Research Scientist in AI & Simulation - Norwegian Defence Research Establishment (FFI)
I work where autonomy, robotics, dynamics, and control meet. Over two decades, I have moved between heavy industry and leading academic labs, building systems that make physical robots move, adapt, and reason - from underwater vehicles and maritime platforms to industrial manipulators.
My current research combines AI-driven planning, distributed autonomous agents, world models, and simulators.
- UROSA - Distributed agentic AI architecture for autonomous underwater reasoning and mission adaptation (BlueROV2, real-world trials)
- AURA - Anomaly detection and fault diagnostics for underwater vehicles using a digital-twin pipeline (Stonefish)
- Two US patents, industrial deployments from concept to offshore commissioning, supervision of PhD and MSc students from idea to publication and field validation
Robotics · Autonomous systems · Agentic AI and multi-agent systems · World models · Nonlinear and optimal control · Optimization · Computational neuroscience
| Role | Organization | Period |
|---|---|---|
| Research Scientist - AI & Simulation | Norwegian Defence Research Establishment FFI, Norway | 2026 - present |
| Postdoctoral Researcher - Underwater Robotics | Heriot-Watt University / National Robotarium, UK | 2023 - 2025 |
| Senior Software Engineer - Robotics | YASKAWA Robotics Europe, Germany | 2023 |
| Senior Robotics Engineer | Zivid, Norway | 2022 |
| Founder | Buchholz Robotics, Norway | 2020 - 2023 |
| Principal Software Engineer | Canrig Robotic Technologies, Norway | 2018 - 2020 |
| R&D Senior Engineer - Motion Control | ABB Robotics, Norway | 2014 - 2017 |
| Senior Engineer - Subsea Control Systems | Equinor (Statoil), Norway | 2012 - 2014 |
| R&D Senior Engineer - Ship Electrical Power Systems | Rolls-Royce Marine, Norway | 2011 - 2012 |
| Lead Engineer - Subsea Control Systems | General Electric, Norway | 2008 - 2010 |
| Electrical Engineer (Shipyard) | Rysjedal Elektro AS, Norway | 2006 - 2007 |
Core: C++ · Python · ROS 2 · Linux · Docker
Robotics & Simulation: Stonefish · Gazebo · ArduPilot (SITL/MAVLink) · MoveIt 2 · Pinocchio · Crocoddyl · MATLAB
AI: LLM agent pipelines · World models · RAG / GraphRAG · PyTorch