All employees are highly educated and have a relevant professional background, which is placed at the disposal of the users of the Institute and of its co-operators. In the everyday work, order and clearness of the collections are emphasized to the greatest extent possible and at a high level of service to the public.
Employees
Anne Mette Randrup Jørgensen, Ph.D., director: Phone: +45 32 31 50 50, arktisk@arktisk.dk
Anne Mette Randrup Jørgensen is the director of the Arctic Institute. She has worked with photos and films, archives, memory and cultural heritage since the 1990s, both practically and theoretically. She holds a master's degree in social anthropology from Aarhus University and in 2017 received her ph.d. from Cross-Cultural and Regional Studies at the University of Copenhagen for her thesis 'Moving Archives' about Greenlandic archives and memories of industrialization. From 2005 to 2023, Anne Mette Randrup Jørgensen worked at the National Museum as museum inspector, project manager and researcher in Greenland, the Canadian Arctic, Scandinavia and West Africa. Anne Mette Randrup Jørgensen's CV and list of publications.
Lif Lund Jacobsen, Ph.D., head of archives: Phone: +45 32 31 50 55, arkiverne@arktisk.dk
Lif Lund Jacobsen is the head of archives, responsible for the daily management of archives and collections of the Arctic Institute, except for the photo collection. As a historian with a Ph.D. in environmental history from the University of Tasmania in 2010, she has been a postdoc at the Center for Science Studies, Aarhus University, a researcher at the Danish National Archives and an archivist at the Natural History Museum of Denmark. Her studies of archival records centers on the scientific exploration of Greenland, the history of earth science, and science diplomacy in the Arctic. She is also recognized as one of the world's leading experts on Danish seismologist Inge Lehmann.
Sebastian Lindholm Reiding, photo archivist: Phone: +45 32 31 50 51, foto@arktisk.dk
Sebastian Lindholm Reiding has a BA in Greenlandic and Arctic Studies. Aside from managing the photo archive, Sebastian Lindholm Reiding is also in charge of the webpages and IT.
Tobias Wessing, student assistant
Tobias Wessing is doing his BA in Greenlandic and Arctic Studies. He is part of the photo archive.
Marie Schou Agnild, student assistant
Marie Schou Agnild is doing her masters in Arts History. She is part of the photo archive.
Bent Nielsen, Ph.D., volunteer: Phone: +45 32 31 50 53, [email protected]
Bent Nielsen was the managing director of the Danish Arctic Institute from 2006 to 2023 and is now associated with the institute as a volunteer. In 2005, he acquired the Ph.D-degree based on a doctorate thesis on the conditions of the native people in North-Eastern Russia after the collapse of the Soviet Union, and has lead several Danish Tjukotka Expeditions.
Elisabeth Sparst Kofoed, M.A., volunteer
Elisabeth Sparst Kofoed has previously been a map archivist at Danish Arctic Institute and is now associated with the institute as a volunteer.
Janni Andreassen, journalist
Volunteer
Jan Løve, cand. psych.
Volunteer
Gudrun Tølbøll, correspondent
Volunteer
