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Curriculum Vitae

Page updated: February 22, 2025

Summary

I hold a M.Sc. degree in computer science with a specialization in Human-Computer Interaction (HCI), the interdisciplinary field between computer science and social sciences. I have a multidisciplinary background covering computer science, psychology, cognitive science, philosophy, and information systems. I have a research background focused on quality assurance of software from a user perspective, specifically Usability and User Experience. Part of this research has been about bridging the gap between academic and practical UX. In addition, I have participated in educating the next generation of UX-designers and computer scientists.

Recent years, I have worked i the IT-sector with UX at The Danish State Railways (DSB), with corporate domain portfolio management at Thomsen Trampedach (Questel), and am now an IT-architect at the Agency for Digital Government.

Index

Work experience

2024 Business analyst, Magenta, Nuuk, Greenland.
2022 - 2024 IT-Architect, Agency for Digital Government, Copenhagen, Denmark.
2021 - 2022 Corporate account manager, Thomsen Trampedach - a Questel company, Copenhagen, Denmark.
2021 UX-reseacher, DSB - The Danish State Railways, Høje-Taastrup, Denmark.
2019 - 2020 Research assistant, IT University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark.
2012 - 2019 Research assistant & Teaching assistant, Aalborg University, Aalborg, Denmark. 
2011 - 2012 Research assistant, IT University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark.
2011 Research assistant, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, CA, USA.
2008 - 2009 Student assistant, Nordic Council of Ministers, Copenhagen, Denmark.
2000 - 2003 Student assistant, Computer Associates (CA Technologies), Holte, Denmark.
2000 - 2006 Student assistant, The Municipality of Fredensborg, Fredensborg, Denmark.

Military service

2003 - 2006 Serving in The Danish Home Guard
2001 - 2002 Serving in The Royal Danish Army - The Royal Life Guards

Education

2012 - ongoing
2016 		PhD Fellow, Human-Computer Interaction, Aalborg University, Aalborg, Denmark.
- Visiting scholar, Madeira Interactive Technologies Institute, University of Madeira, Funchal, Madeira, Portugal.
2008 - 2011
2009 - 2011
2008 		Master's degree (M.Sc), Computer Science, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark
- M.Sc visiting student, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, CA, USA.
- M.Sc visiting student, IT University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark.
2003 - 2008
2006 - 2008 		Bachelor's degree (B.Sc), Computer Science, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark.
- B.Sc visiting student, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI, USA.

Teaching

An overview of my teaching activities at Aalborg University.

Project supervision

I have supervised and examed 38 undergraduate projects and 6 graduate projects.

Bachelor project courses
  • Computer Science/Software 0 (2013, 2014 & 2015)
  • Computer Science/Software 1 (2013, 2014 & 2015)
  • Computer Science/Software 2 (2013 & 2017)
  • Computer Science/Software 3 (2014)
  • Informatics/Information technology 0 (2015)
  • Informatics/Information technology 1 (2015)
  • Informatics/Information technology 2 (2018)
Master project courses
  • IT Design and Application Development 7 (2013, 2015 & 2017)
  • IT Design and Application Development 8 (2017)

Teaching assistent

As a teaching assistent I have been involved in two courses.

  • Design and Evaluation of User Interfaces (2012, 2014 & 2015)
  • Systems Development (2012, 2013, 2014 & 2015)

Internal examiner

  • Advanced topics in Human-Computer Interaction (2015 & 2016)
  • Computer Science/Software 1 projects (2019)
  • Computer Science/Software 3 projects (2019)
  • Design and Evaluation of User Interfaces (2016 & 2017)
  • Entrepreneurship (2017 & 2018)
  • Informatics/Information Technology 1 projects (2017, 2018, & 2019)
  • Interaction Design 1 projects (2017)
  • Introduction to programming (2015 & 2016)
  • Software Innovation (2017)
  • Systems Analysis and Development (2016)
  • Usability evaluation methods (2016)
  • User Experience (2019)

Academic service

External reviewer

Over the years, I have reviewed more than 100 papers for the following venues and journals.

Conferences
  • AfriCHI 2016.
  • Creativity & Cognition 2015, Creativity & Cognition 2024.
  • CHI 2010, CHI 2011, CHI 2012, CHI 2013, CHI 2014, CHI 2015, CHI 2016, CHI 2017, CHI 2018, CHI 2019, CHI 2020, CHI 2021, CHI 2022, CHI 2023, CHI 2024, CHI 2025.
  • CHI PLAY 2021.
  • CSCW 2015, CSCW 2018, CSCW 2020, CSCW 2021, CSCW 2022, CSCW 2024.
  • DIS 2018, DIS 2020, DIS 2024.
  • Group 2020.
  • HICSS 2013.
  • ICMI 2017, ICMI 2018, ICMI 2020, ICMI 2021, ICMI 2022.
  • Interact 2019, Interact 2021.
  • IRIS 2013.
  • IUI 2015, IUI 2016.
  • MobileHCI 2017, MobileHCI 2018.
  • NordiCHI 2012, NordiCHI 2014, NordiCHI 2016, NordiCHI 2018, NordiCHI 2020.
  • OzCHI 2016.
  • SCIS 2015.
  • SIDeR 2015, SIDeR 2016, SIDeR 2017, SIDeR 2019.
  • UbiComp 2011, UbiComp 2012, UbiComp/ISWC 2021, UbiComp/ISWC 2022, UbiComp/ISWC 2024.
Journals
  • Cyberpsychology, Behavior, and Social Networking
  • First Monday
  • Information Technology & People
  • Interacting with Computers

Conference service

  • Program Committee: IUI 2017, IUI 2019, IUI 2020, IUI 2021.
  • Part of the organizing team: IRIS/SCIS 2014.
  • Student volunteer: CHI 2010, CHI 2011, CHI 2015, UbiComp 2011, MobileHCI 2012, NordiCHI 2012, & OzCHI 2016.

