Our mentors

Abhinav Verma is a doctoral student with 4 years of experience in Quantum Physics at DTU Physics, specializing in non-Gaussian multimode entangled quantum states. He holds a Master’s degree in Physics and Nanotechnology from DTU and a Bachelor’s degree in Electronics and Telecommunications Engineering from the University of Mumbai. His interests lie in Quantum Information Processing and fundamental properties of light.

Motivation

As a new master’s student who came to Denmark from India, life was hard and I constantly wished someone could show me the ways and the tricks of trade so that I could settle in easily. There is a lot of very subtle details people miss out on or learn much later than they should (which could potentially make their life easier). I hope to help someone else who probably feels the same way and could use some help from someone who has been in the situation and got out alive. Besides, it would be a great opportunity to revisit the tight turns through someone else and experience some second hand excitement.

Adam has 10+ years of experience of applying design and user experience in various companies (DHI, GN ReSound, Oticon). Some key points within this area that Adam has worked with include:

• engagement of stakeholders
• identification of problems and business goals
• designing solutions
• creating and testing concepts with users
• consulting

He has a vast interest in the topics that relate to:

• design thinking
• prototyping
• user research
• interaction design
• design systems
• change management

Adam is a generalist type and has done various things in different contexts. In his current job, he has helped to establish an internal User Experience team for DHI. He is now leading a team of skilled designers specializing in interaction design, prototyping, UI design, and user research.

Motivation

Adam wants to develop his personal leadership and motivational skills. Adam would also love to get a bigger network among students and young professionals. Mentoring for Adam means sharing knowledge and experience but at the same time learning from the mentees. During the early years of his career, he was lucky to have good people around him that helped him. Adam would like to pay it back and help others.

I’ve worked with the Maritime industry for about 5 years, 3 years with a shipyard in India and 2.5 years at Vessel Performance Solutions, Denmark. I currently work as a Vessel Performance Analyst – helping shipping companies improve their performance and also work on improving performance monitoring.

Motivation

I’d like to keep in touch with students from the field, as well help them with the questions I had when I was a student.

Technical University of Denmark (DTU) – M.Sc., Engineering Management

Illinois Institute of Technology – B.Sc., Mechanical Engineering

Aida has 7+ years of experience as a mechanical engineer. After finishing her bachelor’s degree in the US, Aida went into the industry, starting out her career at Maersk Oil. With Maersk Oil, she worked in a number of different positions in Kazakhstan, Qatar and then Denmark. During her last period of time in the company, Aida was supporting daily operations in the maintenance department of an oil fields, managed 8 vendors (up to 6 million DKK budget contracts) to plan, execute and close out maintenance jobs on storage vessels, pipelines, pumps and pressure safety valves, coordinating engagement with office and field engineers. She continued her education with a master’s degree from DTU, bridging her technical knowledge with a more holistic management focusing, almost about to finish up her degree, while simultaneously working as a mechanical engineer at Maersk Drilling.

MOTIVATION

Aida would like to become a mentor to help students realize that the professional world is not so scary and can be tamed. In a mentee, she would prefer someone who is interested in working in operations, risks and management, and who is striving to go abroad for work and for adventure.

Alessandro has 5+ years of experience in Novo Nordisk where he has been working as technical leader of highly regulated laboratories for medical devices. Prior to joining Novo Nordisk, Alessandro has completed a Ph.D. through an European early career researcher development program. Alessandro has been stationed abroad and currently works with different nationalities on a daily basis.

Motivation

Mentoring allows me to help students looking for jobs by sharing my stories. Accompanying a student is also an opportunity to brush up on my knowledge and go further with certain concepts. I prefer helping a mentee with the ambition of starting a career in the pharmaceutical industry.

Alexander Rubin is a Product Portfolio Manager at Novozymes with 9 years of experience in the biotechnology industry. He has expertise in cross-functional operations, supply chain, and sales. Alexander holds a Master of Engineering in Chemical and Biochemical Engineering from the Technical University of Denmark and a business degree add-on.

Motivation

I would love to help a young person find their feet in the industry, as well as guide them on what options can exist in “the real world”. To me, I find it highly motivating to generate and sustain the motivational sparkle in the young folks, letting them feel comfortable with the future in mind.

I prefer generalist students, that know they will move into a more broad role, and help them understand connection from university to industry.

I am a curious engineer by heart, which drives me to continuous learning by experimenting and constantly searching for new tech, methods and new ways of solving problems. I have 8+ years of experience within sourcing, supply chain & logistics, with a heavy focus on data analytics. I currently lead a small team of talented sourcing analysts working to optimize the way we source sustainably and smart!

Motivation

I would like to share my knowledge & experience primarily to help younger students fast track their development which at the same time would develop my own skills by reflecting. I would also like to get a bigger network among young, talented engineering students. I think I could particularly help mentees who are perhaps not sure which direction to go in, as I have my self tried a few different roles and fields in the search for my passion.

Experienced architect and developer, currently working as a Senior Cloud Architect at Microsoft.

I am part of the Global Customer Success organization, reporting to our headquarters in Redmond, Washington.

At present, I dedicate all my time to assisting customers worldwide in coding semantic kernels based on OpenAI.

I collaborate with strategic customers such as Tesla, Rolex, Louis Vuitton, the Oscars Academy Awards, Emirates Airlines, governments globally, Aramco Oil and Gas, Bahrain Petroleum Company, Petroleum Development of Oman, and the financial services industry, among many others.

Motivation

My motivation is to inspire the next generation of engineers and IT architects to pursue their dreams, make a lasting impact in their respective fields, and contribute positively to society by harnessing the power of AI for good.

Senior engineer with 9 years of experience at Microsoft. Worked on transforming Microsoft CRM to a SaaS. Later moved to Silicon Valley and worked on Microsoft’s cloud platform Azure, where I led the development of a web application firewall engine. Just recently accepted to join Google as a Staff Engineer, where I will be working on gRPC.

Areas of interest: Backend server software, infrastructure, and deployment systems. Network protocols and security.

Motivation

Want to sharpen my skills as a mentor. I also really enjoy sharing my passion about technology, and hope it inspire. And I’d love to learn about what the hottest topics to study at university are these days.

I have 25+ years of experience in satellite communication in Denmark and abroad. Throughout my career within R&D, the last 15+ years in various management positions including project and line management. I am focusing on project management and product strategy

Motivation

I find it a great personal value to be able to help others by sharing some of the learnings I have made throughout my career and increase my own skills within leadership. I also appreciate the chance to help talented engineers develop their skills. I prefer helping mentees with ambitions of project management and leadership.

I have 7+ years of experience within electronics development and testing, specialized in IoT. I can support with knowledge of development tools and processes, business models, IoT architecture, IoT infrastructure, regulatory testing, durability and lifetime testing and wireless communication.
My main focus is supporting a business model with the right technology and vice versa. Finding the best business model to support a technology or finding the best technology to support a business model is key.

Motivation

I want to expand my network within students that have an interest in the same field of work as me. This also seems like a very good opportunity to find candidates for my development team. And i would also like to share my knowledge with like-minded students with ambitions of building something meaningful.

I have 8 years of experience in a combination of chemical, pharmaceutical and medical devices industry in combination of startups, smaller and larger companies in Denmark. I have focus on using analytical and organic chemistry to solve and develop solutions/products within the life sciences industries mainly in early and late stage development. I also have a diploma in business administration, that I use to understand the company I work at.
So my work focus is on applying chemistry to create solutions in life sciences.

Motivation

I want to help students to have a good start in their career, by sparing with them on what they want to do and how they keep the world open.
I am dyslexic, which gave me problems during my studies and had hard landing my first job. But very happy where I am. Because I had this type of mentoring.

And I hope my experience in sparring can do the same.

In short I have the energy now to give back.

I have 3+ years of experience working in different areas of sustainability from sustainable transport to LCA and carbon footprinting. I started my own business and offered sustainability consulting at hourly rates, and now work for an international, mid-sized consultancy focusing on corporate climate action. I have worked in Copenhagen and London.

I have a Masters in Environmental Engineering from DTU.

Motivation

I want to help students to think outside the box when it comes to career choices. I want to empower engineering and tech students to start their own business – particularly female stem students who may not have otherwise considered this as an option, but also happy to help anyone else.
I am also happy to help female students navigate the job market and balancing that with family life as a mum – something I’ve done myself and think is important.

I have 20 years of experience as a statistician in the pharmaceutical industry, taken up various positions as principal scientist, senior project manager and team coordinator. I have experienced both from production and development. I started my career within civil engineering (bygningsingeniør), so I have taken an unusual path.

Motivation

I have a lot of experiences trying different industries, roles and companies, so I believe that I have a lot to give.

I have 5 years of research/academic experience from DTU. I am currently working as QC Scientist at AGC Biologics.
I have a diverse background and I work in an interdisciplinary project. My focus is on environmental engineering, environmental microbiology, and material science. My strong asset is working in an interdisciplinary scientific environment and always acquiring and combining new skills in terms of research and communication among teams.

Motivation

I want to develop my communication skills and I want to inspire younger people. I want to help students, by discussing and sharing knowledge in the difficult journey of searching for a Ph.D. or a research job. I prefer helping a mentee with ambitions of going into academia or a research job.

Birgitte Bjørn Budde is an experienced Alliance Director at Novo Nordisk, with a background in Pharma & Life Sciences, Business Development, and Legal Contracts. She has 9 years of experience at Novozymes as a Senior Manager, driving collaboration and license agreements. With a Ph.D. in Microbiology, she also served as an Associate Professor at the University of Copenhagen.

Motivation

I want to help a student by sharing my story on how to develop your role during your career. I have changed and developed by working at different places, ie. both at the university doing research and teaching and in industry doing contracts and alliances. I believe that it is important to follow your interests at work and they may change during life, so you may need to adapt your skills to obtain the job you want.

Bo is currently self-employed. He has a broad experience from working in multiple industries, both as an individual contributor and as a leader. His skill’s range across leadership, management, mentoring, coaching, consulting, requirements specification, business process design, enterprise-, solution-, and application architecture.

