Her research is focused on history of science, science & policy and environmental history in the 20th century and is based upon archival research and studies of historic publications. She is a history graduate from University of Southern Denmark and in 2010 received her PhD from University of Tasmania, Australia. Her first postdoc was at Centre for Science Studies, Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Aarhus where she worked on a project about science in Greenland during the Cold War. She is an associated researcher at the Niels Bohr Library and a visiting researcher fellow at Environmental Humanities at Trinity College.