Gard Thomassen holds a PhD in Bioinformatics, and participated in the first exome and transcriptome sequencing of tumor/normal samples in Norway in 2010. In 2012 Thomassen became project leader for building a trusted research environment for storage, analysis and collection of sensitive data (TSD) at the University of Oslo Centre for IT (USIT). TSD is now the lead national eInfrastructure for research on sensitive data in the NORTRE consortium. TSD also delivers IT infrastructure for clinical deep sequencing at the Oslo University Hospital, TSD holds > 2.000 research projects with more than 10.000 active users. In 2022 Thomassen lead a consortium that was awarded a 50MNOK grant from the RCN to build a Norwegian AI Cloud. Since 2023 Thomassen has been the IT-director of UiO, the UiO IT-department has 380 employees and delivers a wide range of services locally, nationally and internationally. Thomassen has been/ is part of / associated with a wide range of large infrastructure collaborations WLCG-Tier1, EUDAT, PRACE, EOSC, Elixir, eBrains, EuroHPC, TEHDAS etc.
