SpareBank 1
Kjersti Rise is a Data Scientist at SpareBank 1 SMN since June 2021, with a strong academic background in bioinformatics and biotechnology. Kjersti completed a Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) in Bioinformatics at Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU) from November 2015 to June 2022, following a Master of Science (MS) in Biotechnology at the same institution from August 2009 to September 2015. During the PhD program, Kjersti held roles as a researcher and doctoral student at NTNU, and also participated as an exchange PhD student at Háskóli Íslands in 2017, where MatLab code was developed for modeling epithelial-mesenchymal transition in breast cancer cell lines. Prior experience includes a position as a Student Library Assistant at NTNU from January 2013 to July 2015.