Bo has walked on a path of more than 30 years of technology starting from developing hardware and embedded software for micro- and minicomputers, specifying and creating development software for developers in the aerospace industry, creating solutions for commercial aircraft maintenance, structuring and authoring user documentation, writing proposals for large public and private sector clients, prepared and executed Y2K assessments, specified and developed an order management solution, specifying payment processing systems, architecting a next-generation pension platform, building an enterprise architecture capability in the telco space, developed technical course material and giving training, made recommendations on system selection, developed enterprise architecture, high level solution designs and project support, built a solution architecture capability from scratch, built capability in key integration platforms and technologies to be used enterprise-wide, and now working as freelancer.

Motivation

Bo finds great satisfaction in helping others and sees the mentor role being part of his development as a leader. He will attempt to help a potential mentee shape their personal profile and brand, advise on actions around their personality traits, spar on difficult issues, and use a combination of coaching and mentoring techniques.

Bo expects drive, openness and honesty from his mentee – if they want him as a mentor, they should reach out, they should bring their issues or problems and share them openly in a trusting and confidential atmosphere that they can build and maintain together. When meeting, he wants to see or hear that action has been taken as agreed in our preceding meetings.

A mentee’s success is his reward.

I spent my 30+ year career in Global Tech companies like Nokia, Heidelberger Druck, Siemens, Hasselblad, Jabra, and Brüel & Kjaer. Most of the time (25 years) with P&L responsibility in international and global leadership roles in After Sales. I hold both an engineering degree and commercial education. Now I quit my full-time job to focus on investment and advisory for startups. I am a member of Open Entrepreneurship and I finalized the DTU startup board education.

I have vast experience in scaling products and service-related businesses, stakeholder management, leadership, and market analysis. I more than once headed up the implementation of a globally aligned go-to-market strategy in a formerly regionally focused business set-up. I also headed the development and global implementation of new service contract concepts on several occasions.

I would like to support a student who seeks career advice, or who have a dream of becoming an entrepreneur.

Experienced people manager thriving in bringing strategic communication to live through the passionate leadership of talented creative and commercial teams. Charlotte brings 20+ years of experience in global B2B biotech marketing & communications based on an engineering and commercial background. She is now starting a new career as a psychotherapist and board member in SME technology companies. Moreover Charlotte has lived abroad for 15+ years.

Motivation

Charlotte is interested in sharing her experiences from a long professional career, that also balanced a rich family life and three children. She also wants to be an example of how an engineering background can lead to a career in many different industries and functions. Hoping to inspire and support coming engineers with their professional and personal future journey.

Christian Lillelund is an experienced Hardware Design, Applications, and Product Manager with expertise in consumer audio products. With a background in M.Sc.EE and 6 years of experience at ams OSRAM as a Principal Specialist, he specializes in optical sensors for the consumer market.

Motivation

I want to share my experience from 20+ years of professional work. I think this could be helpful for someone who is interested in working in an international environment and with close customer interaction.

With 20+ years of leadership experience from Novo Nordisk A/S and the Danish Armed Forces I am truly motivated by developing others professionally and personally. My experience within the pharmaceutical business comprise manufacturing, quality, specifications, labelling and regulatory for both new product entry and lifecycle management activities.

Motivation

I am dedicated to developing others, so making a valuable impact on fellow human beings is my passion. I seek primarily talents who wish to pursue leadership paths.

Today I manage two jobs. My main occupation is with the Consumer Ombudsman, where I have the responsibility of the technical aspects of the field of sustainability. Secondarily, I work as a sustainability expert at the Technical University of Denmark.
Earlier, I have been a Member of the Danish Parliament, spokesperson for nature, climate, environment etc. and before that I was working ten years as senior advisor in the largest Danish NGO with the responsibility of a broad palette of environmental topics. Before that I have been working in the Danish EPA and in private environmental consulting.

Motivation

I have always found joy in communicating what I do and in seeing colleagues flourish. Being a mentor also gives me the opportunity to practice some of the skills I learned during a two year course in Narrative Leadership at Dispuk, that I finished in 2021.
As the main part of my career has been in Denmark, working in Danish with all kinds of Danish stakeholders, I would prefer a mentee, who is looking towards moving e.g. from a narrow technical focus to a broader focus in sustainability, or maybe one considering a shift in sector between public, private, research, NGO, politics etc. or where to start the career.

I have almost 5 years experience in American tech companies; 3 years during my studies at IBM and almost 2 years working full time for Microsoft.

From these experiences I ranged from technical and commercial roles. During my time at IBM I had the responsibility to automate and optimize internal processes such as managing the internal build servers. I also got the opportunity to implement a cryptographic feature to one of the company’s crypto cards called IBM 4765.

Since 2021 I’ve been working as a Technical Specialist on Microsoft BI solutions. This is a more commercial role, where I help drive sales of Microsoft Power BI through advisory, PoC, and “Hackathons”.

Coming from a technical background I’ve found great pleasure in developing commercial- and communication skills too.

Motivation

I’ve had multiple mentorhips at Microsoft and IBM, and would like to give back by sharing my experiences.

I prefer helping mentees who already have a solid technical background but looking to develop a commercial mindset too. I believe this is what I can help with; realizing the impact of understanding the business side of an organization too.

I have 25+ years of experience, primarily within IT – I have held positions within leadership, quality assurance and project management. Today, I work primarily with projects handling digitalization.

Motivation

I have reached a time in my career where I want to give back. I have been blessed having great mentors myself and I want to support others. Besides being an engineer, I also have a master coach and am very focused on personal development.

I have 7+ years of experience within the wind energy industry, working for Vestas in DK. I started as a junior engineer performing calculations on wind conditions and energy production of various wind farms in Northern Europe. The last 3-4 years, I am working closely with people doing that, having full responsibility on the technical solution we offer, and developing softer skills on project management, stakeholder management etc.

Motivation

I would like to develop my personal leadership and motivational skills by inspiring a student and being inspired by them. At the same time, I would like to help a student by sharing my story and encourage them to enter the industry and work on finding their path. Getting a network among young, talented engineering students might also be useful for future opportunities on future collaboration.

Christoph is a recent graduate and has been studying in 4 different European countries; Italy, Denmark, Portugal and Germany. He has 2+ years of working experience mainly in two fields. First of all, in project management for construction projects, and secondly, in the digitalization of production processes. Christoph’s main focus lies on the digitalization of industrial production, including IIoT, Industrie 4.0, and Data Science.

Motivation

Since it is not long ago that he finished his studies and had the opportunity to make his first mistakes, Christoph would like to help a student to have a smooth start in his/her working life. He hopes he can help with his experience studying in different countries and having a broad working background.
Furthermore, he would like to broaden his network with curious people.

Claus A. Andersen is a Senior Director of Data Science in Data Orchestration as Data Lead at Novo Nordisk, with a strong background in Pharma R&D+C, including AI/ML and machine learning to improve patient outcomes. He has expertise in bridging AI/ML with business end-points and strategic decision-making.

Motivation

Helping a young ambitious person navigate their career is a great pleasure, where putting my experience and network at their disposal can impact their life path in a positive way. There are so many options and possibilities at the early career stages that it is truly difficult to navigate with a limited experience. I prefer helping someone who wants to invest in and explore which future career paths would rime with them.

I have been working in Danske Bank for more than 10 years in different roles and departments, including infrastructure, private banking and large corporates & institutions front office area where we have the best and most talented people. We constantly have to find best and efficient solutions in order to be the leaders in the market. Thinking out of the box, being flexible and meeting all technical as well as regulatory and compliance requirements is everyday’s challenge I have to be a part of.

Motivation

I want to share my experience working in a big company with all its caviets, challenges, sad and not so sad moments.
At the same time, I am searching for different views and attitudes, especially from the younger generation.
I would love to inspire or, if that is not needed, just to listen to the challenges the person finds in this world and maybe direct one to a bit different path.
All in all, I believe that both of us can greatly benefit from each other by sharing different and at the same time maybe event the same experience, but from a different angle.

For the past 17+ years, Daniel has worked in the software industry — most of it at Apple, but also various other smaller and larger projects. He has gained deep technical insight, but also increasingly come to understand that success requires a deep understanding of people and processes. Daniel’s focus is mainly on software architecture: How to build large projects such that people enjoy working on it. He has written a lot of technical articles and a book, and also given talks.

Motivation

Daniel is always happy to help and share his own learnings. He has been fortunate to have people guide him, and he hopes to be able to forward this. He would be happy to help with your ambitions be it for going into leadership, becoming a specialist, or venturing the path of being a generalist.

I have been working for more than a decade within cybersecurity. After a couple of years spent with reversing malware at an anti-virus company, now my focus is on developing and maintaining tools and systems used during Incident Response assignments at a mid-size company located in Copenhagen. My MSc thesis at DTU was titled “Automatic Attack Identification in IDS systems” – I implemented two IDS-like systems – one based on machine learning and another one based on attack trees, then compared their performance.

Motivation

The fast pace cybersecurity is evolving never ceases to amaze me. People often find it difficult to get into this field professionally – also, on a personal level I did realise the extent of the invaluable advice I had received earlier during my career. Now it is my turn to give that back to the community, while perhaps improving my motivational skills!

Founder and CEO of Raavare.com – a digital marketplace platform connecting consumers and restaurants directly to the farms and food brands we curate and host.

I also serve as a board member at Connecting Grounds – Helping them bring to market CG’s novel industrial upcycled ingredients and establishing operational capabilities to ensure a profitable and scalable business model. In addition, I serve as an advisor to management on operating strategy, go-to-market strategy, and finance.

I have a background as a former strategy and management consultant from the Nordic top-tier management consultancy Implement Consulting Group and later in the internal consulting team for GN Hearing. My approach is activistic and built on solid functional knowledge including but not limited to corporate strategy, manufacturing optimization, applied mathematics, product development, supply chain management, process improvement, and operations strategy.

Industry experience: management consulting, consumer packaged goods (CPG), FMCG, industrial goods, logistics, pharmaceuticals, MedTech, eCommerce, and heavy equipment manufacturing.

Motivation

My motivation to become a mentor to a STEM student stems from a desire to deploy my leadership and motivational skills in an effort of helping students navigate their journey. I believe that sharing my story, successes, and failures can inspire and guide aspiring engineers. Additionally, I look forward to expanding my network among talented students and contributing to their growth – both for the benefit of the student, myself, and my network.

