As a postdoctoral researcher at the Medical Museion and the Novo Nordisk Foundation Center for Basic Metabolic Research, I investigate the practice and theory of stakeholder engagement in international museums. Museums possess a unique potential for fostering collaborative and transdisciplinary learning, serving as vital spaces for dialogue and knowledge exchange. By bringing together diverse individuals and communities, museums can facilitate new learning experiences and explore innovative practices for knowledge-making and sharing. A key focus of my research is to advance stakeholder-centered experimental practices, enhancing the capacity of museums to engage participants in meaningful and transformative ways.

In all my work, I am interested in the relationship between narratives and science, and the stories we tell about the natural world, scientific practice, and ourselves. My previous post was in the Department of Philosophy and History of Ideas at Aarhus University, where I held a Carlsberg Foundation Reintegration Fellowship for a project on the history of the Royal Greenlandic Trading Company. As part of that project, I examined how the methodologies for producing scientific research in the colonial contact zone influenced archival collections, broadly construed, and how this, in turn, shaped processes of memorialization and museumification. Prior to taking up the Reintegration Fellowship I worked at the Scott Polar Research Institute (the home of the Polar Museum) at the University of Cambridge, and as a lecturer in the history of science communication at the University of Leeds. I received my PhD in Science and Technology Studies from York University, Canada, in 2017.