Academic Background
1989 B.Sc. in physics and chemistry, Aarhus University
1991 Cand. Scient. in physics, Institute for Physics and Astronomy, Aarhus University
1994 Ph.D. in physics, Institute for Physics and Astronomy, Aarhus University
Employment History
1994 – 1995 Postdoctoral fellow at The Rowland Institute for Science, Cambridge, MA, USA
1995 – 1998 Curie postdoc, The Niels Bohr Institute, University of Copenhagen
1998 – 2000 Postdoctoral fellow at Nordic Institute for Theoretical Physics, Copenhagen
2000 – 2005 Research associate professor, The Niels Bohr Institute, University of Copenhagen
2006 – 2011 Adjoint associate professor, The Niels Bohr Institute, University of Copenhagen
2013 – 2017 Head of studies, MSc in Physics and Nanotechnology, Technical University of Denmark
2005 – 2020 Associate Professor, DTU Physics, Technical University of Denmark
Current position
Since 2020 Associate professor, DTU Health Technology, Technical University of Denmark
Research leadership
PI of founding grant, Optical tweezers group, NBI.6 MDkr, Danish Research Councils
Participant in BioQ; Novo Nordisk Foundation (Synergy). Headed by Ulrik Lund Andersen, DTU Physics
Coapplicant in QuantumBioEngineering; Novo Nordisk Foundation (Exploratory Synergy). Headed by Stephan Wenkel, University of Copenhagen
PI of DFF-FNU project 1, April 2020
PI of Novo Nordisk Foundation grant, NERD program, May 2020
Research Field
Till 1999: Physics of cold atoms in optical lattices and BE condensates, laser cooling
From 1999: Biological physics, optical trapping and manipulation, dataanalysis,
osmotically driven transport, simple microfluidics experiments, sensing by optical and quantum mechanical means
Student Supervision
2 postdocs, 2 Ph.D. students, >15 M.Sc students, several bachelor and younger students. Co-advisor for 6 postdocs, 8 Ph.D. students, 9 M.Sc students.
Publications
59 articles or conference papers with peer review, h-index 25