Teaching

Three recurring courses in English every semester

• Philosophy of Gender (Mondays 10:30am-1:00pm)
• Philosophy of Mental Health (Tuesdays 1:30-4:00pm)
• The Ethical Brain: Philosophy and Neuroscience (Thursdays 1:30-4:00pm)

A recurring Kierkegaard seminar in English every semester

• A reading of a work by Søren Kierkegaard (15 Mondays per semester from 2:00 to 4:00pm)

Areas of supervision

• Classical and contemporary ethical issues
• Philosophical, ethical, and therapeutic aspects of mental illness
• Existential Philosophy, phenomenology, and hermeneutics
• Philosophical and ethical aspects of gender, sexuality, and identity
• Søren Kierkegaard
• Immanuel Kant
• Paul Ricoeur

Primary fields of research

• Ethics
• Mental illness
• Existential Philosophy
• Phenomenology and Hermeneutics
• Gender studies
• Søren Kierkegaard
• Immanuel Kant
• Paul Ricoeur

Knowledge of languages

Speaking/Reading/Writing: Danish, Italian, English

Reading: German, French, Latin, Ancient Greek

CV

Born in Copenhagen, April 1975

Education

• 1995-1996: Classical Archaeology, University of Copenhagen
• 1996-2003: MA in Theology, University of Copenhagen
• 2005-2008: PhD Student at the Centre for Subjectivity Research, University of Copenhagen
• 2008 (June): PhD Thesis successfully defended.

Employment

• 2008: PostDoc at The Department for Systematic Theology, University of Copenhagen
• 2009 - 2012: PostDoc at the Department for Systematic Theology, Center for Naturalism and Christian Semantics, Faculty of Theology, University of Copenhagen. 3 year research grant from Carlsbergfondet
• 2012 - 2014: PostDoc at the Søren Kierkegaard Research Centre, Faculty of Theology, University of Copenhagen. 2 years research grant from NovoZymes
• 2014 - 2015: External Lecturer at the Søren Kierkegaard Research Centre, Faculty of Theology, University of Copenhagen.
• 2015: Associate Professor of ethics and philosophy of religion at the Søren Kierkegaard Research Centre, Faculty of Theology, University of Copenhagen
• 2023: UCPH Promotion Programme to Full Professor
• 2026: Professor of ethics and philosophy of religion at the Søren Kierkegaard Research Centre, Faculty of Theology, University of Copenhagen

Study Abroad

• 2000-2001: Studies at the Department of Philosophy, Università degli studi di Firenze, Italy
• 2005-2008: Studies at the Department of Philosophy, Università degli studi di Firenze, Italy

Further Education

• 2006: Courses in Neurophysiology, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Copenhagen
• 2007: Master Course in Clinical Psychopathology, Scuola Bolognese di Psicoterapia Cognitiva, Bologna, Italy
• Leadership Course - Leading Research

Awards

• 2002: Gold Medal from The University of Copenhagen for the Prize Essay: Imagination in Kant and Kierkegaard.