She holds a PhD from The Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts, School of Architecture in Copenhagen, where she also worked as Associate Professor until 2008. She has written articles in a number of magazines and lectured at universities all over the world. Parallel to this, she had her own Lighting Consultancy Company, specialized in Daylighting Design. Today, Merete works as a lighting architect at Grontmij | Carlbro in Copenhagen, where she is part of an interdisciplinary team working with sustainability, daylight and lighting design.