I am a professor of biophysics and affiliated with the Physics Department of the University of Southern Denmark. My fields of specialization are statistical mechanics and thermodynamics, computer simulation techniques, phase transitions and critical phenomena, biomembrane physics and chemistry, surface and interface physics, and nano-scale materials science.

My interests in physics are rather broad and I have over the years worked on a range of problems using a variety of methods, including magnetic phase transitions and critical phenomena, martensitic and structural phase transitions, phase transitions in fluids, nuclear magnetic ordering, high-temperature series expansions, Monte Carlo methods, liquid crystals, overlayers on solid surfaces, one-dimensional spin systems, domain-growth kinetics, grain growth and grain boundaries, interfaces and melting, solidification, fractals and pattern formation, transport phenomena, high-temperature superconductivity, lipid monolayers and bilayers, biological membranes, cholesterol and proteins in membranes, liposomes, drug delivery, and evolution.

I am currently director of a national Danish center of excellence, MEMPHYS - Center for Biomembrane Physics, which is supported by the Danish National Research Foundation. The research within the Center focuses on developing molecular descriptions of the physical and physico-chemical properties of membrane systems and investigating how these properties control membrane function. The area of research covers lipid monolayers, bilayers, and biological membranes as well as interactions of these systems with enzymes, proteins, peptides, DNA, drugs, alcohols, sterols, as well as other compounds that are active at membranes.

I am strongly involved in the training of graduate students and am currently director of the national Graduate School of Molecular Biophysics. Furthermore, I have a keen interest in transfer of research into modern technology, and I am a co-founder of LiPlasome Pharma A/S which is an innovation company that develops liposome-based drug-delivery systems for cancer therapy.

Curriculum vitae and publication list.(pdf-file)