Torleif joined StormGeo in 2014, coming from an academic background as an assistant professor at the University of Bergen. Having studied the impacts of malaria interventions and climate, Torleif became interested in the significance of the predictive power beyond weather forecasting. He saw StormGeo as the perfect environment to push such ideas into real products.

Torleif has had several roles within StormGeo; including Leader of Global Data Strategy, Research Manager, and Senior Scientist. He has been involved in developing a range of new forecasting capabilities, such as StormGeo’s lightning warnings and live lightning data, which allow clients to track lightning systems in real time and get a cost estimate of the likely damage.