• Molecular spectroscopy and kinetics and mechanisms of reactions important in Earth’s atmosphere and other planetary atmospheres.
• Aerosols, photochemistry and health: from the lower troposphere to the lower stratosphere.
• Atmospheric chemistry and environmental fate of non-CO₂ greenhouse gasses and their role in a feasible plan for climate stabilization.
• The environmental fate, dispersion, and persistence of consumer/industrial chemicals.
• Technologies addressing issues in energy, transportation and human health.
• Environmental policy: Impacts and economics of energy policies, sustainable strategies and global change.

72 publications published in international refereed journals.
These publications are cited by 2638 other articles (Publons, April 2021), averaging 37 citations per article (h-index: 27).

Education

Ph.D.        Atmospheric Chemistry, 2006
University of Copenhagen, Denmark
COGCI Ph.D. School    Advisor: Professor O. J. Nielsen
Dissertation: Atmospheric Degradation of Fluorotelomer Alcohols - An Atmospheric Source of Perfluorinated Carboxylic Acids
Committee: Dr. R. A. Cox (University of Cambridge, UK), Dr. G. Tyndall (National Center for Atmospheric Research, USA), and Dr. M. S. Johnson (University of Copenhagen, Denmark).

Master of Science        Chemistry, 2002
University of Southern Denmark, Denmark
Department of Chemistry     Advisor: Professor C. Lohse
Thesis: Atmospheric Degradation of Aromatic Compounds 

Master of Science         Humanistic Design Studies, 2001
University of Southern Denmark, Denmark
Subsidiary Courses at the Institute of Literature, Media and Cultural Studies

Bachelor of Science       Chemistry, 1999
University of Southern Denmark, Denmark
Department of Chemistry   Advisor: Professor T. Stroyer Hansen
Thesis: Nitrogenous Pollutants in European Water Resources

Appointments

2013 –               Adjunct Associate Professor, University of Copenhagen, Denmark
Department of Chemistry

2020 –                Associate Professor, California State University
Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry

2013 – 2020       Assistant Professor, California State University
Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry

2013 – 2014       Visiting Associate Professor, University of Copenhagen, Denmark
Department of Chemistry

2010 – 2012        NASA NPP Research Fellow, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, CA, USA (mentor: Dr. S. Sander)
Science Division, Earth Atmospheric Science 

2006 – 2009        Postdoctoral Researcher/Specialist University of California, Irvine
Department of Chemistry (mentors: Professor F. S. Rowland/D. R. Blake) 

2005 – 2006        Visiting Scientist, NASA Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, CA, USA
Atmospheric Chemistry and Dynamics Branch

2003 – 2005        Research Scholar, University of Michigan, Dearborn, MI, USA
College of Engineering and Computer Science

2001 – 2003        Visiting Researcher, Ford Motor Company, Dearborn, MI, USA
Department of Research and Advanced Engineering