My general research interests are in the area of Computer-Supported Cooperative Work (CSCW):
Born 1945 in Esbjerg, Denmark.
Nationality: Danish.
2008- Professor of 'Work, Technology, and Organization', Department of Organization, Copenhagen Business School. 2007 Doctor of sociology (dr.scient.soc.), IT University of Copenhagen. 2007-2009 Visiting professor, 'Wirtschaftsinformatik und Neue Medien' [Business Informatics], Universität Siegen. 2002-2009 Associate professor at IT University of Copenhagen. 1998-2001 Associate professor at Technical University of Denmark. 1990-1997 Senior Scientist, Human-Machine Interaction Group, Risø National Laboratory. 1989-1990 Research scientist and project manager, the Informatics Research Center of the Danish Trade Union Federation (LO). 1985-1988 Project manager, Dansk Datamatik Center (DDC), Denmark. 1979-1985 Associate professor of social sciences, Roskilde University, Denmark. 1972-1979 Assistant professor of social sciences, Roskilde University, Denmark. 1975 M.Sc. of sociology, University of Lund, Sweden. 1973-1975 Studies of sociology, economic history, and political science at the University of Lund, Sweden. 1970-1972 Computer programmer at the Danish Social Research Institute. 1965-1969 Computer programmer at IBM Denmark 1965-67 and 1968-69. 1964-1973 Studies of philosophy, history, and sociology at the University of Copenhagen, Denmark.
2003- Member of Editorial Board of Springer’s Computer Supported Cooperative Work book series (edited by Richard Harper, formerly published by Kluwer Academic Publishers 2003–2005). 1993- Editor-in-Chief of Computer Supported Cooperative Work: The Journal of Collaborative Computing, initially published under the title: CSCW: An International Journal of Computer Supported Cooperative Work (published by Springer, formerly published by Kluwer Academic Publishers). 1991-1993 Member of Editorial Board of CSCW: An International Journal of Computer Supported Cooperative Work (published by Kluwer Academic Publishers).
2005-2006 Reviewer for EPRSC, the Engineering and Physical Sciences research Council (United Kingdom). 2003-2004 Reviewer for Austrian Science Fund (FWF), Division for Natural and Technical Sciences. 2000-2002 Member of US National Science Foundation Review Panels (for the ITR program). 1994-1996 European Coordinator of the European Commission's COST-14 action 'CoTech' network. 1991- Member of the Board of the European CSCW Foundation (the sponsor of the ECSCW conferences). 1991-1993 Reviewer for the European Commission's Esprit Basic Research program. 1990-1994 Member of Management Committee of the European Commission's COST-14 action 'CoTech'.
2007-2008 Panels Co-Chair for CSCW 2008: ACM Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work, 2008. 2007 Member of Program Committee of the Third International Conference on e-Social Science, 7-9 October 2007, Ann Arbor, Michigan. (Supported by NSF and ESRC). 2007 Member of Program Committee for ACM GROUP 2007: International Conference on Supporting Group Work, 4-7 November 2007, Sanibel Island, Florida, USA. 2006-2007 Proceedings Chair and member of Program Committee for ECSCW 2007, 24-28 September 2007, Limerick, Ireland. 2006 Doctoral Consortium Co-Chair and member of the Program Committee for COOP 2006, the 7th International Conference on the Design of Cooperative Systems, 9-12 May 2006, Carry-le-Rouet, Provence, France 2005-2006 Member of Program Committee for CHI 2006: ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, 22-27 April 2006, Montréal, Québec, Canada. 2005 Member of Program Committee for the 4th Decennial Conference on Critical Computing: Between Sense and Sensibility 2005, 20-24 August 2005, Aarhus, Denmark. 2004-2005 Conference Co-Chair, ACM GROUP 2005: International Conference on Supporting Group Work, Sanibel Island, Florida, USA, 5-9 November 2005. 2004-2005 Program Co-Chair, ECSCW 2005: The Ninth European Conference on Computer-Supported Cooperative Work, 18-22 September 2005, Paris, France. 2003-2004 Associate Program Chair, CSCW 2004: ACM Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work, Chicago, Illinois, 6-10 November 2004. 2003-2004 Member of Program Committee for COOP 2004: Sixth International Conference on the Design of Cooperative Systems, Hyères Les Palmiers, France, 11-14 May 2004. 