• 2010: Leader of the project Opening of the Tomb of Tycho Brahe
• 2006: Leader of Renaissance Year 2006
• 1999: Leader of Medieval Year 1999
• 1990: Founded and began ‘Project Salt' (Mariager Salt Centre opened in 1998)
• 1985-87: Viborg Museum
• 1980-82 Master's scholarship, Aarhus University
• 1979 MA in medieval archaeology, Aarhus University
• 1974 Founded the publishing house Hikuin
• 1972-73 Archaeological expedition in the sultanate of Oman with P.V. Glob
• 1969-70 Archaeological expedition to Abu Dhabi
• 1968 Founder of the Department of Medieval Archaeology at Aarhus University
• 1945 Born 14^th August

Important Excavations

• Silkeborg Castle (2004-05) 
• Løvel Bridge and other medieval bridges (1993-96)
• Salt extraction on the island of Læsø (1990-2008)
• Bell foundry  in Odense (1979)
• Viborg Cathedral (1971-)
• Oman (1972-73)
• Asmild Abbey Church (1971-)
• Abu Dhabi (1969-70)

Selected projects

• Opening of the Tomb of Tycho Brahe (2010)
• Reconstruction of Skaaning Paper Mill, Aarhus
• Reconstruction of Tycho Brahe's observatory, Uranienborg, on the island of Hven  
• Renaissance Year 2006
• Medieval Year 1999

Prizes, Awards etc. Received

• 2008 Aarhus University prize for Research Dissemination
• 2008 Granted knighthood of the Order of the Dannebrog
• 1992 Henry Ford prize for initiative
• 1992 Charles Christensen Grant from the Royal Nordic Antique Journal Society
• 1989 The G.E.C. Gads Foundation Presentation
• 1984 The Tessin Prize from the Foundation for Danish Architectural Culture