I was born (1966) and raised in Århus, Denmark. After high school, I went to Middlebury College, (Vermont, USA), partly to study geology and partly to ski. I graduated at Middlebury in 1987, and then spend the following years racing with the Danish National Cross country ski team.
In 1994 I again picked up full time studies of geology at University of Oslo where I finished my PhD in 1998. The PhD project (Late orogenic evolution of the East Greenland and Scandinavian Caledonides) addressed a variety of geodynamic topics in the East Greenland and Norwegian Caledonides. The research was advised by Arild Andresen, who together with Torgeir Andersen led a very active research group on tectonics. During my PhD and Post Doc I had prolonged visits at MIT with Kip Hodges who participated in the East Greenland research, and Sam Bowring. I also used their Ar-Ar, and U-Pb labs for isotopic dating of East Greenland rocks.
In 1998 I continued to work with tectonics during my Post Doc, spend with Paul Hoffman at Harvard University, and later (2001) as a senior researcher at Norwegian Geological Survey, in the geodynamics group working with Trond Torsvik on Plate tectonics (paleomagnetics) and Elizabeth Eide on isotopic dating.
Presently I work at Physics of Geological Processes, where my research involve a combination of field geology and geodynamic (physical) modeling, combined with a number of traditional geological lab techniques. You will find more about this if you click your way onwards
