Curriculum vitae

Current activities

• I work in my own company, which does contract based research in analytial models of investments and the financial system; delivers software innovations; and gives courses on topics in complex systems and on Open Source software.
• I teach a part of two courses in physics of complex systems at the Niels Bohr Institute.
• I am an external examinator at the Danish software engineering (datamatiker) schools.
• I coordinate the creation of Danish and Faroese Open Source spell checking dictionaries, write about Open Source and Open Standards, and is on the system administrator team of the Linux user group for Skåne and Sjælland (SSLUG).

Education

• Ph.D. in physics with a thesis titled Experimental study of turbulent diffusion using particle tracking at the Niels Bohr Institute and Risø National Laboratory, 2002. A part of the thesis project was done at Laboratoire de Physique Statistique de l'Ecole Normale Supérieure (Statistical Physics Laboratory of ENS), Paris. Thesis supervisor: Mogens Høgh Jensen.
• HD 1. del (business economics) at Copenhagen Business School, 2002.
• Management of Research and Innovation, Copenhagen Business School and Risø National Laboratory, 2000.
• M.Sc. in physics with a thesis titled Measurements of Relative Diffusion in turbulence, 1997. A part of the thesis project was done at University of Pittsburgh. Thesis supervisor: Mogens T. Levinsen.
• B.Sc. in mathematics and physics, 1993.

Employment

• Consultant, 2009-.
• Analyst, Analytic Support Unit, Nykredit Asset Management, 2008-2009.
• Lecturer in statistics, CEUS Business School, 2007.
• Lecturer in software engineering and head of system administration, DMU-Syd, 2006-2008.
• Bioinformatics Researcher, CRS4, 2003-2006.
• Teaching assistant, University of Copenhagen, 2002 (mathematics for biologists).
• Joint European Torus, 1993 (building on a x-ray spectrometer).
• Scientific programmer, Danish Institute for Occupational Health, 1992-1994 (software for quality control of laboratory measurements).
• Scientific programmer, Geologish-Paläontologish Institut, Kiel, 1992-1993 (oceanography).

Professional activities

• Worked on the project Asian Social Web with the Scandinavian Tourist Board and Copenhagen Business School. We created a text-mining tool to find blog entries, which can be used to make Asian tourists interested in travelling to the Nordic countries, 2009-2010.
• Part of the production team for Crimeville (an on-line detective-riddle game), 2009-2010.
• Developed Lydbaseret opslag (a dictionary look-up application prototype targeted at users with spelling difficulties) for Gads Forlag, 2002-2003.
• ENAM cruise with H/S Dana, 1997 (oceanography).
• An application of simulated annealing: Optimisation of programs for parallel computers, 1996-1997.
• ENAM cruise with R/V Pelagia, 1995 (oceanography).
• Sorø-dage, Sorø akademi, 1994 (physics summer school for high-school students).
• Flying Circus of Physics, Copenhagen, Sevilla, and Amsterdam, 1992-1994 (physics in the street shows).
• Poseidon cruise 194, Faroe-Iceland-Ridge, 1992 (oceanography and integration of data acquisition and navigation information systems).
• Cornell University, Medical College, New York, 1991 (programming, bioinformatics).

Awards and scholarships

• First prize in the Nokia Open 2010 developers' competition, for the design of a location-aware calendar for the Nokia N900 (2010).
• Ph.D. scholarship from Forskerakademiet (1998).
• The Lørup scholarship for students at the Niels Bohr Institute (1994).
• Fourth prize in the young researchers competition, JP-Forsker '93, and participation in the conference Science and the Media at CERN, for the design of a new programming language (1993).

Grants

• Grant for the project Asian Social Web from Nordisk InnovationsCenter (2009, NOK 1'814'000). With Søren Leerskov and Ana Marìa Munar.
• Grant for the project Udvikling af professionsbachelor i digital interaktiv underholdning og entrepenørskab (developing a new undergraduate education in information technology) from Vækstforum Sjælland (2007, DKK 973'000). With Jens Lautrup Nørgaard and Erik Kristiansen.

Lectures, conferences, etc.

