Summary
Robert Jacobsen is a Senior Quantitative Specialist with 11 years of experience applying advanced mathematics, statistics, and machine learning to algorithmic energy trading and forecasting. He has built end-to-end ML systems and productionized reusable, testable code across roles from industry R&D to startups, including co-founding a trading venture and pioneering weather-driven strategies at Centrica. Equally comfortable in research and production, he has an academic PhD background in mathematics and statistics and a history of contributing practical Julia packages for numerical tasks. Based in North Denmark, he is a hands-on programmer who champions containerized deployments and CI improvements to bridge models into reliable trading infrastructure. Driven by curiosity, he mixes theoretical rigor with engineering pragmatism and a quiet open-source streak that surfaces in tools still used by peers.
11 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Mathematics and Statistics, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Mathematics and Statistics at Aalborg University
Master of Science (M.Sc.), Statistics, Master of Science (M.Sc.), Statistics at Aarhus University
Tårnby gymnasium
Dartmouth College
Danish, English