I have served as the principal investigator on many scientific projects in the Faroe Islands and has been successful in attracting funding to research projects. Her initial work focused on the epidemiology of environmental exposures on human health and disease risk. Subsequently, she has also focused on the rich genealogy of the Faroese population, and how genetics might contribute to disease susceptibility, progression and/or response to treatment, especially with focus on Parkinson’s disease, and in recent years Alzheimer’s disease, amyotrophic lateral sclerosis and essential tremor. Recently, I have embarked on aging research in healthy people through the Faroese Septuagenarian cohort where a 10-year follow-up has been completed and a wealth of data is collected. Futher, in Sep 2021 I initiated a study among nonagenarians assessing their health and medication use. In addition to my own research projects, I am involved in, and have a comprehensive knowledge of, the Faroese child cohorts and other cohorts at the Department of Occupational Medicine and Public Health, and continues to work on the effects of environmental exposure at different time points on different health outcomes, mainly male reproduction. The last 1½ year, I have also been involved in COVID-19 research in the Faroe Islands.

My work takes a holistic approach to gather and integrate Faroese data on human health, epidemiology, environmental exposures and genetics. Thus, my scientific focus areas include neurodegenerative diseases (Parkinson’s disease, Alzheimer’s disease, amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, essential tremor), healthy aging, epidemiology, environmental epidemiology, genetics, gene-environment interactions, pharmacology, COVID-19 and cancer.