Tor Grande is Pro-Rector for Research and Dissemination at NTNU.
He was previously Vice Dean for Research at the Faculty of Natural Sciences and Head of Department of Department of Materials Science and Engineering. He is a professor in Materials Chemistry/Science at the Department of Materials Science and Engineering, since 1997 and was associate professor at the Department of Inorganic Chemistry 1994-1997 (NTH/NTNU). He has been a visiting scientist at NIRIM(NIMS) in Japan and University of Rennes and been on sabbatical leave at Northwestern University and EPFL.