She received her B.S. in Physics from the University of Copenhagen, Denmark in 2004 and her M.A. and Ph.D. degrees in Physics from the University of California, Santa Barbara in 2007 and 2009, respectively. She did her PhD in the group of Prof. David Awschalom on experimental studies of single electron spins in semiconductor quantum dots. Before joining Duke, she was a postdoctoral fellow in the group of Prof. Xiang Zhang at the University of California, Berkeley. In 2011 she received the European Physical Society’s Ph.D. Thesis prize from the Quantum Electronics and Optics Division. She has published articles in journals including Science, Nature Physics, and Nature Materials. Her research interests include experimental studies of spin dynamics in solid state systems, light-matter interactions in nanostructures, nanophotonics, metamaterials, and quantum information science.