Summary
Jon Eriksen is an associate director and physicist-turned-data scientist with 10 years of experience applying machine learning and statistical methods to bioinformatics and industrial analytics. He leads Bio-Me’s operations, R&D and service lab after progressing from Head of Software and Data Science, bringing hands-on experience scaling data products from research to production. His background includes postdoctoral biostatistics work on polygenic effects in neuropsychiatric traits and industry roles building forecasting and analytics systems for energy and manufacturing. Comfortable moving between deep quantitative research and operational leadership, he combines academic rigor from a PhD in Physics with practical deployment experience across startups and labs in Oslo. An international scholar with stints at MIT, Berkeley and Saha Institute, he often bridges cross-disciplinary teams to turn complex statistical insights into usable workflows.
10 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Visiting Student Physics, Visiting Student Physics at University of California, Berkeley
Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) Physics, Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) Physics at University of Oslo
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Norwegian University of Science and Technology
Saha Institute of Nuclear Physics, Kolkata, India
English, Norwegian