I am a master’s graduate of Sustainable Energy with a specialisation in Energy Savings. I have 1 year of professional experience in building certifications and operations.
I decided to change my career path and use my past experience in operations to pursue my dream of working within Operations and Process Improvement.

Motivation

I believe I can be a great help to a student that might be unsure with their studies and whether they want to continue in that direction, as I went through the same thoughts and path myself.
I can also offer assistance with interview preparation and with updating their CV/Linkedin profile.

I went through a lot of uncertainty and I learned how to present myself, my skills and how to be more certain about my professional profile, so I would love to help out someone that might be struggling with the same issue.

I am an experienced leader and a mechanical engineer – I love to establish and maintain high-performance teams, and have experience from Vestas, LEO Pharma, and Novo Nordisk.

I gain energy from working with:

• Different cultures – the energy and innovation that different cultures create is often giving solutions that are very efficient. I have worked closely with colleagues from several European countries, from USA, from Japan, from China and right now I am working in Vietnam.
• Quality – all about doing the right things in the right way. I have worked with quality on in production, in customer/contractor/vendor relations, in administration and in IT settings. I am a Lean Manager and my mind thinks in processes.
• Manufacturing – In my gap year before my studies, I was working in a production site with semi-automated production. I liked it a lot and I was * inspired to start studying mechanical engineering. I have after my master worked in different productions.
• Medical Device – Denmark has several well-known companies producing pharmaceutical products and medical devices. I have been fortunate to work in several of these companies in different job positions.
• R&D – Research and Development environments tend to be very innovative but also competitive. I like both and I have experience from different departments within R&D.
  Health care – I have worked in hospitals and in pharmaceutical companies, and I like to be part of improving the health of the people living on this earth

Motivation

I would love to utilize my broad experience and coaching skills by empowering young engineering women to help them fly and make a change for the benefit of all of us.

I prefer to mentor a woman or a man that might need to open of his view of what the world can offer 🙂

I am a cybersecurity professional having informal leadership responsibilities. I have worked in the industry from startups to large global enterprises for 5+ years with a range of different focus areas from frontend and accessibility to backend and DevOps principles. I have been trying my hand at a range of different things and failed more times than succeeded but always with a learning mindset. My professional interests include cybersecurity, engineering principles, and personal growth. I have also taken a break during my career where I went traveling and have not taken a particularly standard path throughout my career, experiencing burnout, but also been lucky to grow and reconcile work and life.

Motivation

There’s many advantages for me to be a mentor, getting to know young people and sense what students are focused on, improving my communication and listening skills, improving my network and potentially get contacts for future recruiting but at the end of the day, it’s giving back. My motivation is to give back to the world, helping students navigate the transition from the safe bubble of studying to the wild jungle of the real world life. In short, I want to be the kind of help I felt I could have used when I was a student.
I’m looking for an open-minded mentee. That’s it. Whatever else is needed from me is up to me to adapt and try and provide. Open-mindedness is a requirement for succeeding in a mentor-mentee partnership everything else, interests, or doubts, or curiosities that match the things I’ve been through is a bonus.

I am a specialist having 3 years experience in the renewables energy sector and another 2.5 years experience in financial markets.
My career has focused on mathematical modelling for the two sectors, including developing optimization algorithms, uncertainty modelling and statistics. I am also a relatively strong coder.
Recently, I have started taking on project management roles: I am leading Ørsted’s R&D line in Advanced Modelling as well as taking a leading role in a development project.
I am considering to move towards a manager role position as next career step, as I am quite interested in other’s people development and how I can best support them in their journey.

Motivation

I have had myself a mentor in the last three years, and that is something I feel very thankful about. So in some sense, I would like to give a mentee the same positive experience that I had.
Mentoring for me is about you as mentee: where are you now, what are your aspirations, what are your current challenges. You are on the driver seat, meaning that I am going to try as much as I can to ask you a lot of questions rather than providing you with specific answers. I imagine that I will share insights from my experience based on what are interested in.

Erik has 16+ years of experience in innovation, strategy and business development, anchored on process technology, in the energy sector. During his career, he has acted as a bridge-builder between technical and commercial functions, has led multiple technical development programs for new technology within the energy sector (primarily oil and gas), spanning across several continents. He also has experience from a large variety of E&P business aspects, ranging from operations and optimization, digitalization, process safety, strategic R&D, to development of international large-scale multi-billion dollar projects with an international perspective. Erik has been with a number of large companies, including Statoil, Maersk, DTU, and currently in Halder Topsøe.

MOTIVATION

Erik’s aspiration is to help students make the right choices early in their careers. Of particular interest is the importance of choosing the first job, develop balance between personal ambitions and private life, as well as understanding the importance of all the non-core aspects of working life, e.g. networking. His aim with this program is to help students and young professionals to understand and navigate the corporate world outside the university, and to support them in defining and achieving their work-life ambitions. Erik himself finds it inspiring and rewarding to work with young people, and that his experiences can serve as an inspiration to many others.

Based on some 25 years of corporate experience, 4 years within NGO / CSO and recent 5 years of start- and scale-up consultancy engagements, I am keen to support sustainable initiatives with potential for global scale and impact, preferably within regenerative agriculture, hence my recent engagement with eAgronom. A mentor / mentee engagement within this field would benefit multiple parts and more persons.

Motivation

As a mentor I would like to support and groom a mentee to prosper further and faster than otherwise.
I expect a mentee to be clear about objectives, allocate sufficient resources (predominantly time) and stick to agreements.
I have in the past been mentor to the Tony Elumelu Foundation work within AfriCapitalism.

Henley Business School – M.Sc. HD

Technical University of Denmark (DTU) – M.Sc.

Erik has 15+ years of experience in the IT industry, working for large companies such as AT&T, HP, Microsoft, and EG A/S. In these companies, he has held many different roles. From sales to product manager, and the last 10 years as Executive Vice President in Microsoft (Denmark) and EG A/S (global) as COO and CCO. Erik is the chairman of the board in Young Enterprise and has been Vice Chairman of the board in IT-Branchen, the Danish association for the IT industry. EG A/S was owned by AXCEL, private equity, and Erik was part of the selling process where they split the company into two and sold them separately, he himself one of the shareholders of EG A/S. After the sales of EG A/S, Erik changed industries in a C25 company, ISS Facility Services. Now he works at Venzo, a 200 person IT Consulting company, primarily management consulting and Microsoft services.

MOTIVATION

Erik wants to become a mentor because he enjoys growing and developing people. He already has many years of experience as a mentor at Microsoft.

Erik has 40+ years of experience within the Maersk Group, in many different areas in a number of different roles. Among some of them are international commercial management and business development within offshore & gas drilling, negotiating and administrating construction contracts for tankers, bulk carriers, offshore supply vessels and drilling rigs, commercial activities for different areas, investments and projects and many more. During his career, Erik has held many management and leadership positions and is used to a career working in an international environment in different parts of the world. Erik’s role has always been in the commercial and business side, but with a very close co-ordination with other specialists including technical experts of every discipline. Erik has thus been the lead in projects starting from idea conception, business case and finally delivery and start-up of large modern offshore drilling units. At the end of 2019 Erik has retired from Maersk and he is now engaging in various projects and a consultancy basis.

MOTIVATION

Erik would like to pass on some of his learnings and experiences through professional life. Help someone to steer around some of the pitfalls, and maintain focus on what is important. And on that note help to find out what IS important.

Esben helps the largest companies and organizations globally in solving the challenges on their CXO agenda, examples being:
How to transform an organization to meet sudden changes, or
How to incorporate new ways of working to increase efficiency, or
How to successfully become a market leading company, or
How to set the right strategic direction?

He used to work at McKinsey & Company, which is the largest and most prestigious management consultancy in the world, and has been doing so for +3 years at the moment. Esben studied at DTU, obtaining a bachelor’s degree in mechanical engineering and a master’s degree in Industrial Engineering and Management. He has also obtained a degree from MIT, one of the highest-ranked universities in the world.

Motivation

Esben wants to support students in identifying their passion and chasing that passion tirelessly, regardless of what it is. He is looking for inspiration from great talents with bold ambitions, who also dare to share ways for him to seek ways to continuously improve and hone both his professional and personal skills.

Esben Vendelbo Foged is a Team Manager for Refrigeration and Heat Pump Technology at the Danish Technological Institute. With 12 years of experience, he is involved in consultancy, research, and product development in the field of sustainable energy, heat pumps, and smart energy solutions.

Motivation

It is a challenging task, to form the foundation for your future professional career without a solid insight into the world on the other side of the fence. Should I become a leader or a specialist? Tough decision! My hopes are that my experience may benefit students in making the right decisions.
I hope to be matched with a student within my field of expertise – Thermal energy, solar energy, refrigeration, heat pumps.

Double degree graduate engineer with a combined education in sustainable energy and electrical energy systems. On top of a background in electrical engineering specialized in power system operation, I have deepened my knowledge of the development and implementation of data-driven statistical learning algorithms.

In the past 5 years, I have accumulated a weird mix of experience in different fields ranging across data science, mathematics, sustainable energy, container shipping, software engineering, and economics. I’m a geek at heart (and in mind) but with a strong flavor for bridging the gap between technology and business.

Motivation

The main reason to be a mentor is that I wish I had one while approaching the end of my studies a few years ago; it’s also a good way to expand my network and work on my management skills. I’m always happy if I can help anybody with strong motivation and drive, no matter their interests and the stage of their career.

Fabio Zecchini has 8+ years of professional experience, primarily at the United Nations Office for Project Services (UNOPS) where he currently serves as a Corporate Performance Management Senior Analyst. Prior roles at UNOPS include Corporate Performance Management Associate and Finance Assistant. His expertise lies in program evaluation, senior stakeholder management, and sustainability reporting. Fabio also had brief stints at CopenCollective and 6 Hats, focusing on project management and business analysis.

Motivation

My primary objective is to provide advice to students interested in pursuing an international career within the United Nations. Additionally, I aspire to offer guidance to more uncertain students who are seeking clarity on their career paths. At the same time, I view this experience as a chance for my personal growth, allowing me to learn more about myself, such as challenging my communication and leadership skills.

