My goal is to reveal the mechanisms behind observed physical performance of wood and biomaterials. Central to the performance is interactions with water in the material structure (i.e. cell walls). Therefore, my current primary focus is to expand and renew our knowledge about properties and effects of water inside cell walls as well as how chemical modification alter these.

Education

• 2011: PhD, Technical University of Denmark
• 2007: MSc in Civil Engineering, Technical University of Denmark

Employment

• 2019- : Associate Professor, University of Copenhagen, Dept. Geosciences and Natural Resource Management
• 2015-2019: Postdoc, University of Copenhagen, Dept. Geosciences and Natural Resource Management
• 2013-2015: Postdoc, ETH Zürich, Dept. Building Materials and EMPA, Dept. Applied Wood Materials, Switzerland
• 2013: Assistant Professor, Technical University of Denmark, Dept. Civil Engineering
• 2011-2013: Consultant R&D, Danish Technological Institute
• 2008-2011: Industrial PhD candidate, Danish Technological Institute

Scientific memberships

• 2015- : Member of the Marie Curie Alumni Association
• 2013-2015: Member of Management committee, COST Action FP1303 Performance of biobased building materials
• 2010-2013: Member of Management committee, COST Action FP0904 Thermo-hydro-mechanical wood behaviour and processing
• 2009-2012: Member of Working group, COST Action FP0802 Experimental and computational micro-characterization techniques in wood mechanics

Leadership

• 2021- : Scientific reviewer of research applications for the European Forest Value programme, European Union, the NWO Dutch Research Council, Netherlands, and the Czech Science Foundation GCAR, Czech Republic
• 2020- : Scientific reviewer of research applications for Vinnova, Sweden
• 2019- : Scientific reviewer of research applications for the National Science Centre, Poland and the Academy of Finland
• 2019: Guest editor of special issue of the journal Forests
• 2017- : Member of the Editorial Board at the journal Wood Materials Science and Engineering
• 2017- : National coordinator for Denmark in the Northern European Network for Wood Science and Engineering
• 2017- : Co-chair of the National Support Group of Denmark, Forest-based Sector Technology Platform, EU
• 2017-2018: Guest editor of special issue of the journal International Wood Products Journal
• 2017: Main organisor of the conference 13^th Annual Meeting of the Northern European Network for Wood Science and Engineering (WSE2017) at the University of Copenhagen
• 2012- : Scientific reviewer for a range of ISI-journals incl. Acta Biomaterialia, Cellulose, International Biodeterioration & Biodegradation, Journal of Materials Science, Polymer Degradation and Stability, Proceedings of the Royal Society A, and other
• 2010-2011: Board member in the Industrial PhD Association
• 2007-2011: Board member and board secretary in the Danish Society for Materials Testing and Research under the Danish Society of Engineers (IDA)