I was born in 1973 in Denmark, and my education took place at the University of Copenhagen. I joined the research group of Jens Martin Knudsen/Morten Bo Madsen in October 1997 at the end of the Pathfinder mission. The topic of my Ph.D. work was the design and experimental tests of magnets for the Mars Exploration Rovers, MER, (initially designed for the Athena Payload & the 2001 Mars Lander). Since 2001, my work has included the delivery of MER flight magnets, dust accumulation experiments and backscatteing Mössbauer spectroscopy of Mars-like materials.