Research interests
I've been fortunate to study the brain in health and in sickness - in humans, animals, and models.
I'm currently working on flexible behaviors using rodents' ability to navigate intricate virtual realities.
A few jargony key words to capture my ongoing work: place and grid cells; remapping; replay; high-density electrophysiology; state-prediction-based model.
Education
2019 - now
University College London
Sainsbury Wellcome Centre for Neural Circuits and Behaviour
PhD student
2012 - 2019
University of Southern Denmark
Medical doctor
Internship in neurosurgery and special focus on neurostimulation treatment for chronic pain.
Scientific work
2019 - now
Sainsbury Wellcome Centre, University College London
PhD supervised by Neil Burgess, Caswell Barry, and Tom Mrsic-Flogel
Navigation, virtual reality, chronic high-density electrophysiology in mouse hippocampus and enthorhinal cortex. Currently working on how brains build and reinstate cognitive maps for flexible behaviours.
2017 - 2019
Odense University Hospital, Dept of Neurosurgery, Unit for Neurostimulation
Supervised by Frantz Rom Poulsen and Morten Blichfeldt-Eckhardt
Real-world evidence evaluation, patient follow-up, spinal-cord neurostimulation, chronic pain.
2015 - 2019
Columbia University
Supervised by Jackie Gottlieb
Visual attention and information sampling in rhesus macaques, acute single neuron electrophysiology in lateral intraparietal cortex.
Grants and awards
Many thanks to multiple funders that have supported my work over the past years
Wellcome
The Independent Research Fund Denmark
Reinholdt W. Jorck og Hustrus Fond
Viet-Jacobsen Fonden
Anglo-Danish Society
Marie og MB Richters Fond