Bio

The CEO of NORA.ai – Norwegian Artificial Intelligence Research Consortium, a collaboration between eight Norwegian universities, three university colleges and four research institutes within artificial intelligence, machine learning and robotics. My masters is within physics from the Norwegian University of Science and Technology, where I studied quantum mechanics and the theory of relativity. I turned to neuroscience and received a PhD in computational neuroscience in 2007 from the Norwegian University of Life Sciences (NMBU). After receiving my PhD I have worked as a postdoctoral researcher and research scientist. In my scientific work I have applied physics, mathematics, informatics and techniques from artificial intelligence to understand the brain. From 2014-2019 I was a research scientist at the Faculty of Medicine at the University of Oslo. From 2008 to 2013 I worked as a postdoctoral researcher and a research scientist at NMBU, in the Group for Computational Biology and later also at the Center for Integrative Genetics. I has also worked as a Visiting Scholar at the University of California San Diego (2015), and as a consultant for Accenture.