I am provost, from Jan 1 2021, for research and innovation at the University of Copenhagen. Before this I was the founding director, 2016-20, of the Copenhagen Center for Social Data Science (SODAS), co-deputy director of the Center for Economic Behavior and Inequality (CEBI) established in 2017 through a grant from the the Danish National Research Foundation, and co-founder of the M.Sc. in Social Data Science. In 2019-20, I chaired the Independent Research Fund Denmark (DFF). I continue to be professor of economics and was recently appointed to be member of the Danish government’s Commission for 2nd generation reforms 2020-22.
I have received a Sapere Aude Research Leader grant (2011-5), an ERC CoG (2013-7), and a 2016 Elite Researcher Award from the Danish Ministry of Education and Research. I am, from 01/2020, co-PI in DISTRACT, an ERC-Advanced Grant project on digital distraction led by Morten Axel Pedersen, and, most recently, received an inaugural Villum Synergy Grant – on predicting life trajectories from massive data – jointly with Sune Lehmann.
PhD in Economics, 2002
University of Copenhagen
MSc in Economics, 1998
University of Copenhagen
Topics for thesis supervision
Ethics, Politics and Law
Admitting students from 2020
Introduction to Data Science Tools in Social Science
Remembrance of things past