Head of the analytical chemistry department named "Assays" at Innovation, Chr. Hansen A/S. The "Assays" department is characterizing microorganisms, processes (fermentations), and products (cheese, yoghurt, wine, sausages, probiotics etc.) by application of advanced GC-MS and LC-MS.I have five years of experience as manager of the analytical chemistry laboratory at Chr. Hansen and a Ph.D. in microbiology with 14 years of relevant experience.I have a Certificate in Entrepreneurial Leadership (CEL from DTU) and was awarded for producing the best business plan.Strong network from the career as a scientist and as manager. In addition to the networks from EU-projects and the International Dairy Federation, I have published 29 papers with many different international scientists.I have a proven record of accomplishment as innovation leader with identification of new technologies that have been implemented at Chr. Hansen. These technologies include antibiotic susceptibility testing, next-generation sequencing, multi-compound analysis by GC-MS and LC-MS, metabolomics and proteomics by mass spectrometry and implementation of big data analysis.Extensive experience in giving scientific presentations aimed at different target groups.