Professor Asgeir J. Sørensen obtained MSc degree in Marine Technology in 1988 at NTNU, and PhD degree
in Engineering Cybernetics at NTNU in 1993. In 1989-1992 Sørensen was employed
at MARINTEK (SINTEF) as Research Scientist. In the years 1993-2002 Sørensen was
employed in various positions in the ABB Group. In December 2002 Sørensen
become co-founder of the company, Marine Cybernetics AS, where he was
acting as President and Chief Executive Officer (CEO) until June 2010. In 2012,
2015 and 2017 Sørensen became a co-founder of the companies Ecotone AS, Eelume
AS, Pascal Technologies AS and Zeabuz
AS, respectively. Since 1999 Sørensen has held the position of Professor of
Marine Control Systems at the Department of Marine Technology, NTNU. In the
period 2003-2012 he was key scientist in the Centre for Ships and Ocean
Structures (CeSOS), and 2013-2023 Sørensen was key
scientist and the Director of the Centre for Autonomous Marine Operations and
Systems (NTNU AMOS). He is currently director of NTNU VISTA CAROS. Sørensen has
authored more than 280 scientific articles and book chapters, and he has
graduated more than 109 MSc and 37 PhD candidates. He has also together with
colleagues established the Marine Cybernetics Laboratory (MC-Lab) and the
Applied Underwater Robotics Laboratory (AUR-Lab), both at NTNU. Sørensen is
engaged in bringing fundamental research results into value creation by innovations
and entrepreneurships.