Fan has 10+ years of experience working in research and in the industry with IT security, machine learning and enterprise software solutions. His specialties include enterprise software development, programming language design and implementation, machine learning, NLP, IT security and many more. During his Ph.D. studies, he designed and implemented a programming language for developing distributed and mobile systems that require high-security standards. After doing his research, Fan moved into the industry, working at Deltek, where he technically drove and developed enterprise software. He has now moved into the world of startups, where he is working on applying AI into linguistic domains. Fan describes himself as a lifelong learner and enjoys learning new things every day, handling both theoretical and practical aspects of complex projects.

MOTIVATION

Fan wants to be a mentor to help grow a talented student, listen to their goals for their career, and give them some advice from his own academic and industry experience. Personally, he also wishes to develop his personal leadership and motivational skills.

I have over 10 years of experience in supply chain management and optimisation between studies and work. My main driver is solving problems, I have focused my career on solving logistics and supply chain problems primarily in the retail industry, however I’ve worked in an array of industries including wholesale, automotive and pharmaceutical. For the past 3 years I’ve shaped and led teams in the IT consulting world, and most recently I have started the venture of building the operations team for project delivery in Australia.

Motivation

I am keen to give back what I’ve learnt so far in my career, mostly around leadership and generalist growth rather than specialist. I want to do this to expand my horizon and improve my motivational skills. I also would like to provide access to my network of contacts to help a mentee find the right opportunities.

I have a PhD in the magnetic studies of nanoparticles and spent 6 years conducting research in this field at DTU. I joined Danfysik 20 years ago, specializing in high-level accelerator magnet design primarily for synchrotrons, a type of research accelerator. I played a pivotal role in the design and beam commissioning of the Siemens particle therapy facilities for cancer treatments using proton and carbon beams. Additionally, I collaborated with Siemens Gamesa on the design, testing, and specification of permanent magnets for wind turbines. For two years, I worked at Tonica, developing pulsed coils for TMS treatments aimed at alleviating depression in humans. As a student, I spent 6 months at the University of Wisconsin as an exchange student, completed 2 years of my PhD work in the UK, and was a postdoc in Berlin for 6 months. I am Danish, married to an Iranian, and have a 22-year-old son.

Motivation

I would like to assist a student in my field (physics). I would like to hear about student life today and activities at DTU etc. Meeting and socializing also sounds great.

Hello. I am an engineer, a multimedia producer, an entrepreneur and the owner of SG multimedia. I have worked in different fields within multimedia and engineering for the last 20+ years – from music production, sound engineering and multimedia for mobile phones and building recording studios, through electronics and hardware production for the broadcast industry, consultancy and engineering, building video studios and automated systems for live-streaming, to video production, live-streaming and photography. It is in my veins to create new things and technologies, take precisely calculated risks and make things happen. I have an expertise in engineering, music, video production and entrepreneurship, the experience of establishing, growing and streamlining companies in the fields of hardware electronics products and audio and video multimedia.

Motivation

Through the years I have accumulated of diverse know-how and experience which I will be very happy to share with people who might benefit from it. I believe that we can learn from each other and create a better world for everyone through smart technologies.

I have 10 years of experience in the offshore wind farm integration to the grid. My career has been focused in the designing an optimised offshore wind farm (including transmission network to shore) according to the specific requirements on each country.

Motivation

I would like to develop my personal leadership and motivational skills by supporting and helping newly graduate colleagues in starting up with their careers.

I have been a supply chain leader for the last 25 years, working for companies in the Silicon Valley, just south of San Francisco, California. I retired in 2020 from Cisco Systems. I have worked with networking products and the associated technology both in terms of factory operations as well as how to launch new products into new supply chains around the world. I graduated from DTU in 1988 with a master’s in Mechanical & Industrial Engineering (Driftteknisk Institut at the time). As part of my career, I have always enjoyed building teams and coaching people in their careers. I have MBA from University of California in Los Angeles where I am also an active mentor.

Motivation

I have been a people manager for over 30 years and I have always enjoying coaching people on skills and career development. It gives me great personal satisfaction to see individuals grow in their careers, and I know from personal experience how important it can be to have mentors to guide during this journey. So for me this is also a way of giving back for what I have received from others during my career. I would like to mentor an individual who in the masters part of the program, so later in their education. I would prefer someone who has demonstrated an interest in working abroad by having international summer internships or assignments – I think I can be of particular help in educating them about what that entails.

I have 6 years of experience in founding a medical device start-up working with brain stimulation for healthy ageing. I have a PhD in signal processing and have co-authored patents for brain stimulation and signal processing. My work has sought to span across engineering disciplines: from software to electronics, user experience to manufacturing, quality control to regulatory aspects. Excellence and reflection are the driving factors in my work.

Motivation

As a student I benefited greatly from advice and mentorship from others. I wish to do my part in giving advice to those who seek it.

I wish to mentor someone who is looking for technical roles with a focus on deep knowledge. An interest in start-ups, entrepreneurship or at least applied work is also a big plus.

I have a background as an electrical engineer from DTU and have a PhD in Computer Science from the US (University of Washington in Seattle). In the early 00’es, I was one of the people who started the IT University and at the same time, I started the company Configit together with another professor and three of our phd students. This is where I have worked for the last 20+ years as head of the software development group. So I have a lot of experience in what it takes to develop enterprise-grade application software as well as how to take a small startup to be a “real” international company with 200+ employees and with some of the largest companies in the world as customers.

Motivation

I would like to help others achieve their potential (I know this sounds super-american !) But said otherwise, there is so many smart and energetic young people who I feel end up working in positions that do not utilize what they have learnt. Thus, I hope I can help motivate and guide a mentee to be brave and make bold choices when it comes to their education and career. Maybe even start a company some day 🙂

15+ years of experience from the contractor side in large and small companies in Denmark. Graduated from DTU in 2007.
Passionate about project development of construction projects based on early client involvement and design-build/turnkey contracts, as well as overall business operations. Has broad execution experience, especially with construction works (concrete, steel, soilworks, demolition etc.) and renovation projects in general. Has broadly developed, cost calculated and completed projects for commercial to pharma to renovations up to +600m DKK for Danish, as international customers. In addition, I work with customer relations, corporate strategy, team composition, sustainability implementation, etc.

Motivation

Our industry contains lots of attractive and unique opportunities for development and challenges, which I believe we have a responsibility to share with the industry’s potential talents. For many, the engineering education in construction is similar to subsequent work with consulting engineers.
I have learned that many skills are only learned when you start your first job, which is hopefully based on the platform you have gained through your education. And here I have a wish that there should be shorter from education to job – also for the contractor companies.

Just as engineering calculations (building design / statics, heat loss, fire, ventilation etc.) require special engineering skills, working with contractor project development, -pricing, -solving and -execution of projects also require special engineering skills – not just technically, but also humanly etc. This in line with the needs of the ongoing development of the industry’s forms of cooperation in construction, which require much more than hammers, rubber boots and large excavators. The contractor role requires, among other things, that young people can be creative, communicate, collaborate across disciplines and run high-quality projects under very dynamic conditions. With my experience, I want to support ambitious candidates and be an eye opener for, among other things, the attractive forms of collaboration and design-build roles I see construction companies will depend on in the future.

I have previously been a mentor internally at Hoffmann through our basecamp development process via our Norwegian owner Veidekke. This has been of great experience and benefit to both mentors and mentees.

I prefer to help a mentee living in Denmark who sees him-/herself in an ambitious role as project manager on construction projects in the future – perhaps the ambitions are higher on the long-term – time will tell. Internal communication will be in Danish.

I’m an experienced manager since more than 30 years. In Denmark and internationally. I have spend all of my career in large international corporates with a focus og business and organisational development. As my LinkedIn profile will show – with a clear focus and interest within sustainable energy and decarbonisation.

Motivation

Managing departments and companies in constant change offers a lot of opportunities to coach employees and peers. An experience that I am willing to share.

Henrik Tomis Bartel is a Digital Transformation Leader with 7 years of experience, currently serving as the Head of Business Process Automation IT at Nordea. He specializes in blending technology and social impact to drive positive change in society.

Motivation

I’m driven to mentor because I love nurturing others, whether they’re honing specialist skills or evolving into leaders. In our dynamic world, sharing my insights and experience is profoundly rewarding.

I value mentees who are eager to learn and adapt, resilient when faced with challenges, and aren’t afraid to challenge me with alternative ideas or arguments. This willingness to question and deviate from the norm triggers a richer learning experiences for both of us

Creative design engineer educated from DTU in 2017, with experience in product development with a user centric design perspective. Competences for mechanical design in CAD and 2D drawings.
In previous roles recognised for my human understanding in regards to nudging, user interface and user behaviour. Can translate that into good technical solutions.

Competencies:
– Identifying customer/user needs, design specifications
– Idea-generation and conceptualisation (brainstorm, morphology, function/means-tree)
– 3D modelling in Creo & Autodesk Inventor, 3D print
– Prototype, MVP development
– User/customer testing of product/MVP

Based on my experience, I can especially take responsibility for:
– Quality product development in early stages
– Co-creation workshops
– Find and define the relevant customer/user needs
– Thinking out of the box regarding good technical solutions
– Good supplier relation

Motivation

I want to help a student by sharing my career choices and my story – with both successes and failures. I would also like to expand my network among young, talented engineer students. The way I prefer to help is by asking “why” and “how” questions to the mentee when they share their career thoughts or other relevant things with me.

As a young professional, I have had a steep career development both in tech SMEs and corporate enterprises with a global outlook in all organisations.
My career has revolved around understanding complex industries and applying analytical decision making to drive the organisations forward in collaboration with stakeholders from different areas and backgrounds.
My current position in healthcare is focused around supplier management and driving supply chain development projects.

Motivation

It inspires and motivates me providing guidance to others.
I enjoy understanding their goals and to inspire others how to achieve them – something that is also a part of my current role to junior colleagues.
At the same time it develops my personal leadership skills and is a part of my career development.

