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.