Honors

  • Special recognition for outstanding review at DIS 2024.
  • Special recognition for outstanding review at CHI 2023.
  • Special recognition for outstanding review at INTERACT 2021.
  • Special recognition for outstanding review at DIS 2020.

Papers

My papers.

Talks

During my time as a student and researcher I have had the pleasure of presenting my research at different venues.

  • Facilitating Redesign with Design Cards: Experiences with Novice Designers

    The 28th Australian Conference on Computer-Human Interaction: Connected Futures (OzCHI ’16), November 29 - December 2, Launceston, Tasmania, Australia.

  • Redesign Workshop: Involving Software Developers Actively in Usability Engineering

    Industry experiences. The 8th Nordic Conference on Human-Computer Interaction: Fun, Fast, Foundational (NordiCHI \'14), October 26-29, 2014, Helsinki, Finland.

  • Usability Engineering in the Wild: How do Practitioners Integrate Usability Engineering in Software Development?

    The 5th International Conference on Human-Centered Software Engineering (HCSE 2014), September 16-18, 2014, Paderborn, Germany.

  • TagPad: Supporting Field Interviews and Analysis

    iConference 2013, February 12-15, 2013, Fort Worth, TX, USA.

  • Video Microblogging

    World Usability Day 2011, SIGCHI.dk and Ignite!, November 10, 2011, Copenhagen, Denmark.

  • Online Social Networks On-The-Go: An Exploration of Facebook on the Mobile Phone

    CSCW Horizon. The 2011 ACM conference on Computer supported cooperative work (CSCW \'11), March 19-23, 2011, Hangzhou, China.

  • Privacy Management in a Connected World: Students’ Perception of Facebook Privacy Settings

    Workshop on Collaborative Privacy Practices in Social Media. The 2011 ACM conference on Computer supported cooperative work (CSCW \'11), March 19-23, 2011, Hangzhou, China.

Research & projects

  • Facilitating Redesign with Design Cards

    When developing new HCI design concepts the idea of using design cards to facilitate the process and creativity has been explored in several different fields. In usability engineering a challenge for developers is how to correct usability problems, especially non-trivial problems. In a current study we decided to explorer if including design cards in redesign workshops would improve the proposed redesigns.

  • Active Involvement of Software Developers in Usability Engineering

    In practical usability engineering feedback is only useful if it cost effectively leads to design changes. Research has shown positive results both when providing developers with redesign proposals, and when actively involving software developers in the redesign process. Through facilitation and lecturing in interaction design provided by usability specialists, we wanted to further explorer potential advantages of actively involving developers in a collaborative redesign process.

  • Virtual Organizations - Collaboration in Scientific Communities (2011-2012)

    It is more common with larger and more distributed research groups. Particular since many disciplines are required in a development process. In this project we have developed and studied the use of an iPad app for conducting qualitative research. The main concept is that software can help a group both collecting, sharing and analyzing data.
    Advisors: Louise Barkhuus, Ph.D, & Barry Brown, Ph.D, University of California, San Diego.

  • Mobile Use of Online Social Networks (2010-2012)

    Since Online Social Networks have gained huge popularity and smartphones are becoming very common we decided to investigate how online social networks are used from mobile phones. We conducted 52 semi-structured interviews of American university students.
    Advisor: Louise Barkhuus, Ph.D. University of California, San Diego.

  • Video Integration in Social Media (2009-2010)

    In this project we studied video microblogging - the broadcasting of short video clips. We examined the use and practices surrounding this new social media phenomenon through a series of semi-structured interviews.
    Advisor: Louise Barkhuus, Ph.D. University of California, San Diego.

  • Renewable Energy Research Program (2009)

    Research course in renewable and sustainable energy. We presented a proposal for implementing access to electrical bikes at the campus of University of California, Santa Cruz.
    Advisor: Joel Kubby, Ph.D. University of California, Santa Cruz.

  • Human Factors in Computer Information Security (2008)

    Risks in information security are often the result of violations by the users. In this project we investigated information security violations in a large US based public organization.
    Advisor: Peter Hoonakker, Ph.D, University of Wisconsin-Madison.

Grants & scholarships

I am grateful for the fincial support I have recived from a number of different organizations.

  • Knud Højgaard’s Foundation (Knud Højgaards Fond) (2015)
  • TC Electronic (2014)
  • The Otto Mønsted Foundation (Otto Mønsted Fonden) (2013 & 2014)
  • Aalborg University (2012 - 2015)
  • Katapult, University of Copenhagen (2009)
  • William & Hugo Evers Fondation (William & Hugo Evers Fond) (2009)
  • The Nordea-foundation (Nordea-fonden) (2009)
  • CEO Ib Henriksen\'s Foundation (Direktør Ib Henriksens Fond) (2009)
  • The Rudolph Als Foundation (Rudolph Als Fondet) (2007 & 2010)
  • Danish Education Support Agency (2003 - 2010)

Language proficiency

Danish:  Fluent (native language)
English:  Academic level
German:  Beginner