Past employment Military service as first lieutenant 1985-1986 in the Royal Danish Army. House officer at departments of urology, endocrinology and infectious diseases at university hospitals in Copenhagen 1986-1988. Research fellow at Laboratory for Infectious Diseases, Copenhagen University Hospital in Hvidovre, 1988- 1991. Head of Research at the Laboratory for Infectious Diseases with 12 employees 1991-1999. Present occupation Head of the Department of Documentation, Research and Information at the Danish Centre for Rare Diseases and Disorders from 1999.
Subjects are retrovirology, lectinology and protein chemistry.
Author of 34 articles, chapters or books on popular science or the philosophy of science. Author 1994-1996 of a weekly column on popular science in a national newspaper. Teaching experience Invited speaker at more than 70 conferences, meetings, or postgraduate courses at home or abroad. Tutor for six postgraduate PhD students. Referee for several international journals.