About me

I am an Associate Professor of Strategy and Entrepreneurship at the Department of Management, Aarhus University, School of Business and Social Sciences (BSS).

I study social market frictions: work-relevant dynamics that originate in out-of-work circumstances (a divorce, a criminal record, unexpected unemployment) but carry consequences within it, reshaping careers and the firms people move through. I trace these dynamics across three connected projects: JobReBound, on how employer background checks reshape hiring after a criminal record; Startup Myopia, on how the specific conditions of a person’s time at a startup shape the career penalty they carry afterward; and Instantaneous Divorce, on how the speed of a divorce’s resolution shapes what happens to a career next. Since joining AU, I have brought in more than DKK 10.5 million in additional funding.

Two threads shape the majority of my working hours right now. One is on activation points: how an employer’s discretionary record check changes what happens to someone’s job prospects afterward. The other is Designing Endogeneity, an AIAS collaborative theme group (2026–28) I convene with researchers in management, political science, public health, clinical epidemiology, and philosophy of science. Its premise: the discretionary decisions that identification strategies filter out are often precisely what bring the social outcomes worth studying into being. We are building shared vocabulary and research designs that keep those decisions analytically visible, closing the gap between what current methods can identify and what social scientists most need to explain.

Outside work, tennis takes up a fair amount of my life: I train, play, watch, and umpire.

You can find my CV here.