being near human corpses. Animal carcasses she only has a mild dislike of, but she prefers working with living creatures and people. 
Socially unskilled. She may say things that are… unwise... at times. Foot-in-mouth-disorder.
Allergic to fish.