Jacob has 7+ years of experience within mechanical engineering, fluid mechanics, simulations and project management. At the moment, his career is in a transition toward leadership and management. Based on his passion for product development, he makes better products and processes, in all phases of product development, also within organization strategies, management and leadership. In Jacob’s current position as a consultant, he gains knowledge from a broad range of industries.

Motivation

Jacob’s big motivation is to inspire, help, and motivate other people. As a mentor, he gets a unique opportunity to do this, and at the same time take social responsibility. As a part of Conflux, he can be a better leader in the future and, the mentee will have the opportunity to become a better student and future employee. Jacob also hopes a mentee will help him to see things in a new perspective, and thereby inspire and help him.

I work with building projects and people and have 10+ years of experience in making them work. My experience is in the Scandinavian countries and off-shore, and with my civil engineering background I have worked on mega scale projects and with the best architects in the world. My recent work has been as a building client consultant and technical project manager. I have written a PhD about collaboration in construction and won an international competition in building a city on Mars.

I have a Master of Science in civil engineering form DTU and have been a very active part of the DTU study environment.

Motivation

I like people. Talking to people and getting to know them. Mentoring and sharing ideas is something that comes naturally to me. If my stories and experiences can help somebody with their path, I am happy to share. Mentoring for me is a dialogue, and I can help people in the construction field in general, people who are interested in or already enrolled in PhD programs, civil engineers seeking management and leadership roles or somebody who is seeking a new path such as a start-up.

Technical University of Denmark (DTU) – B.Eng., Manufacturing Engineering

Jakob has 25+ years of experience within project management in R&D organizations for both consumer electronics and professional products, in both Danish and international companies. He has broad experience with managing development within cross-functional matrix organizations, in which highly specialized groups create unique products where several technologies are merged. Having had both project and budget responsibility from business case to full production, Jakob has a good understanding of challenges from defining a product, which can be completed within a development phase.

MOTIVATION

Jakob wants to become a mentor to help bridge the transition from student to working professional. He wishes to share his experiences from the business side of working as an engineer, and on a personal note, he wishes to establish a connection to the student environment to learn about the newest trends in education today.

I have +10 years of experience in the field of pavement engineering, covering a wide range of aspects within the field; material technology, structural pavement designs, construction supervision, R&D as well pavement management. In my career, I have worked on projects related to traditional road pavements to more complex pavements as those in airports and harbors. I have been very fortunate throughout my career that my work assignments have taken me basically all over the world and thus given me a brought understanding of how people consider pavement engineering in their region.

Motivation

My main motivation for being a mentor is actually to be able to share my experiences and knowledge with young, talented, and passionate engineering students. Throughout my career I have noticed that you can always learn something new, thus I really hope that the mentee will be able to teach me something new. At the very least I am convinced that the role of mentor will be a great experience that will give me some valuable personal- and professional development.

Jan has many years of experience with the healthcare industry and food industry on top of his master’s in chemical engineering. He works full time with developing leaders and organizations, and he has for the last 15 years+ been running his own company working with leadership, communication, team development, projects, globally.

Motivation

Jan wants to help young leaders growing up. And of course, also learning from their perspective. The best match for him is a mentee from Chemistry, Biotechnology, or chemical process technology, who also is interested in leadership, communication, personal development, and team development.

I have 10+ years of experience in energy, management and project management. I have worked in the Arctic (Greenland and Alaska) more than five years. I am highly experienced in integration of renewable technologies. My expertise is in energy planning as well as electrical and chemical storage, CCS/U, EV, electro fuels, heat pumps, hydro, wind and solar. I have vast experience with renewable energy projects in practice, especially in the arctic (and if it works in the arctic, it works everywhere!)

Motivation

I want to help a student by sharing my story. Hopefully they can learn from my experiences and make even better career choices them self. I would also like to extend my network among young, talented engineering students. I have gone from specialist to leadership and project management. If that’s what the student prefer I can probably help with that.

Jarl has 6+ years of experience with production environments, in particular producing medical devices. He has previously worked at Widex in a number of different roles – as an analyst, working with production and HR data, assistant to a factory manager, and lastly as a project manager, working with offshoring micromechanical assembly production from Denmark to Estonia. Currently, Jarl is with Acarix, a very small company, where he has a lot of different tasks; everything from the administration of their suppliers, warehouse management, continuous improvement to assembly manuals, supporting regulatory affairs and building new business processes drawing flowcharts, making forms and automating tasks with Excel VBA.

MOTIVATION

Jarl wants to become a mentor because he is motivated to share his knowledge and perspective of being an engineer. In general, he considers it a sparring relationship, which he also hopes he can gain from. As he describes it: Stupid people never learn, normal people learn from their own mistakes, smart people learn from other people’s mistakes. Jarl hopes to get a mentee from the latter category so that hopefully a mentee can learn something from his mistakes, and possibly be more aware of certain pitfalls. Jarl describes the good mentee as one who will ask many intelligent questions, which will force him to rethink why he does things the way he does it.

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5 years of experience within the healthcare industry working with medical devices. My career has revolved around ensuring that safe, effective and high-quality medical devices are available to patients worldwide in collaboration with health authorities, and different stakeholders. I am specifically focusing on design control and life cycle management of marketed products.

Motivation

I believe this mentoring program can benefit both the mentee and mentor regarding broadening our professional network and skills. I think it is important to share both successes and failures as both can teach us something and help us grow. I would love to help a mentee with the start of working life as well as setting ambitions for the future. I prefer helping a mentee with the ambition of starting a career in the healthcare industry.

Jason has 25+ years of experience primarily within and around IT, across a number of large and small companies and a range of industries, in Denmark. His career has spanned IT development, consulting, Project and Program Management, and leadership. He is currently involved in a major digital transformation in a leading Danish company, where he is leading, enhancing, and developing digital products within the operations area.

Motivation

Jason is looking to help a student by sharing his story, where he has both succeeded and failed. Together with supporting a student, he’s looking to further develop his personal leadership and motivational skills. Jason can assist a mentee with ambitions of going into leadership, someone moving from being a specialist to a generalist, or further developing as a specialist. Another positive would be to further grow his network among young, talented engineering students.

I have successfully transitioned from an internship to a full-time position in a pharmaceutical company in Denmark. My job is about selecting the right suppliers that can support the company’s worldwide production and maintaining the business relationship. My core skills include sourcing, supply chain insights, negotiation and project management. My main interests are sustainability and digitalization and how big companies can capitalize on this transformation.

Motivation

I want to develop my leadership and sparring skills. As a foreigner in Denmark, I want to help others to find their way into the Danish market. I look forward to connecting with bright and ambitious students, as well as expanding my current network. From my mentee, I expect a bi-directional way of communication where both mentor and mentee learn from each other.

As an engineer in Biotechnology and with a PhD in Industrial Biotechnology, I have a problem-solving mind-set and a strong passion for applied science that can contribute to a biobased economy. The main question for me in my PhD project was the use of enzyme technology to process plant biomass for high-value applications in a biorefinery. After graduating, I spent three years as a Postdoc in the group of interfacial enzymology at the Technical University of Denmark. My main focus was kinetic description and substrate interaction of plastic degrading enzymes. I am currently working as a scientist at Novozymes, oils and fats application research, developing enzyme solutions for a greener production of oleochemicals.

In my current role I develop as a project leader and the team work is something I really enjoy. I thrive when I am networking, collaborating and am part of a bigger context. Maybe that is not the picture of a typical scientist? But I want to show that you can be extrovert and outgoing and still have a strong scientific interest.

Except applied science and working towards a sustainable society, I burn for psychological well-being, work-life balance, equality and feminism.

In my spare time I enjoy hiking, cross-country skiing and I sing in a choir. 🙂

Motivation

I would love to develop my leadership and coaching skills and also to be there for a student, so he/she can ask all the “stupid” questions.

I am happy to share my journey from academia to industry and also want to motivate young people to believe in themselves and see their value.

I also want to discuss work-life balance and the importance of psychological well-being to be able to thrive and to do your best at work.

Jens Barnow is a seasoned, executive IT and cybersecurity professional with over 25 years of experience, with deep expertise in digital transformation. Currently serving as the Senior Vice President, Group Technology at Nets Group since 2015, he previously held the position of Vice President IT at NNIT and VP Operations at MACH. He also has a startup experience as an owner and product manager at PlanAHead A/S.

Motivation

To explore my leadership perspectives with mentees outside my organisation and meet new talent with new views and opinions on things, that can help me grow. Certain that my experiences in some form or shape can help a mentee in her further development and career. Test

Jens Jakob has 25+ years of experience working as a programmer – mostly in small teams. He is passionate about programming, math and technology in general. He seldom works more than 40 hours a week and believes in upholding work/life balance. He takes pride in making application that the user finds intuitive, that adds value (solve a problem) and he enjoys the interaction with the users and clients. Next to his current positions, Jens Jakob’s hobbies are VR, AI and gaming.

Motivation

Jens Jakob enjoyed his own time at DTU, but at the time, he found the transition to an actual career difficult. If he can contribute with careers or perspectives that would be great. He has been doing quite a bit of studies and math help through his years, and currently he is volunteering at a talk danish cafe for foreigners – mentoring sounded like he could use his skill set and have some enlightening talks and times.

Jens Rasmussen is a Socially Gifted Technician with over 15 years of experience. He is currently an Adjunct at KEA – Københavns Erhvervsakademi. He specializes in developing FileMaker solutions, providing IT assistance and training, and integrating software via web services.

Motivation

I like helping people. Specifically, this program might ideally enable me to help someone thrive in their effort to minimise inequality, lower the environmental impact… In short, create a better world.

Civil engineer and master in environmental law with over 25 years of experience in environmental administration and consultancy.
Ulrik’s main competences lie within policy development, negotiation and the implementation of environmental regulation, including contact and negotiation with authorities. Ulrik’s professional specialties are IPPC/IED, environmental approvals, supervision, planning and EIA, risk companies, and noise.
Ulrik has worked in several countries and has gained his experience from employment in environmental authorities, trade associations, production companies and consulting companies. In his previous employments, Ulrik has participated in international activities as an expert for the EU commission, e.g. in the preparation of the Industrial Emissions Directive.

Motivation

I’ve enjoyed being co-supervisor for a young engineering student finishing his thesis on noise propagation from metro trains. I prefer helping a mentee with ambitions of specialising in the environmental field.

