Senior Scientist

• Dec 2022 - Present

Research Assistant Professor

• Aug 2021 - Present

Visiting Investigator

• Feb 2019 - Aug 2021

Developing and testing tiny tags for detecting acoustic vocalizations of fish and invertebrates; both logging tags (requiring retrieval) and acoustic pinger tags (requiring concurrent acoustic monitoring array) are in development. Great collaboration with Drs. Aran Mooney, David Mann, Aaron Rice, and Holger Klinck. Developing and testing tiny tags for detecting acoustic vocalizations of fish and invertebrates; both logging tags (requiring retrieval) and acoustic pinger tags (requiring concurrent acoustic monitoring array) are in development. Great collaboration with Drs. Aran Mooney, David Mann, Aaron Rice, and Holger Klinck.

Associate Lecturer

• Sep 2018 - Dec 2018

Teaching undergraduate Marine Bioacoustics course, with active, experiential learning and collaborative peer learning elements Teaching undergraduate Marine Bioacoustics course, with active, experiential learning and collaborative peer learning elements

AIAS COFUND Junior Fellow

• Mar 2016 - Sep 2018

AIAS COFUND Junior Fellow funded jointly by Aarhus University Research Foundation and the European Union’s 7th Framework Programme under grant agreement no 609033. AIAS COFUND Junior Fellow funded jointly by Aarhus University Research Foundation and the European Union’s 7th Framework Programme under grant agreement no 609033.

Post Doctoral Fellow

• Mar 2014 - Feb 2016

Coordination and decision-making in pilot whale social groups Position: Postdoctoral fellow at Princeton University, financed by the Carlsberg Foundation, in collaboration with Profs. Simon Levin, Daniel Rubenstein and Iain Couzin at the Ecology and Evolutionary Biology department. Project: Examine social coordination mechanisms and leader-follower hierarchies in toothed whales, especially long-finned pilot whales. Coordination and decision-making in pilot whale social groups Position: Postdoctoral fellow at Princeton University, financed by the Carlsberg Foundation, in collaboration with Profs. Simon Levin, Daniel Rubenstein and Iain Couzin at the Ecology and Evolutionary Biology department. Project: Examine social coordination mechanisms and leader-follower hierarchies in toothed whales, especially long-finned pilot whales.

Post Doctoral Fellow

• Jul 2011 - Feb 2014

Social Dynamics in Toothed Whales Position: Postdoctoral Fellow at Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, financed by the Danish Research Council, in collaboration with Peter L. Tyack and Laela Sayigh of Woods Hole Biology department. Project: Investigate the social structure, cohesion mechanisms and social hierarchies of toothed whale species. We deploy WHOI-developed acoustic and movement tags (DTAGs) on multiple animals within a social group of long-finned pilot whales to investigate social coordination of behavior and flow of information within the social group while developing analytical tools applicable to a broad variety of species. Show less

Post Doc

• Apr 2011 - Jun 2011

Post Doc with Prof. Peter T. Madsen examining delphinid sound production mechanisms as well as echolocation parameters of several species of delphinids (Platanista gangetica gangetica, Orcaella brevirostris, Stenella frontalis) Post Doc with Prof. Peter T. Madsen examining delphinid sound production mechanisms as well as echolocation parameters of several species of delphinids (Platanista gangetica gangetica, Orcaella brevirostris, Stenella frontalis)

Student teacher

• Feb 2005 - Jan 2011

Teaching experience:•Assistant Instructor: Microbiology*, Spring 2005•Assistant Instructor: Genetics*, Spring 2006 + 2009•Assistant Instructor: Genetics, remote teaching*, Fall 2006•Lecturer: Visitors service (High-School level lectures)*, 2007-2009•Assistant Instructor: Applied Statistics*, Fall 2007-2009•Assistant Instructor: Animal Physiology: Muscles, Nerves and Hormones *, Fall 2007 + 2008•Instructor: Acoustic Localization Workshop, Kerteminde, DK, Spring 2009•Instructor: Acoustic Communication graduate course, SNAK, DK, Fall 2009•Guest Lecturer: Marine Mammal Biology, Univ. Southern Denmark, DK, Spring 2010+2011* = Dept Bioscience, Aarhus University Show less

BSC and Masters Student

• Sep 2002 - Jan 2007

Field experience as bachelor student:During my bachelor, field work was conducted at high latitudes of Andenes, Norway, under the tutoring of Bertel Møhl, Aarhus University. In collaboration with scientists from Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI) we recorded close to on-axis Sperm whale clicks using a custom-made hydrophone array deployed at 1000m depth as well as digital acoustic recording tags (DTAGs) deployed on the whales by scientists from WHOI.Field experience as a Masters student:During my fourth year as a university student, I was involved in field work on Short-finned pilot whales off the coast of Tenerife, spain. Together with Peter T. Madsen (DK) and Magnus Wahlberg (DK) and in collaboration with scientists Mark Johnson (WHOI, USA) and Natacha Aguilar Soto (La Laguna Universidad, ESP) we recorded pilot whales using DTAGs and a vertical 4-hydrophone array to study their acoustic signal properties, feeding ecology, diving behaviour and group coordination. Show less