My research focuses on the genetics of eating disorders, and some of my current projects are on the genetic and enviromental underpinnings of anorexia nervosa severity, patterns and prediction of diagnostic transition in eating disorders, and cross-disorder examination of anorexia nervosa and obsessive-compulsive disorder risk. My main goal is to develop multifactorial models to predict eating disorder risk, course, and outcome using epidemiological data from the Danish registers, genotype information, and biomarkers measured at birth.

Over the years, I have forged interdisciplinary collaborations with clinicians, epidemiologists, basic scientists, and statistical geneticists—both in Denmark and internationally. I serve as Co-Chair of the international Psychiatric Genomics Consortium Eating Disorders Working Group, hold affiliate faculty positions with the Department of Biomedicine at Aarhus University, Department of Medical and Epidemiological Biostatistics at Karolinska Institutet (Sweden), and Department of Psychiatry at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (USA), and routinely collaborate with colleagues from these institutions. Some of my other key collaborations involve Aarhus University Hospital, Aalborg University, Region Hovedstaden, Statens Serum Institut, University of Copenhagen, University of Southern Denmark, University of Oslo, and University of Toronto.

My primary ​​responsibility is research leadership, including fundraising through grant applications. The research group led by Liselotte Vogdrup Petersen and myself conduct psychiatric epidemiology research with a particular focus on eating disorder research. I supervise PhD students, postdocs, and data analysts. Furthermore, I serve as Co-Chair of the Psychistric Genomics Consortium Eating Disorders Working Group (https://pgc.unc.edu/)