Experienced and quality minded project and people manager, through all stages of medical device R&D, from concept to launch.

Skilled in managing complex development project and portfolios covering mechanical, electro-mechanical medical devices and drug/device combinations and including clinical trials. Successfully managed a 9,3 M€ international project with 13 partners and 50+ individuals involved. Experienced in project portfolio management and coaching of project managers.

Innovative, system oriented mind-set, ranging from mass produced primary packaging over advanced mechanical to complex electro-mechanical medical devices, resulting in more than 30 patent families and a solid understanding of patent work. Skilled in Design Control, Systems and Usability Engineering.

Trained in medical device research and development processes and documentation practices. Responsible for development and successful implementation of research process.

Extensive international and cross cultural expertise. Experienced in bi- and multilateral contract negotiation.

Enjoy working with students and have extensive experience in mentoring and supporting engineering students.

Motivation

– Enjoys motivating others to find new ways to approach challenges
– Inspiring to meet people, build network and get new inputs.

Jesper has 25 years of experience with technical service, B2B sales, and management first from a large company in Halder Topsøe, one of the global leaders within catalysis and process technology and now in a small start-up company SaltPower with an innovative technology for producing renewable energy. In the previous 9 years of his career, his work has been focused on business development and functional leadership, and fast and efficient evaluation of business opportunities is a key part of his job. Jesper, therefore, knows how it is to be at different levels of a company for many years, starting out in a technical role and moving into more generalist leadership roles in an international, large company. Recently, he switched to a new company, SaltPower, where the decision making process is much simpler and the tasks are more diverse. Being in a small company brings different challenges into the daily work.

MOTIVATION

What Jesper particularly enjoys in leadership is to help others find the right path. He hopes to engage in this program and improve his own skills along the way. Jesper wants to become a mentor because he hopes to help a student to see the big picture of his/her career and especially students with interest in the commercial/business part of working.

I have well over 30 years experience combined from the navy, maritime- and offshore industries, through past employment in the Royal Danish Navy (8 years), Maersk Drilling (24 years) and currently at Odense Maritime Technology (2+ years), where I work with consulting of foreign and domestic clients within shipbuilding.

Motivation

I want to introduce students to the maritime industry as a prospective international career opportunity.
I hope to inspire a mentee to pursue and gain experience from a substantive specialist track before proceeding on a generalist career path.

Jesper Thomsen is a Sales Director at Siemens Digital Industries with 18 years of experience in the field.  He specializes in leading sales teams, project planning, and management, with a focus on technical and commercial solutions for customers.

Motivation

I want to help a student by sharing my experiences- with both successes and failures.
I prefer helping a mentee with ambitions of going into leadership or sales or from being a specialist to a generalist.

+35 years of experience in the consulting business mainly focusing on the healthcare industry and business development.
My technical expertises are mainly within medical devices and establishing finished goods production facilities. A main denominator for this is early engineering studies bridging the gap between the business idea + an innovation and the real world of manufacturing and business development.

Motivation

If my knowledge in any way can help students aligning and rightsizing their ideas it would be great. The company where I’m partner has a long time tradition for giving back to the DTU community.

I graduated from DTU 2 years ago, and am now an ML engineer working on identifying oral health diseases for a danish company. At my job, I mostly work with state-of-the-art Deep Learning models which process 3D data structures. Alongside AI development, I also contribute to the creation and maintenance of internal algorithms, libraries and tools which support different workflows under the Diagnostic stream of the company.

My job involves collaborating with people from many different backgrounds such as dentists, managers, data annotators and other developers. Due to the constant contact with different people and the context switching that it involves, I am one of the coordinators for the work around he problems that I am working on, rather than just a technical executor. Though I am mostly focused on delivering high quality and reliable solutions to our end users, I often step out of the traditional developer role. For example, I am very vocal about the inefficiencies I encounter as well as about future projects and long term goals of my team. Thus, I have become actively engaged in helping to set direction for the team I am a part of by ensuring that we work as efficiently and collaboratively as possible. I do this by being part of things such as hiring, the way we do knowledge sharing and task prioritization,

Motivation

I am interested in getting to know motivated people. Outside of developing my personal leadership skills, I am genuinely interested in helping someone throughout their educational journey by offering guidance from the perspective of someone who likely has recently shared many of their concerns and insecurities about their future.
I think this process will be beneficial for both parts involved as students will have access to guidance from someone working on a highly interesting, competitive emerging market while, by counseling the students, I will be forced to reflect on my own situation and the greater context I am a part of in order to answer their questions.

+15 years of experience in pharma with different positions working across the value chain in research & global development, product launch office, new product planning, market access, digital health & strategy development. For the last 5 years with a focus on developing and executing real-world evidence plans & digital health data strategy and recently as a data lead director driving data science activities & strategy across development projects mainly within diabetes & obesity.

Motivation

Generally, I really like to help people grow and make career connections to support their development. I also want to practice my own coaching skills, while at the same time, helping a student by sharing my story – with both successes and failures. I prefer helping a mentee with ambitions of going into leadership or someone moving from being a specialist to a generalist.

I am Security Program Manager for the Dynamics 365 Products Group at Microsoft, but I have 30 years industry experience in Cloud and IT Operations – both as a manager/exec and Individual Contributor – in companies of every size.

Motivation

I think it is a wonderful opportunity to help those getting started with their careers. I mentor several young people within Microsoft and have found the experience to be very rewarding and mutually beneficial.

Jonathan Højberg is an R&D Director in the Battery Materials field at Haldor Topsoe A/S with 12 years of experience. He has a background in cleantech and has co-founded clean tech startup Blue Power Technologies, worked on batteries, fuel cells, electrolysis cells, and ocean wave harvesting projects. Additionally, he founded and served 10 years as a board member and administrator for the Danish Battery Society, promoting knowledge sharing on battery development and application in Denmark.

Motivation

I really enjoy talking to people, understand their situation and assist them to reflect on this. During my studies, I founded a cleantech startup and since then I have focused on converting deep technical understanding to business. Is has been a great journey with transition from specialist to generalist to leadership and I am happy to share my ups and downs.
I prefer helping engineers that want to do something about cleantech – for society, for research and for business. All three have always been key to me. I was mentee myself during my studies and know the value of having someone who has already transitioned from academia to industry assisting in ones self-reflection and bring inputs when relevant. With this opportunity, I would love filling this role for a young ambitious student.

I have 5+ years of experience as a consultant within IT security, specifically in the area of Identity & Access Management (IAM). My expertise is ensuring that organisations considers all aspects of ensuring control and security surrounding their identities (employees) and their access to IT systems. I have worked as both an implementation specialist for IAM software, and as a process and business specialist for getting big IAM implementation projects off to the right start.

Motivation

I am very interested in guiding young professionals in their transition from being a student to become a full time employee. I also want to further develop my personal and motivational leadership skills through mentoring a talented and ambitious student.

I am open to all mentees, but would be great to have someone who wants to work in the field between technology and business.

I came to Denmark about 21 years ago. I have 15+ years of experience within Chemical and biological process industries from large companies in Denmark. My career has revolved around product development and ensure efficient production processes to deliver biological products for different applications worldwide. My daily work involves collaboration with colleagues from different functions, such as Quality, Regulatory, Marketing and R&D. I am specifically focused on production processes and delivering the product.

Motivation

I want to develop my personal leadership and motivational skills. At the same time, I want to help a student by sharing my story – with both successes and failures. I would also love to get a bigger network among young, talented engineering students.

I have an educational background, and 2 years professional experience in Spacecraft Engineering, having a strong skillset within design control of complex systems, involving mechanical components, hardware and software. I have collaborated with NASA and MIT on a software development project, for the deep space mission Psyche, and hence have strong skills collaborating with foreign stakeholders in a highly regulated industry.
After discovering my passion for design control, I moved into the medical device industry, where I have 2 years experience within system engineering and design control of medical devices. Switching to the medical device industry has allowed me to accelerate my career within design control, as working for large companies provides a great amount of resources for training and educational activities. I was working as a system engineering lead, managing multiple projects and people, ensuring deliverables and high quality products, for both clinical trials and market entry. My focus has been on driving cross functional technical issues.
Latest, I have moved my career into the field of Software as a Medical Device, where I have the opportunity to combine my skills from software development and design control of medical devices. As design responsible, I drive design control activities, and stakeholder collaboration.

Motivation

I have a large interest in guiding people in their careers, which I discovered, working with freshly graduated people in my design control position. I possess a great psychological insight, and enjoy putting my skills to use when helping people discover their own passions, and self reflecting on their wants.
Having made a career shift myself, from the space industry, which I thought was my true passion, into medical devices, I wish to inspire others to think out of the box when reflecting on their career, and help them discover what truly drives them.

Karsten Vig Knudsen is a seasoned professional with over 20 years of experience. He has held leadership roles in Telco and IT industries, focusing on product management, channel management, digital transformation, and business development. Karsten has a track record of delivering strong results, leading teams, and driving customer-focused strategies for commercial success.

Motivation

I want to share my knowledge and Experience from many years of leadership positions in the tech/telco industry. By doing so I can help a mentee to develop and to learn from my experience. I have hired more than 25 people in my career and have also mentored graduates.
On a personal note I want to learn and to sharpen my skills in mentoring and inspirational skills.

Hey my name is Keegan, I’m an Environmental Engineer from DTU, and I work as a Sustainability Strategist at Accenture consulting, where I’ve spent the last 3½ years working with clients on solving their toughest sustainability challenges, transforming their business models to be future-ready, and helping create and set ambitious sustainability strategies and goals.

