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I am Director of Business Development at QunaSys Europe, working on commercializing quantum computing technologies for industrial R&D applications.

I am an engineer and physicist with a PhD in nanophotonics, and more than a decade of experience across research, product management, and international commercial roles in deep-technology markets.

Space, satellites, and antenna engineering

From 2016 to 2026, I worked at TICRA in roles spanning engineering, product development, and commercial leadership, most recently as Director of Sales and Marketing.
I worked on antenna design, simulation, and consulting for satellite missions and industrial customers, developing advanced microwave and reflector antennas for ESA-funded space applications:

Large European Deployable Reflector: RF Modeling and Measurement Correlation, AP-S/URSI (2021) High-Frequency CubeSat Platform Scattering UsingHigher-Order Method of Moments, AP-S/URSI (2019) Multi-Feed-Per-Beam Antenna Concept for High-Performance Passive Microwave Radiometers, ESA Antenna Workshop (2018) Feed Array Breadboard for Future Passive Microwave Radiometer Antennas, EuCAP (2018)Large Deployable Antennas Benchmark for Contoured Beam Mission in C Band, EuCAP (2018)Advances on High-Performance Curved Reflectarrays for Telecommunication Applications, AP-S/URSI (2017)Advanced Techniques for Grating Lobe Reduction for Large Deployable Mesh Reflector Antennas, AP-S/URSI (2017)Full-Wave and Multi-GTD Analysis of the Ice Cloud Imager for MetOp-SG, EuCAP (2017)

Ph.D. project and research topics

I obtained my Ph.D. degree in 2015 from DTU Fotonik at the Technical University of Denmark (DTU).
During the Ph.D, I was a member of the Nanophotonics Theory and Signal Processing group.
Research topics included:

  • Photonic crystal cavity-waveguide structures
  • Quasi-normal modes of leaky and resonant nanophotonic systems
  • Computational techniques for nanophotonics
  • Optical properties of plasmonic nano-dimers

Benchmarking five numerical simulation techniques for computing resonance wavelengths and quality factors in photonic crystal membrane line defect cavities, Opt. Express 26, 11366 (2018) On the Theory of Coupled Modes in Optical Cavity-Waveguide Structures, J. Lightwave Technol. 35, 4247 (2017) Modeling open nanophotonic systems using the Fourier modal method: generalization to 3D Cartesian coordinates, JOSA A 34, 1632 (2017)

Semianalytical quasi-normal mode theory for the local density of states in coupled photonic crystal cavity-waveguide structures, Opt. Lett. 40, 5790-5793 (2015) Impact of slow-light enhancement on optical propagation in active semiconductor photonic-crystal waveguides, Phys. Rev. A 92, 053839 (2015)Calculation, normalization, and perturbation of quasinormal modes in coupled cavity-waveguide systems, Opt. Lett. 39, 6359-6362 (2014)

Roundtrip matrix method for calculating the leaky resonant modes of open nanophotonic structures, J. Opt. Soc. Am. A 31, 2142−2151 (2014) Scaling of the Surface Plasmon Resonance in Gold and Silver Dimers Probed by EELS, J. Phys. Chem. C 118, 5478−5485 (2014) Three-dimensional integral equation approach to light scattering, extinction cross sections, local density of states, and quasi-normal modes, J. Opt. Soc. Am. B 30, 1996-2007 (2013)

Book: Surviving and Succeeding the PhD

I am editor and co-author of the book “The Nordic PhD: Surviving and Succeeding”, an edited book written for Ph.D. students and published in 2018.
The book is part of an international series and follows editions in Aotearoa New Zealand, Australia, the U.K., U.S., and South Africa.
In addition to being an editor, I authored chapter 5 “Writing the PhD Thesis: Planning, Getting Started and Getting Done” of the book.

NEWS AND ACTIVITIES

March 2026: Start as Director of Business Development at QunaSys Europe in Copenhagen.

February 2026: After ten years as Research Engineer, Product Lead, Head of Team, and Director of Sales and Marketing, last day at TICRA. Thanks to TICRA and colleagues for the trust, support, opportunities, and friendships along the way.

December 2025: Participation as TICRA booth responsible in the exhibition at the MAPCON Conference and Exhibition in Kochi.

November 2025: Participation at Space Tech Expo in Bremen.

October 2025: Meeting at the Royal Danish Embassy in Tokyo and TICRA booth responsible in the exhibition at the International Symposium on Antennas and Propagation (ISAP) in Fukuoka.

August 2025: Participation at DALO Industry Days in Ballerup.

June 2025: Host at the first-ever TICRA User Workshop and TICRA booth responsible in the exhibition at the International Microwave Symposium (IMS) in San Francisco.

May 2025: TICRA’s representative at the Danish Space Delegation to Toulouse, together with the Confederation of Danish Industry and the Danish Embassy in Paris.

April 2025: Participation at European Conference on Antennas and Propagation (EuCAP) in Stockholm.

March 2025: Participation as TICRA booth responsible in the exhibition at the SATELLITE Conference and Exhibition in Washington D.C.

November 2024: Participation at Space Tech Expo Europe in Bremen.

October 2024: Participation as TICRA booth responsible in the exhibition at the IEEE International Symposium on Phased Array Systems & Technology in Boston.

August 2024: Start as TICRA’s Director of Sales and Marketing.

July 2024: Participation as TICRA booth responsible in the exhibition at the AP-S/URSI Conference and Exhibition in Florence.

March 2024: Participation as TICRA booth responsible in the exhibition at the SATELLITE Conference and Exhibition in Washington D.C.

November 2023: Participation in the course Sales-Generating B2B Marketing at Teknologisk Institut.

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