CV

A short version of the CV — education, employment, and positions of trust. For a fuller picture of who I am and what I work on, see About. For more in-depth information about my work, see the publications page.

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Education

Ph.D., Technical University of Denmark (DTU Informatics) — 2007 The Structure of Complex Networks (DTU Orbit). Advisor: Lars Kai Hansen. Co-advisors: Andrew D. Jackson, Mogens Høgh Jensen.

M.Sc. in Physics, Niels Bohr Institute, University of Copenhagen — 2003 Spires on the Building of Science: Complex Networks and Scientific Excellence. Advisor: Benny Lautrup.

B.Sc. in Physics, Niels Bohr Institute, University of Copenhagen — 2000 Fighting Entanglement with Entanglement: On Decoherence in Quantum Systems and Quantum Error Correction. Co-authored with Søren Stenild Juhl. Advisor: Benny Lautrup.

Employment

Current

Professor of Networks and Complexity Science — 2019–present DTU Compute, Technical University of Denmark.

Professor of Social Data Science — 2020–present Center for Social Data Science (SODAS), University of Copenhagen.

Adjunct Professor of Social Network Science — 2017–2022 Department of Sociology, University of Copenhagen.

Associate Professor of Social Informatics — 2012–2019 DTU Compute, Technical University of Denmark.

Adjunct Associate Professor of Statistical Mechanics of Complex Networks — 2013–2018 Niels Bohr Institute, University of Copenhagen.

Assistant Professor — 2010–2012 DTU Informatics (later DTU Compute), Technical University of Denmark.

Postdoctoral Research Fellow — 2009–2010 Institute for Quantitative Social Science, Harvard University, and College of Computer and Information Science, Northeastern University.

Research Fellow — 2007–2010 Center for Cancer Systems Biology, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Harvard University.

Postdoctoral Research Associate — 2007–2009 Center for Complex Network Research, Department of Physics, Northeastern University.

Postdoctoral Research Associate — 2007 Informatics and Mathematical Modeling, Technical University of Denmark.

Honors and prizes

Best Danish Research Environment (2023, awarded by Det Unge Akademi to the Social Complexity Lab); DFF EliteForsk Senior Prize (2022); Columbus Prize (2021, co-recipient with the HOPE project on Denmark’s COVID-19 response); Best Paper Award at IC2S2 2018 at Northwestern University, for Evidence of Complex Contagion of Information in Social Media; Copenhagen Kongres & Event Award (2013, for organising NetSci 2013); Reinholdt W. Jorck’s Prize (2011).

Nominated for best teacher at DTU on four separate occasions; nominated for best PhD advisor at DTU.

Positions of trust

Leadership and advisory

Chief Scientist — 2025–present Danish National Centre for Artificial Intelligence in Society (CAISA).

Collaboratory Lead — 2022–present Pioneer Center for AI.

Member, Expert Group on Tech Giants — 2022–2024 Advisory group to the Danish government on the regulation of large technology companies.

Member, Danish COVID-19 Modeling Task Force — 2020–2022 Established by the Danish government to model the spread of COVID-19.

Advisory Board, Smittestop Contact Tracing App — 2021 Agency of Digitization, Danish Ministry of Health.

Board Member, A.N. Neergaard og Hustrus Fond — ongoing

Academy memberships

Member, Royal Danish Academy of Sciences and Letters — 2024–present

Member, Akademiet for de Tekniske Videnskaber (Danish Academy of Technical Sciences) — 2021–present

Member, The Young Academy — 2012–2017 Junior tier of the Royal Danish Academy of Sciences and Letters (standard 5-year tenure).

Scientific society boards

Scientific Advisory Board, Modeling Network for Severe Infectious Diseases (MONID) — 2026–2029 German federal initiative for pandemic and infectious-disease modelling.

Executive Board Member & Co-Chair of the Conference Oversight Committee, Network Science Society — 2012–2024

Member, Nordic Network of Network Scientists — 2011–2014 NordForsk-funded; group leader of the Danish section.

Editorial roles

Editor, PNAS Academic Editor, PLOS One Academic Editor, Applied Network Sciences Academic Editor, Frontiers of Physics Member, PLOS Data Guidelines Board

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