My research sits at the intersection of philosophy, phenomenology, and the study of digital life. I am concerned with a seemingly simple question: what happens to the body — and to the person — when human existence increasingly becomes enmeshed with virtual and online environments?

This question has guided my work across several interconnected areas. My doctoral project, The Embodiment of Esports (2017–2021), co-funded by the Danish Ministry of Culture, used ethnographic fieldwork and phenomenological analysis to examine high-ranking esports practitioners as an extreme case of embodied digital activity. The project challenged prevailing assumptions about the relationship between physical presence and skilled performance, arguing that virtual engagement is not a departure from the body but a transformation of it.

Since then, my research has broadened toward the social and ethical dimensions of digital life. From 2022, funded by the Carlsberg Foundation's Internationalisation Fellowship, I led Shelter from the Norm, a project exploring the significance of online spaces for autistic people. This work sits at the convergence of phenomenological philosophy and the neurodiversity movement, asking how online environments can serve as spaces of genuine belonging and relief from neurotypical social norms.

I have since led and co-led further funded projects, including Wellbeing and Virtual Worlds (Independent Research Fund Denmark), Esports and Gender (Aarhus University Research Foundation), Esports and Institutionalization (Danish Ministry of Culture), and Hybrid Agency and Moral Responsibility (Independent Research Fund Denmark). A recurring concern across all of these is how philosophical phenomenology can be meaningfully integrated with empirical inquiry, not merely as a theoretical backdrop but as a living methodology responsive to the complexities of contemporary digital existence.

My publications appear in leading international journals, including Autism in Adulthood, Phenomenology and the Cognitive Sciences, Philosophy & Technology, Disability & Society, Theory & Psychology, and Philosophical Explorations. My work has been presented at universities across Europe and has reached broader public audiences through national television and before the Danish Parliament.

As of 2023, I am Assistant Professor at the Department of Public Health, Aarhus University, where I teach philosophy of science, ethics, as well as qualitative methods and research design at both undergraduate and graduate level. I supervise graduate students working on, amongst many other areas, bodily vulnerability, digital technologies, embodiment, disability research and esports/gaming.