Senior research scientist at the GEUS; cand. scient, geology, 1984, Ph.D., geology 1989, both from Copenhagen University; extensive field work experience in Denmark, Greenland, Antarctica, Uganda, Danish waters, former director of the Arctic Station in Greenland, chief editor of the Bulletin of the Geological Society of Denmark, referee for numerous international scientific journals, member of the editorial board of Boreas. Opponent at doctoral defences in Denmark, Sweden, Finland, Germany and The Netherlands, former evaluator of Marie Curie fellowships proposals; former chairman of the Danish National Committee for INQUA; H-index 55, citations 9489, both according to google scholar; research interests: climate and environmental history during the Quaternary, Quaternary geology of Denmark and Greenland, palaeoecology, the history of the Baltic Sea, geochronology, sea-level changes; member of the Danish Geological Society, awarded the gold medal from Copenhagen University.