Invited talks

• Physics and fincance - med en fysikers øjne. Dataanalyse i finanssektoren (Data Analysis in Finance), 2009.
• Fysik i finansverdenen. Videnskabens Verden, Danmarks Radio, 2008. Radio programme on the use of physics in finance.
• Systematic binding variations on cDNA microarrays. Bio-complexity, Niels Bohr Institute, 2007.
• Gainers 'n' Drainers. Game Developers Conference 2007, Mobile Game Innovation Hunt. Finalist presentation. Developed with Erik Kristiansen.
• Linux og Open Source på en it-uddannelse (Linux and Open Source in an IT education). Linuxforum 2007. With Jesper Nyerup.
• Practical Office Automation. LinuxDay/Cagliari, 2005.
• Lectures on Open Source applications and servers at Corso di Laurea in Informatica, Università degli Studi di Cagliari (Department of Computer Science, University of Cagliari), 2005-2006.
• Building graphical user interfaces with GLADE and Gtk+/GtkAda. LinuxDay/Cagliari, 2004.

Presentations

• Crimeville - using Ada inside an on-line multi-user game. Ada-Europe 2011/Ada Connection, 16th International Conference on Reliable Software Technologies, 2011.
• An Efficient Implementation of Persistent Objects. Ada-Europe 2010, 15th International Conference on Reliable Software Technologies, 2010.
• Asian Social Web: Travel 2.0 promotion in Asia Pacific. INTO 2009, VI International Seminar on Innovation and Tourism, 2009.
• Collaborative personalised TV programming. AXMEDIS 2006, 2nd International Conference on Automated Cross Media Content for Multi-channel Distribution, 2006.
• Linux clusters. uptime(1) - celebrating one billion seconds of Unix, 2001.
• 3D particle tracking - measurements on turbulence. Danish Physical Society annual meeting, 1999.
• Lectures on Unix shell programming at meetings in Skåne Sjælland Linux User Group.
• Lectures on configuring the web server Apache at meetings in Skåne Sjælland Linux User Group.
• Measurements of structure functions and relative dispersion in turbulence. EU network workshop on Intermittency in Turbulence, 1998.

Volunteer activities

• Board member in A/B Sorte Hest, 2010-.
• Board member in Ada Denmark, 2005-.
• Board member in Skåne Sjælland Linux User Group, 2000, 2001 (treasurer), 2002 (substitute), 2003, 2005-2006, 2010-.
• Coordinator for "Den Store Danske Ordliste" and "Føroyska orðalistin til rættlestur" (Danish and Faroese spell checking dictionaries), 2000-.
• System administrator and webmaster in Skåne Sjælland Linux User Group, 1999-.
• Linux Counter Country Manager for the Faroe Islands, 2001-2007.
• Member of the Standards Committee of the Danish Unix User Group, 2001-2006.
• Co-editor of the book series Linux - Friheden til ..., 2000-2006.
• Meeting coordinator for Skåne Sjælland Linux User Group, 1999-2006.
• Developed a Faroese hyphenation table and other Faroese localisation for LaTeX, 2004.
• Member of the Danish Open Source localisation group, 2000-2004.
• System administrator and technical webmaster for the LEGO CAD user group, LDraw.org, 1998-2003.
• Co-founder of Linux-áhugafelagið - the Faroese Linux user group, 2000.

Miscellaneous

Cultural experiences:

Lived 6 years in the Faroe Islands (until I finished high-school)

Worked 5 months in USA (part of my studies)

Worked 7 months in France (part of my Ph.D. project)

Worked 3 years in Italy (postdoctoral position)

Worked in Germany, England and USA for shorter periods.

Languages:

Danish, English, Faroese (fluent)

Italian (good, fluent in technical topics)

German, French (limited)

Norwegian (nynorsk and bokmål), Swedish, Icelandic (only reading)

Programming:

Ada, Bourne Shell (professional, my favourites)

COMAL, BASIC, C, C++, Java, Pascal, Perl (professional)

Fortran (my first programming language, 1985)

Operating systems:

System administration:

Linux

Use:

Unix (AIX, HP-UX, OSF/1, Solaris, FreeBSD), Linux, OS/2, DOS, Windows XP.