2002-2003 Conference Co-Chair and Workshop Chair for ACM GROUP 2003: International Conference on Supporting Group Work, 9-12 November 2003, Sanibel Island, Florida, USA. 2002-2003 Proceedings Chair and member of Program Committee for ECSCW 2003: The Eighth European Conference on Computer-Supported Cooperative Work, 14-18 September 2003, Helsinki, Finland. 2003 Member of Program Committee of C&T 2003: Communities and Technologies, International Conference, Amsterdam, 19-21 September 2003. 2003 Member of Program Committee of ALOIS 2003: Action in Language, Organisations and Information Systems, 12-13 March, 2003, Linköping, Sweden 2002 Associate Program Chair, ACM 2002 Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work , 16-20 November 2002, New Orleans, Louisiana, USA. 2001-2002 Program Chair for COOP 2002: Fifth International Conference on the Design Of Cooperative Systems, Saint Raphaël, France, 4-7 June 2002. 2000-2001 Member of Program Committee for GROUP’01: International Conference on Supporting Group Work, September 2001, Boulder, Colorado, USA. 2000-2001 Proceedings Chair and member of Program Committee for ECSCW 2001: The Seventh European Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work, 16-20 September 2001, Bonn, Germany. 1999-2000 Member of Program Committee for COOP 2000: Fourth International Conference on the Design Of Cooperative Systems, Sophia Antipolis, France, 23-26 May 2000. 1999 Referee for GROUP'99: International Conference on Supporting Group Work, November 14-17, 1999, Phoenix, Arizona, USA. 1997-99 Conference Co-Chair, ECSCW'99: The Sixth European Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work, 12-16 September 1999, Copenhagen, Denmark. 1998-99 Member of Program Committee for WACC '99, International Joint Conference on Work Activities Coordination and Collaboration, 22-25 February 1999, San Francisco, California. 1997-98 Member of Program Committee for COOP'98, Third International Conference on the Design of Cooperative Systems, May 26-29, 1998, Cannes, France. 1996-97 Member of the Scientific and Program Advisory Board for ALLFN'97, the First International Conference on Allocation of Functions, Galway, Ireland, October 1-3, 1997. 1996-97 Program Chair (Social/Behavioral Track), GROUP '97, ACM Conference on Supporting Group Work, Phoenix, Arizona, 16-19 November 1997. 1996-97 Member of Program Committee and Proceedings Chair for ECSCW'97: The Fifth European Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work, 7-11 September 1997, Lancaster, UK. 1996 Member of Technical Program Committee, CHI '97, ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, 22-27 March 1997, Atlanta, Georgia USA. 1995-96 Member of Program Advisory Board, Fifth International Conference on Human Aspects of Advanced Manufacturing and Hybrid Automation, Maui, Hawaii, August 7-10, 1996. 1995 Member of Program Committee for COOP'96, Second International Workshop on the Design of Cooperative Systems, INRIA, Antibes-Juan-les-Pins, France, 12-14 June, 1996. 1994-95 Member of Program Committee and Proceedings Chair, ECSCW'95: The Fourth European Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work, September 11-15, 1995, Stockholm. 1994 Member of Program Committee, International Workshop on the Design of Cooperative Systems, INRIA, Antibes-Juan-les-Pins, France, 25-27 January, 1995. 1993-94 Member of Program Committee, CSCW '94, ACM Conference on Computer-Supported Cooperative Work, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, October 24-26, 1994. 1993 Member of Papers Committee, CHI '94, ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, 24-28 April, 1994 Boston, Mass., USA. 1992-94 Member of International Scientific Advisory Board for Fourth International Conference on Human Aspects of Advanced Manufacturing and Hybrid Automation, Manchester, England, 6-8 July 1994. 1992-93 Member of Program Committee for Workshop on CSCW Design, Schärding, Austria, 1-3 June 1993. 1992-93 Member of Program Committee for Workshop on 'Social Science Research, Technical Systems and Cooperative Work', Paris, 8-11 March 1993. 1992-93 Member of Program Committee and Proceedings Chair for ECSCW'93: The Third European Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work, 13-17 September 1993, Milano. 1992 Member of Papers Committee for INTERCHI'93, Amsterdam, April 1993. 1992 Reviewer for CSCW '92. Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work, Toronto, Canada, November 1-4, 1992. 1990-91 Member of Program Committee and Conference Vice Chair for ECSCW '91: The Second European Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work, 24-27 September 1991, Amsterdam.
