Short presentation

Main areas of competence

• Ecophysiology
• Plant anatomy and morphology
• Woody plant biology
• Orchid mycorrhiza and other symbioses
• Germination biology, cultivation in vitro of plants, tissues and fungi

Ongoing research

• Tree bark - structure and biology

Teaching

• Tree Biology and Arboriculture: General and applied tree physiology 
• Christmas trees and greenery production course: Tree architecture, growth patterns in Nordmann Fir and growth regulation
• Supervision of bachelor, master and PhD-students

Research evaluation.

Served on the board in National Agricultural Research Council (1997-2003) and the committees for cases of scientific dishonesty (2003-9). Ad hoc evaluator in several foreign science foundations.

CV

2003-2009 Member of the committees under the Ministry of Research for evaluating cases of scientific dishonesty

2000-present Senior scientist, Forest & Landscape Denmark, now as Institut of Geosciences and Nature Resource Management, Sektion for Forest, Nature, and Biomass, University of Copenhagen.

1997-2003 Member of the National Agricultural Research Council

1996. D.Sc. at the Faculty of Natural Science, University of Copenhagen, on a thesis entitled: Germinationg biology and mycotrophy in terrestrial orchids.

1993-99 Senior scientist, Danish Institute of Plant and Soil Science (presently part of University of Aarhus)

1991-1993 Senior Postdoctoral Fellow, Smithsonian Environmental Research Center, Edgewater, Maryland, USA.
1989-1990 Temporary positions, funded by University of Copenhagen and the National Agricultural Research Council
1985-1989 Assistant professor, University of Copenhagen.
1983-1985 Postdoctoral grant, University of Copenhagen
1982 Ph.D., University of Copenhagen. Thesis: Development of stomata in Liliiflorae.
1979-1982 Predoctoral grant, University of Copenhagen
1979 M.Sc. in biologi, University of Copenhagen. Thesis: Knowltonia Salisb. (Ranunculaceae) - a taxonomic revision
1968 Baccalaureate in mathematical and natural science from Øregaard Gymnasium
1950 Born in Copenhagen