Short presentation

I’m an Assistant Professor at the Copenhagen Health Complexity Center, part of the Department of Public Health at the University of Copenhagen. My academic background is in medical and visual anthropology. At the center, we approach health as a complex phenomenon that requires insights from multiple disciplines. That’s why I collaborate closely with epidemiologists, biostatisticians, historians, and others.

My research focuses on how individual experiences of illness and health offer valuable knowledge that can inform population-level studies. From birth, every person has a unique health story. Each life acts as a prism, revealing how health is shaped by factors like inequality, culture, genetics, geography, history, and political decisions. By spending time with individuals and listening to their stories, we gain insights into causes and dynamics that are often hard to detect in registers, databases, or surveys. In my current project, I work to include personal perspectives and lived experiences in the center’s research. I focus especially on young adults, exploring themes such as social networks, family structures, stress, mental health, and working life.

I also have a deep interest in museum objects and am a guest researcher at Medical Museion, University of Copenhagen. I worked there from 2018 to 2024—first as a PhD student, then as project manager of Appendix. My work explores how museum objects can be used as research and teaching tools, and how museums can create spaces for dialogue between diverse voices and perspectives. Currently, I’m working with the museum’s amulet collection and am part of Professor Ken Arnold’s research group New Ways of Being a Museum.

Feel free to reach out if you have questions, are interested in supervision or teaching, want to collaborate—or are simply curious.

Fields of interest

Medical and visual anthropology

Qualitative research

Complexity theory

Museum practice and museum collections

Patient experiences

Studies of everyday life

Science and Technology Studies

Knowledge production

Understandings of nature and the human

Understandings of anatomy

Medical technology