My experience predominantly lies within Net Zero transitions and the Circular Economy, where I have worked with various clients from consumer goods, pharmaceuticals and manufacturing, where I’ve helped establish Product Carbon Footprint capabilties, Product Environmental Footprints, CSRD, Science Based Targets and Decarbonisation Strategies

Motivation

I’m keen to give back, and help nurture the skillset and talent coming out of our universities, and helping close the gap between inventing a solution for a problem, and getting ‘the business’ to understand it’s value, use case and close the cliche product-market fit

We are in need of large transformations if we are to mitigate negative impacts from climate change, and I firmly believe that these big ideas will come from motivated and driven students graduating from our universities. I’m incredibly motivated by creating value and making a difference, and so I hope that my experience with C-suite executives and large multi-national organisations can help steer and inform people’s understanding of what the real work looks like, and how change is really initiated in an organisation

Kell Michael Jensen has over 30 years of experience in product development. He has held various roles like embedded developer, technical project manager, software architect, system engineer, and quality manager. Kell has extensive experience in project management, people management, and system engineering. He is certified in IPMA, PMI, PRINCE-2, and Safe 5, and is skilled in agile development, network, and security aspects, as well as programming in languages like C, C++, Python, and JavaScript.

Motivation

I want to help a talented engineer get a good start in life, as I hope others will do for my kids.

I have 8 years of experience as a network architect from several companies within Denmark. I am focusing but not limiting to network infrastructure architecture (WAN, LAN), software defined network solutions, network design and testing. I have worked both as a network architect designing and deploying the network infrastructure of the company and as a network architect consultant for other companies.

Motivation

I would like to inspire, orient and guide individuals that are new to the job market and are interested in pursuing a successful and rewarding career. I want to enhance my communication skills while reading the pulse of the new generation and getting in touch with individuals that have new and fresh ideas. I gain pleasure and satisfaction by providing support, help and spreading the knowledge to people looking for it.

I have 8 years of experience within the pharma industry from large companies and start ups in Denmark. My career has been in automation and IT areas in various pharma projects. At the moment I am working as IT/QA Senior Professional for Novo Nordisk focusing in compliance of all IT systems.

Motivation

I have already helped many of my friends who have recently graduated from Danish universities to introduce them in Danish market. I am quite experienced with preparation with interviews, CVs and cover letters so that would help my mentee to get ready for his entry to Danish market. I expect from my mentee to be a person who is self driven, engaged, motivated and dedicated on what he is doing as these are for me some of the key points to start a career.

I work as a systems test engineer at FOSS Analytical, a company that develops high-end equipment for food analysis based on FT-IR and NIR Spectroscopy, X-ray, Flow Cytometry, and image analysis technologies.
The job consists of Hardware test and calibration in manufacturing/production, Electronics, mechanical, and software development and design of automated test equipment.
I have also worked for Ambu A/S, ensuring that single-use endoscopy products get approved for the EU and US markets. The job was a mix of Regulatory Affairs, Risk Analysis, and Design Control.
I studied Medicine and Technology at DTU with focus on Biotechnology and photonics. I have developed several research microscopes and enjoy experimental physics. I’m hard working, creative and have a positive outlook. I’m great at communicating complex ideas and can quickly grasp convoluted topics.

Motivation

Helping someone to find their own path, is one of the best ways to facilitate reflection about you own choices and struggles along the way. It’s a unique opportunity to give back to a community that helped you succeed in the first place. And it’s a lot of fun.
I would like to be a mentor for someone who loves physics and is not afraid of taking risks.

I am a medical device specialist with broad experience in electronics, electroacoustics, signal processing, signal analysis and physics. I hold several patents within the field of hearing aids.
I have always worked in R&D. First as a Development Engineer, and since both as a Team Leader, a Project Manager, and a System Architect. This has given me a good background, both in the mere interaction with many different people in an organization, and more specifically in MDD and FDA requirements for medical devices, development processes and an awareness of the needs of other teams and disciplines involved.
My main force is the holistic focus and the cross functional overview, where the interaction between different disciplines is necessary.
As a manager, I believe in trust, information sharing, and transparency as the way to get the best team spirit and performance.
I enjoy explaining technical stuff to others, whether orally or in writing. Over the years, I have authored several articles and a book chapter on hearing aid processing and have made presentations for information and education, both in the company and externally.

Motivation

Over the years, I have gained a lot of experience, both technically and not least more generally, how you get around and along in a large organization. I believe, I can help new engineers with sparring and coaching in areas that are essential in a work life, but that you don’t necessarily learn about during an engineering education.
I believe that input from people outside my usual professional life can make me a better leader. This is what originally drove me to sign up as a mentor. It was in another mentor program and through my participation here, I have realized that I get much fulfillment out of helping others. In my role as a mentor, I don’t just help the mentees reflect on their situation. It very easily also leads to me reflecting on my own situation.

Lars has 30+ years of experience within project management and has specialized in large-scale investment projects within pharmaceutical production sites, worldwide. Project leadership and organizing investment projects, every phase from the first ideas, through design and execution to finish and hand over. He has good knowledge and insight of many pharmaceutical processes, incl. qualification, validation, and regulatory requirements.

MOTIVATION

Lars wants to become a mentor to help and support everybody who is engaged and dedicated to building an interesting life and career. Personally, he uses every opportunity to learn and develop himself, and Lars enjoys collaborating with the many students from many countries through Novo Nordisk, which has created many friendships.

Mikkel Johannessen is a seasoned international consultant and team leader specialized in development assistance working with Danida, Danida Sustainable Infrastructure Finance and the World Bank to mention some. Mikkel is specialized in climate change, water and renewable energy with more than 30 years of international experience working with complex development processes in emerging economies. He has extensive experience working with and for the private and public sector from working in 7 countries in Asia, 8 countries in Africa, 7 countries in the Americas and 6 countries in Europe. Experience includes: Leading smaller and larger teams in development processes; Assessment and development of institutions and organizations capacities; Concept development of water, renewable energy, climate and green growth programs; Process management in development of complex strategies, projects and programs; Results management and impact evaluation of programs for sustainable development in emerging economies; Facilitation of workshops on strategy and vision/mission development

Motivation

Earlier experience from being a mentor has entreaged me. The value of seeing students and young professionals in developing and giving answers to some of their curious questions rewards me. I would be extremely happy to assist students in pointing them in direction that makes sense for them. Guiding their professional choice would be satisfying and gives me ideas to assist my work with small and medium size companies in their need for recruiting their professionals.

Lars Nørgaard leads an R&D team working on intelligent data-driven solutions, including chemometrics, algorithm development, machine learning, and image analysis for spectroscopic instrument development. Lars has extensive experience in academia and has held positions in various organizations, including FOSS and University of Copenhagen. He holds a PhD in Chemometrics from the Technical University of Denmark.

Motivation

I have excellent experience from being a mentor at University of Copenhagen for both master students and on KUs tenure track assistant professor program. It is rewarding to get a fresh input from young talented professionals and also maybe be able to support them in their early career by listening, giving advice, discussing the many opportunities and related uncertainties.

Ledian has 10+ years of experience within Data Analytics, BI and Data Science related roles. He has an engineering background in IT from DTU and a MSc. in Petroleum Engineering from Heriot Watt University. Moreover, he has significant training and experience in business in multinational big corporations in Denmark, such as A.P. Møller-Mærsk, Nordea and Danske Bank. He has experience from both the oil and gas industry and the banking sector within the financial crime area and digital channels. Ledian’s exposure has been primarily in data analytics using a variety of tools, databases (relational & Hadoop), visualization and data modeling (in QlikView, PowerBI/Power Query, Tableau, but also MS SQL & Oracle databases), including data preprocessing, machine learning and big data. Next to his corporate experience in these two main industries, Ledian also has experience with a start-up abroad and has studied in different countries, giving him professional foothold both nationally and internationally. He also hosts a podcast about fitness and teaches indoor cycling and functional training classes in his spare time.

MOTIVATION

Ledian wants to become a mentor to share his own personal experiences with students and help them find a relevant career path. Moreover, he would like to guide students particularly within within data science as well as to apply their topics of interest into ultimately building their successful careers.

Lone Bonde has 10+ years of experience in mechanical and industrial engineering. She is currently a Team Manager at Netcompany, leading software developers working on CRM solutions and integration projects. Previously, she held various roles at GEA Group, including Senior Project Manager and Head of Calculation Tools, working on digitalization and process plant design.

Motivation

I would like to offer my views and perspectives to someone interested in an open discussion on career and personal development.

Boasting +30 years of experience, predominantly at Novo Nordisk, Lotte currently serves as the Chief Scientific Advisor, being part of the Research leadership for the company. Her career spans from scientist roles to Scientific Corporate Vice President, specializing in drug discovery, molecular pharmacology, and toxicology, and she has thus gained a very broad knowledge of the pharma value chain.

Motivation

I do quite a lot of mentoring. I am a very successful entrepreneurial scientist and I like to give back to the community I came from. I am a DTU alumni.

I have more than 14 years of sales experience and have consequently built a solid foundation in sales, business development, and marketing. On the basis of my broad experience in sales and direct customer contact, I have become a dedicated relationship builder with a focus on creating long-term customer relations. Likewise, I have functioned as a product specialist with responsibility of launching new products in the Danish market, thereby creating deep experience with sales strategies, benchmarking, customer segmentation, and competition analyses.

Motivation

I am currently a mentor for young engineers with approximately 3-4 years of work experience. Throughout my mentorship, I have developed my motivational skills but would like to develop my skills even more. At the same time, I would like to help and motivate a student standing right there, in front of the start of their professional life. Sharing my story, -do’s and dont’s. And in return, I will learn and experience how talented our engineering students are. They bring the newest knowledge to the table.
I prefer helping a mentee considering choosing a career as a technical area sales manager/sales engineer.

Maciej is a professional with experience in renewable energy project development and sustainability. He is currently a Senior Associate at Connected Infrastructure Capital, focusing on energy projects in wind and PV in Poland and Europe. He also has experience as a Manager of Renewable Energy Projects at European Energy A/S and has a Master’s degree in Sustainable Energy from the Technical University of Denmark (DTU).

Motivation

I have 3,5 years of working in Renewable Energy Project Development and Construction sector. I work with large scale onshore wind and solar project acquisition and development for a small private Independent Power Producer company (IPP). To match my scope of work with a particular course at DTU which provided me with the greatest insight into the sector, I will point at “46200 Planning and development of wind farms” led by Niels-Erik Clausen.

As a student fascinated by this January course I have wondered how to become an active part in the rollout of wind and solar energy and what it took to have a direct impact on the project development and construction. The job involves a interdisciplinary approach, where not only engineering, people skills, economics but even legal basis and writing skills are equally essential. Thus, the sector I wish to showcase requires a move from being an engineering specialist into a generalist with an technical background.

