Short presentation

I work as an assistant professor at the Copenhagen Health Complexity Center, in the Department of Public Health, University of Copenhagen. I have a background in medical and visual anthropology. The starting point for the centre's work is that contemporary health phenomena are complex and must therefore also be researched from many different perspective. I therefore work in close cooperation with epidemiologists, biostatisticians, historians and others. 

The focus of my work is that the individual person's experience with illness and health contains valuable knowledge and insights that we can use when we investigate health phenomena at the population level. From the time we are born, all people have a history of illness and health. The individual's life history is a prism that shows how the person's health is affected by factors such as inequality, culture, genetics, geography, history, political decisions, and much more. When you talk and spend time with individual human beings, you gain insight into causalities and dynamics that can be difficult to discern in registers, databases and questionnaires. In my project, I therefore work on including the perspectives and experiences of individual people in the centre's research. My main focus is on young adults and includes focus points on social networks, family formations, stress, mental health, and work life.

I also love museum objects, and I am a guest researcher at Medical Museion at the University of Copenhagen. I worked at the museum from 2018-2024, first as a doctoral student and then as the project manager of Appendix. I work with how museum objects can be used methodically in research and in teaching, and what role the museum can play in facilitating encounters between different voices and perspectives. I am currently working with the museum's amulet collection, and I am part of Professor Ken Arnold's research group on 'new ways of being a museum'.  

You are welcome to reach out if you have questions, are interested in supervision, would like to establish a collaboration, or if you are simply curious.

Fields of interest

Medical and visual anthropology

Museum practice and museum collections

Qualitative research

Complexity theory

Patient experience

Studies of everyday life

Science and Technology Studies

Knowledge production

Understandings of nature and the human

Understandings of anatomy

Medical technology