The Danish Centre for Studies in Research and Research Policy

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2019-2023: PhD Fellow at the Danish Centre for Studies in Research and Research Policy, Aarhus University

2021: Research stay at Technische Universität Berlin, Institut für Soziologie (host/local supervisors: Grit Laudel and Prof. Jochen Gläser)

2017: MSc in Sociology, Department of Sociology, University of Copenhagen 

2014: Visiting Graduate student at the Department of Sociology, University of California at Berkeley 

Main fields of interest: Metascience, science studies, sociology of science

Scientific focus areas: Stratification in science, reward structures and mechanisms of recognition in science, the scientific profession

Research interests: the scientific workforce, career paths in academia, scientific elites, prosopography, biographies of scientists, science funding, problem choice

My PhD project is interested in the broader question of how national knowledge hierarchies in Danish and British science are sustained by the production and reproduction of academic elites. To be precise, the project compares the career trajectories of elite researchers in ‘quantum information science’ and ‘time series econometrics’ with affiliations to British and Danish institutions of higher education. The project thus makes a comparative sociological investigation of elite researcher careers and employs in-depth interviewing to reach an understanding of the interviewed scientists’ path to becoming elite. The aim is to make the interviewed researchers recall critical career events and social relationships that have been pivotal in shaping them and their research.