Academic Positions:
2013-: Professor, Aarhus University
2016-2021: Guest Professor, School of Economics and Management, Lund University, Sweden
2014 : Visiting Scholar, Rady School of Management, University of California, San Diego
2006-2013: Associate Professor, Aarhus University
2000-2006: Associate and Assistant Professor, Aarhus School of Business
2000 : Visiting Scholar, Department of Economics, University of California, San Diego
1998 : Visiting Scholar, Finance Department, Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania
Education:
2001: PhD (Finance), Aarhus School of Business
1997: MSc (Economics and Management), Aarhus University (cand.oecon.)
External Activities:
2025-: Board member of AUFF Invest and AUFF Invest Forum
2021: Member of expert group for evaluating the active management of the Norwegian Government Pension Fund Global (Norwegian oil fund)
2021-: Board member of Rejsegarantifonden (The Danish Travel Guarantee Fund)
Administrative Activities:
2024-: Director of Studies, BSc programs in Economics and Business Administration (HA, BSC, SOC), Aarhus BSS, Aarhus University
2021-2024: Strategic Project Manager for retention and internationalization, Aarhus BSS, Aarhus University
2014–2017: Chairman of the School Board of Studies, Aarhus BSS, Aarhus University
2011-2017: Director of Studies, BSc/MSc program in Economics and Management (oecon.), Aarhus University
Editorial Work:
2010-2025: Associate Editor of International Review of Financial Analysis.
2006-: Member of the Editorial Board of the Journal of Futures Markets.
2005-2017: Member of the Editorial Board of the Danish Journal Finans/Invest.
Awards and Research Grants:
2009-2011: The Danish Councils for Independent Research: “Empirical Modeling of International Financial Markets during Turbulent Periods and Structural Changes”, DKK 2,970,000, a research collaboration directed by Charlotte Christiansen.
2006-2008: Danish Social Science Research Council: “Towards Integration of International Financial Markets”, DKK 641,000, an individual research project.
2006: Winner of the OMX Copenhagen Paper Prize Competition (joint with Juanna S. Joensen and Jesper Rangvid)
2005: Winner of the Josseph de la Vega Prize 2005 awarded by the Federation of European Stock Exchanges.
2004: Winner of the Statoil Research Prize (in Danish: Modtager af Statoils Økonomiske Forskningspris)
2002: Winner of the Tietgen Gold Medal Prize, a prize for young researchers in business studies (in Danish: Modtager af Tietgenprisen uddelt af Foreningen til Unge Handelsmænds Uddannelse (FUHU))