2007-2010 Participation in Computer Supported Mobile Adaptive Business Processes (CosmoBiz), funded by Microsoft Development Center Copenhagen and the Danish Research Council for Technology and Production (Grant no. 274-06-0415). 2006 Participation in workshop on "History and Theory of Infrastructure: Lessons for New Scientific Cyberinfrastructures", School of Information, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, 28 September – 2 October 2006. (Sponsored by the NSF program in Human and Social Dynamics, the Computer and Information Science and Engineering Directorate, and the Office of Cyberinfrastructure). 2005 Participation in "UTF International Workshop on Usability in e-Science", Oxford University Computing Laboratory, 8 March 2005. 2004-2007 Participation in the Healthcare IT (HIT) project, funded by the Danish Research Councils. 2002-2005 Project Manager, Location-Based Services, funded by CIT, The Danish National Center for IT Research. 2002-2005 Participation in Crossroads Copenhagen. 2000-2001 Participation in the IDAK project, funded by the Education Fond of Danish Industry. 1999-2003 Participation in the DIWA project, funded by the Danish Research Councils. 1998-2001 Participation in the Distributed Multimedia project under the Center for Multimedia (funded by the Danish Research Councils) 1998-2000 Field study of air traffic control. Funded by the European Commission's TMR program under the COTCOS project. 1998-1999 FASIT: Coordination mechanisms for autonomous working groups in manufacturing. 1998-1999 KIWY: Introduction of workflow technology in municipal administration 1997-1998 Field studies at Det Danske Stålvalseværk and H. C. Ørstedsværket, funded under a collaboration agreement between Risø National Laboratory and the Man-Machine Systems Group at the OECD's Nuclear Reactor Research Project, Halden, Norway. 1995-1997 Participation in the ESCO project ('Evolution des systèmes de connaissance dans les organisations'), funded by the CNRS under the GIS program. Coordinator: CEA, France 1996-1999 Participation in the COTCOS project ('Cooperative Technologies for Complex Work Settings'), funded by the European Commission's TMR program. Coordinator: Aramiihs, France. 1994-1996 Participation in the ENACT project ('European Network For Appropriate Cooperation Technology'), funded by the European Commission's HCM program. Coordinator: Lancaster University, U.K. 1994-1996 Participation in the COST 14 'CoTech' subproject 2, 'Cooperative Information Spaces'. 1995-1996 Project manager of KOMEK ('Datamatisk notation til konstruktion af koordinationsmekanismer', funded by The Danish Natural Science Research Council). 1992-1995 Participation in the COMIC project ('Computer-based Mechanisms of Interaction in Cooperative Work', Esprit Basic Research Action # 6225). Coordinator: Lancaster University, U.K. 1992-1994 Project manager for CODEM project ('Cooperative Design for Manufacture', funded by Danish Technical Research Council). 1990-1992 Participation in the MOHAWC project ('Models of Human Activity in Work Contexts', Esprit Basic Research Action # 3105). Coordinator: Risø National Laboratory. 1991-1993 Coordinator of COST-14 CoTech WG4 ('Developing CSCW Systems: Design Concepts'). 1988-1989 Project manager for development of an information system for administrative decision making in a Danish Trade Union. 1988-1989 Development of an IT strategy for the Danish Trade Union Federation (LO). 1988-1990 Participation in research project on 'Man-machine relations in intelligent systems', Risø National Laboratory. 1987-1988 Development of training program in work analysis for the Data Center of the Danish Savings Banks (SDC). 1987 Field study of portfolio management for the Data Center of the Danish Savings Banks (SDC). 1987-1988 Euromath: development of a communication- and information system for European mathematicians; funded by the European Commission. 1986-1988 Computerized engineering work environments (Teknikerens Integrerede Arbejdsplads, TIA); a requirements study funded by the Danish Technology Council. 1985-1987 Participation in the FAOR project ('Functional Analysis of Office Requirements', Esprit project # 56); in particular responsible for the development of the 'functional analysis' methodology of FAOR. 1983-1985 Computer Integrated Manufacturing (CIM), the technology and its social conditions and implications; research project, Roskilde University. 1979-1985 Studies of the scientific-technical revolution and the transformation of work. 1967-1985 Studies of the theory of the development of socio-economic formations.