Main research areas

I strive for achieving physical and mental health benefits through exercise and physical activity for individuals not necessarily taking part in this way of life. As a human physiologist with a background in exercise and sports science, I have a specific focus on how diseases affect metabolism and the interaction between exercise physiology and pathophysiology, now especially in severe mental illness and how to prevent comorbidities, cardiovascular disease, and premature death.

Current research

Projekt Vega

Meta Care

Heart in Mind

Curriculum

Current position
PhD student at the Centre for Applied Research in Mental Health Care (CARMEN) & Center for Neuropsychiatric Schizophrenia Research (CNSR), Mental Health Center Glostrup, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark. Including: monthly journal clubs, biweekly research meetings with external and internal research presentations and discussions.

Own successful grant applications
Simon Fougner Hartmanns Familiefond to the Heart in Mind project (556,065dkk)

Supervision
Co-supervision: 1 medical student (bachelor degree)

Networks
Network for Young Researchers in Psychiatry
Network for Researchers with Interest in Recovery

International collaboration
Center for Addiction and Mental Health (CAMH), Toronto, Canada.
Queensland Centre for Mental Health Research (QCMHR), Brisbane, Australia.
Mental healthcare GGZ Drenthe, Drenthe, Netherlands.

Completed PhD courses (33.1 ECTS)
Responsible Conduct of Research 1 An Introduction 1.5 ECTS
Questionnaires in clinical and public health research 3.0 ECTS
Practical Course in Systematic Review Technique in Clinical Research (SRT) 2.6 ECTS
Basic Statistics for Health Researchers R 7.5 ECTS
Programming and statistical modelling in R 2.4 ECTS
Introduction to validation of patient reported outcome 2.5 ECTS
Psychometric validation of patient reported outcome 2.5 ECTS
Improving health behaviour in mental and chronic illness 2.3 ECTS
Longevity Medicine 2.1 ECTS
Psychometric Methods in Psychoses 2.9 ECTS
Obesity: Causes and Consequences – interplay between behaviour, society, and genes 3.8 ECTS

Education and academic degrees

2019                MSc Human Physiology, the University of Copenhagen

2017                BSc Sports and Exercise, the University of Copenhagen