Klas Pettersen is CEO of NORA AI, a Norwegian national collaboration between eight Norwegian universities, five university colleges and five research institutes within artificial intelligence, machine learning and robotics. NORA’s mission is to strengthen Norwegian research, education and innovation within AI. He received his Master of Science (siv. ing.) degree in Physics from the Norwegian University of Science and Technology, where he studied quantum mechanics and the theory of relativity. He then turned to neuroscience and received a PhD in computational neuroscience in 2007 from the Norwegian University of Life Sciences (NMBU). After his PhD, Dr. Pettersen worked as a postdoctoral researcher and research scientist within computational neuroscience at the Norwegian University of Life Sciences, at the University of Oslo, and as a Visiting Scholar at the University of California San Diego. Klas also worked as a consultant within informatics for a major international consulting company. Klas has been the CEO of NORA since NORA was established in 2019. Read more about this authorRead less about this author