As a professor of human environmental and molecular toxicology, I research the effects of environmental chemicals on human health and reproduction using experimental and molecular epidemiological methods. Focusing on endocrine-disrupting chemicals, I investigate how lifestyle and diet affect pregnant women, fetal development, and health later in life.

I hold a Master of Science (cand.scient.) and a Ph.D. in Molecular Biology, and I have formal training in research management.

Using epidemiology and molecular experimental cell biology, I research the ability of environmental and endocrine-disrupting chemicals to interfere with human reproduction, fetal, and further development. Lifestyle, diet, and biomonitoring data help elucidate environmental exposures. Actual mixed exposures of environmental chemicals are isolated from blood and tissue and analyzed for effects on cellular and hormone receptors.

My research contributes to health prevention, advice, and regulation of environmental chemicals.

I established and am the course coordinator for the elective course Arctic Medicine for medical graduate students. Through lectures, group work, and project work, students are introduced to medical practice in Greenland, Arctic Medicine including lifestyle and common diseases, prevention, environmental exposures, and the impact of climate change.

I am the coordinator and AU supervisor for medical students' self-organized clinical placements in Greenland and the Nordic countries, the contact person for external supervisors and co-assessors of clinical reports. I established and was responsible for the AU summer course Mother-Child-Health for several years. I lecture on endocrine-disrupting chemicals in the Public Health Environment and Health program. I have contributed to a textbook on Environmental and Occupational Medicine.

I collaborate with a number of national and international researchers in Europe, the Nordic countries, the Arctic region, and China. In the European project PARC, we participate in three work packages, and I am the coordinator of an effect-marker working group. Since 1916, I have been a Key National Expert in the Arctic Assessment Monitoring Programme for Human Health, actively collaborating with many Arctic researchers, e.g., Cheryl Khoury, Section Head for Health Canada; Assoc. Prof. Jean-Pierre Desforges, University of Winnipeg, Canada; Prof. Arja Ratio, University of Oulu; and Prof. Pal Weihe, Faroe Islands. Overall, these cross-disciplinary collaborations within environmental exposures and effects on human health provide good international experience and perspectives.

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Based on my research in environmental exposures and effects on human health, I am available to the media, policymakers, and other decision-makers, and I advise, among others, the Danish Environmental Protection Agency and the Danish Health Authority. I have also participated in and continue to participate in a number of panels/steering groups:

Acting president of the EUROTOX 2024 conference in Copenhagen 2024, EUROTOX 2024 (2020-2024); Nominated as the 2024 EUROTOX Honorary Member recognition.
Member of the Advisory Committee on per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances, Danish Health Authority, Danish Health Authority (2022-2023)
Member of the Advisory Committee on Pesticide Research, Danish Environmental Protection Agency, Danish Environmental Protection Agency (2019-)
Key National Expert for the Danish Environmental Protection Agency, Human Health Assessment Group, Arctic Monitoring Assessment Programme, the Human Health Assessment Group (HHAG), AMAP (2016-)
President of the Danish Society of Toxicology & Pharmacology, Danish Society of Toxicology & Pharmacology (2014-2022)
Acting chairperson and member of the steering committee of the Arctic Biobank at The Centre for Arctic Health, AU.
Elected member of the executive board committee of EUROTOX (Federation of European Toxicologists & European Societies of Toxicology), EUROTOX (2014-2018)
Business member of IUTOX and EUROTOX.
Member of the Danish National Board of Health, Advisory Scientific Committee on Environment Health.
Member of the working group for interdisciplinary collaboration at the Health Faculty, AU.
Member of the working group of The Danish Board of Technology concerning Environment and Children.
Member of the research assessment panel (2007) for the Institute of the Slovak Academy of Sciences, assessing the Institute of Endocrinology, University of Bratislava.

My primary responsibility is being the research leader for the Center for Arctic Health and Molecular Epidemiology. I also supervise postdocs, research assistants, master's, and ERASMUS students. I am involved in several research projects, such as EU-PARC, which compares chemical exposures and assesses health risks. My research also includes populations in Greenland, and I am the daily manager of the Greenlandic birth cohort ACCEPT and the "Biological BioBank." In ACCEPT, we follow up on the exposure, development, and health of mothers (fathers) and children every five years. For several years, I have been a Key National Expert in the "Arctic Monitoring and Assessment Programme."