Petter Jakobsen

Petter Jakobsen received the Candidatus Magisterii degree in law/social science from the University of Bergen, Norway, the bachelor’s degree in general nursing from the Haraldsplass Deaconess University College, Bergen, Norway, and the master’s degree in evidence-based practice from the Bergen University College, Norway. He is currently pursuing the Ph.D. degree with the Haukeland University Hospital, with a focus on identifying predictors of relapse in bipolar disorder and analyzing time series of motor activity collected from both hospitalized patients and outpatients with nonlinear models and machine learning. He has extensive experience in acute clinical mental health, as a research nurse, and in bartending. He was the Norwegian Coordinator of an international multicentre study—“the Pharmacogenomics of Mood Stabilizer Response in Bipolar Disorder (PGBD)” study. He has been involved in the digitization of both the research and the clinical workflow at the Haukeland University Hospital and the development of automated quality registers. Since 2017, he has been partly working as an Adviser with the Division of Psychiatry and is about to finalize his Ph.D. thesis. The Research Council of Norway funded his Ph.D. grant.