Education:

• PhD in Mathematics (Aug 2007), Stony Brook University, New York.
  Attended the University of Glasgow, UK, for 1 year as a visiting research student (Aug 2006 - Aug 2007).
• MSc in Mathematics (July 2003), University of Copenhagen, Denmark.
  Attended the University of Utah, USA, for 3 months as a visiting research student (Jan - Apr 2003).
  Attended the University of Oxford, UK, for 1 year as a visiting research student (Sep 2000 - July 2001).
• BSc in Mathematics and Physics (Aug 2000), University of Copenhagen, Denmark.
  
• Physics and Chemistry courses for entry to university (Aug 1996 - May 1997), VUC Oeresund, Denmark.
• HHX (Business Exam) (June 1994), Aarhus Business College, Denmark.

Work Experience:

Teaching assistant for the following university level courses:

• (Fall 2005) Fundamental concepts of mathematics, Masters level course for teachers, Stony Brook University, USA;
• (Fall 2003) Calculus II, undergraduate course at Stony Brook University, USA;
• (Fall 2001) Metric spaces and Hilbert spaces, 2nd year course at University of Copenhagen, Denmark.

(Sep 1994 - May 1996) Full time employee in the marketing department of Grundfos Pumps K.K., the Japanese subsidiary of Grundfos, one of Denmark's largest engineering companies. My tasks included the following:

• I was one of the main organisers of GMM 1996: GMM is the annual meeting of the Grundfos general managers. In 1996 it took place in Japan and there were 80 participants from 26 countries. My tasks included communicating with participants in the months leading up to the event, producing a pamphlet in English with programme, maps, tourist information etc., acting as a guide and interpreter throughout the event.
• communication: verbal and written communication in Danish, English and Japanese; assisting communication amongst the following groups of people: Japanese and Danish employees at Grundfos Pumps K.K. in Japan, employees at Grundfos Head office in Denmark, Japanese customers.
• marketing tasks: designing and ordering printed matter such as catalogues, advertisements etc.; representing Grundfos at tradeshows; participating in promotional events with customers in Japan.

Mathematical research:

My research interests have mainly been in differential geometry. I was first introduced to this area during a one year stay at the University of Oxford at the beginning of my Masters programme. During this time I wrote the expository project Quotient manifolds by group actions which describes quotient constructions in several areas of differential geometry. I finished my Masters programme with the thesis Dirac operators on compact symmetric spaces in which I combined differential geometry with representation theory and Lie theory.

My PhD thesis A symplectic isotopy of a Dehn twist on a product of projective spaces is in the field of symplectic geometry. This branch of differential geometry originated from Hamiltonian mechanics. The mathematical spaces studied in symplectic geometry are called symplectic manifolds. Symplectic geometers are often interested in the group of symplectomorphisms on a given symplectic manifold, i.e., the collection of maps on the manifold that preserve the symplectic structure. In my PhD thesis I studied some specific higher dimensional examples of symplectic manifolds to see whether the symplectomorphism group had similar properties to that of well-known examples in dimension 4. These examples were constructed using toric geometry, a branch of algebraic and symplectic geometry that describes some particularly well-behaved manifolds.

Papers:

• A symplectic isotopy of a Dehn twist on CP^n x CP^{n+1}, article in preparation
• Holomorphic and symplectic coordinates on toric manifolds, article in preparation
• A symplectic isotopy of a Dehn twist on a product of projective spaces, PhD thesis (2007), Stony Brook University, USA
• The Dirac operator on compact symmetric spaces, Masters thesis (2003), University of Copenhagen, Denmark
• Quotient manifolds by group actions (2001), used in the course Geometric moduli spaces and TQFT, University of Aarhus, Denmark.