Geology
In 2012, I earned my PhD degree in geology from the University of Copenhagen, Denmark. Then I moved to the US, where I worked for two years in New York City as a post-doctoral researcher at the Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, Columbia University. After that I conducted a two-year study at Stanford University in California. I then moved back permanently to Denmark, where spent one year as a postdoc at GEUS. I am currently an Associate Professor at the Department of Geosciences and Natural Resource Management, University of Copenhagen, and I am an associate editor for the high impact journal Geoscience Frontiers.
Mountain climbing
Living in a flat country like Denmark provides some challenges if you
want
to
become an alpinist, but if
you are
motivated and willing to travel a lot, then this is easily overcome.
My focus in climbing has been to go on expeditions to all of the great mountain ranges
of
the
world and
climb the
classic alpine test pieces, although I have also managed to do a few first ascents.
For me mountaineering is about pushing yourself and applying hard earned skills and
fitness,
but
it is
also about
adventure, friendship, enjoying the most spectacular scenery the world has to offer,
making
life
less
complicated and
focusing on the task of reaching a summit, simply because you can. However, to reach a
summit is
not the
main criteria
of success in alpine climbing. In fact, many of my best and most memorable experiences
in
the
mountains
are from
expeditions where I did not succeed. Adventure and the process of learning should always
be
valued as a
goal in itself.