To this day, I can proudly say that I have completed 42 MW of wind energy, having erected 15 turbines across Poland. Furthermore, I managed to secure 120 MW of PV for my former employer in Denmark and I would love to show this world to another interested individual.

As I have noticed, to be passionate about one’s job it is particularly helpful to work along one’s ideals and have an unquestioned feeling that one’s job has a direct positive impact. I am lucky enough to have found a sector, where all of the above could have become reality. I will be delighted to introduce someone into this field, as I would have wished while being a student myself those few years ago. I will try to cover all of the goals, failures and successes.

Marcos has 7+ years of experience in Software Development. He hs worked in startups, and more recently in big companies. Marcos has worked developing products that involve Computer Graphics, Transport Simulations, Mobile Applications and large scale Distributed Systems. He has also worked in every area of the continuous development cycle, design, programming, testing, deployment and monitoring. Marco is constantly trying to improve his work by learning new practices and technologies and has been an agile practitioner, introducing progressively agile practices to the teams he has worked in.

Motivation

Marcos wants to participate to help a student, by sharing his experience with students; how is it like to move from startups to a big company, and the software engineering profession in general.

Martin is an international professional with 20+ years of leadership experience with OEM/in-house injection moulding manufacturing and R&D development, of which 16 years are within the Project Management and New Product Implementation environment – across diverse global industries, including Children Toys, Automotive, Mobile Phones and Medical Devices. Martin possesses and can demonstrate deep knowledge and experience in Industry 4.0 – industrial automation and injection moulding production.

Motivation

Martin would like to share his story and motivate a student in the world of engineering. He wants to show how openness and mobility can take you around the world and make you the CV that opens doors to a worldwide network that brings you opportunities for a lifetime. Introduce the specifics within injection mounding that the industry needs. He hopes to bring to a mentee new perspectives of possibilities after education and how to deal with expectations.

Matej has 9 years of experience as an engineer / scientific programmer within acoustics, numerical methods, computational modeling and tool development. He has worked within these fields both through his Ph.D. research (done in collaboration with Siemens), as well as directly in the industry both as a specialist and people manager. He works today at Ørsted, where he has become the lead numerical specialist in the Optimization & Acoustics team.

Motivation

Matej’s daily tasks encompass interaction with important stakeholders, external consultants, and government regulatory representatives. He is continuously developing his technical as well as stakeholder management skills, however, would be honored to share his lessons learned with bright, young mentee who might end up in similar situation: Maintaining his/her specialist role & competences while from time to time get out of the comfort zone, put a ‘generalist hat’ on, take responsibility and start making more risk-based rather than certainty based decisions.

I have 3 years of experience within the construction industry from large turnkey contractors and a consulting engineering firm in Denmark. My career has revolved around ensuring buildable and sustainable solution on large turnkey contracts while coordinate the solutions between the different stakeholders. I am specifically focusing on a wide and interdisciplinary insight in the construction industry.

Motivation

I want to help students to get more insight earlier in their educational progress and help them to be more conscious about their opportunities while getting to know some new people and evolve a better network between students and educated engineers. I prefer helping a mentee who is ambitious but is not entirely certain of which directions and how to live out one’s full potential.

I am a generalist and come with multiple years of professional experience within software development, primarily in the .NET framework/C# which started in Poland and until recently continued in Denmark. I gained basic education in Electrical and Computer Engineering during my Bachelor studies in Poland, and specialized in the field of Mathematical Modelling and Computation during my Master studies at DTU. Currently, I am a second year Industrial PhD student enrolled at AAU and employed by Milestone Systems A/S in Brondby. I specialize in conducting Video Anomaly Detection in the field of Computer Vision, promoting safety and security in the video surveillance industry. Please also have a peak at the description in my LinkedIn profile.

Motivation

I participated multiple times in the DTU Introduction Week when I was still a Master student – both, as buddy and in the role of the PF buddy coordinator. I enjoyed every minute of those days, especially because of the inspiration I managed to gather from all the people I encountered on my way, and because of the feedback I have received later on from a lot of those I could help and support. I feel that with my progressing career, I have even more to share nowadays and would love to know that this experience of mine can prove useful to other young engineering students. I was in doubt and fear about a lot back then, but looking back allows me to see how much I have grown in fact, so I hope that sharing my story with others could help them be less doubtful and fearful. I enjoy helping and working with all sorts of people, hence, I believe that there is honestly nothing in particular that I am looking for in a mentee apart from having a vision, hope and confidence to be able to have an impact.

I have 25+ years experience within IT from large multi-national companies and IT service providers. My career has been centered around the business and IT collaboration and value creation – mainly in positions of global responsibility for IT Strategy, Transformation, Technology Innovation and Enterprise Architecture. I have covered various areas of technical expertise as well as Leadership positions at all levels of the IT organization. I have worked out of Denmark – with teams, direct reports, partners and customers located around the globe.

Motivation

I have often worked with students and graduates and have always found the the intersection of new and fresh insights and energy – and industry experience – brings great learning and inspiration for both. Having the chance to support young talents and at the same time leverage experience and insights, offers an opportunity to “give something back” in return for the many who have supported and inspired me throughout my career – while learning from the interaction and a different perspective. I prefer a mentee with ambitions to combine technology and leadership to drive change – and with a passion not only for the technology but also for the impact it has on its surroundings.

Michael has been working 20+ years in the heavy industry (cement industry). He has had various roles within his current company, spanning from detailed mechanical engineering, training of colleges inland and abroad, on-site supervision, and troubleshooting. Today, he is responsible for aftermarket support for a certain group of equipment, daily using his experiences.

Motivation

Michael would like to spend time becoming a mentor for sharing experiences, and to give points of view for the young students, getting them to the base they want to be at. At the same time, he will most likely benefit with direct knowledge to the latest tech from the university

Michael has 20+ years of experience within the telecommunications industry working for various international companies in Denmark. His career has revolved around building large-scale networking solutions (including cryptography) for business customers. He has worked exclusively in R&D working with both embedded software and firmware design and has a wide range of experiences within the field.

Motivation

Michael wants to develop his personal leadership and motivational skills. At the same time, he wants to help a student by sharing his story – with both successes and failures, and by offering sparring. He would prefer helping a student with ambitions of becoming the best.

Michael Rasmussen has extensive experience in IT management, technical services, and customer success. He is currently the VP Tech Services at Queue-it, where he has been instrumental in developing and managing the growth of the Technical Service team to support top global brands. With expertise in SaaS service, retail, FMCG, transportation, and government industries, Michael is passionate about client engagement, process improvement, and delivering results through a data-driven approach. He also has experience as an IT Operations Manager at Dagrofa and as a Chief Consultant at Statens IT.

Motivation

With many years of experience in technical and commercial leadership positions, I would like to share my experience with a mentee and help a student to kick off her/his career and at the same time learn about the latest from her/his field of study. I am passionate about inspiring and empowering young people, creating opportunities for their personal and professional growth in the digital age, and harnessing the power of technology, particularly AI.

I am a computer science background graduate who has been working in the financial industry for 7 years. I started my career as a IT graduate in Nordea. Afterwards I have been closely working on the trading systems for around 6 years now. It’s quite challenging but amazing to work in a cross-domain environment, I have grown so much in both Finance and technical skills.

Motivation

I benefited a lot from my communication with my mentors within my organization. I want to pass on my transition experience to more new graduates who will start their career soon. At the same time, I want to experiment how does the mentor role look like.

I am a Certified Senior Project Manager with 12+ years of experience within the Wind sector.
Throughout my career, I have been deeply involved in New Product Development Wind Turbine projects throughout all phases, initially as engineer being part of the design and validation team, and later as Project Manager.

Motivation

I want to be a mentor to develop my leadership and mentoring skills.
I also want to be able to share my experience as a DTU alumni expat with students who might be going through the same challenges. As a woman in engineering, I would love to empower other women to pursue a career in engineering, ideally in the Wind Energy sector.
I would like to help a mentee who has a strong technical background (preferably within mechanical, structural or wind energy) who is also interested in the project management side.

Mirko Ledro is an electrical engineer with expertise in wind and battery storage integration. He is currently an Industrial PhD candidate at Ørsted – DTU, researching battery degradation in stand-alone and co-located systems. With experience as a Research Assistant at DTU Wind and Energy Systems and a Teaching Assistant at Technical University of Denmark, Mirko has worked on projects related to renewable energy, energy management, and electric vehicles. He holds an MSc in Sustainable Energy – Wind Energy from DTU and an MSc in Electrical Energy Engineering from the University of Padua.

Motivation

I am looking for a highly motivated student, open to get input and deeply think how to best shape its future carrier. I am absolutely open to share how I took my most important decision in life, from leaving my home country without any economical support to write the PhD project I am currently working on and receive economic fundings.

At the same time, I am looking for a student ready to provide me feedback to improve my mentorship skills for a win-to-win cause. I love to improve myself, and the occasion to try this new challenge motivates me highly.

In the past, I have been supervising several MSc thesis projects, as well TA in few DTU MSc courses. Additionally I have been providing suggestions/motivations to former DTU students about how to move through their studies (courses, assignments, group works) as well providing feedback about CVs for job applications.

In general, I love to help and contribute shaping younger generations. Being helpful is one of my core personality traits.

Mueed has 10+ years of experience in communication systems and project management, while having the technical system understanding, and he’s used to managing different project phases as technical, design, test, implementation, operational and financial, while keeping the client in focus. Mueed used to work with simultaneous project deliveries and deadlines and has a sense of urgency when it is needed.

Motivation

Having the right skills and experience for guiding young talents to taking the correct steps in their career journey, is something Mueed believes he can be part of. Through his work life, he has worked as a specialist and now as a generalist (Project Manager), and this gives him an inside understanding of situations from different perspectives. Guiding teams to right direction and understanding the issue (technical / contractual) is his daily work and sharing this for the new science generation will better prepared them for focusing on the career direction. By having success and failure, he can help to guide the new generation to fulfilling their steps in the correct direction. Mueed prefers helping a mentee with ambitions of going from a specialist to a generalist on the long term.

Results-driven professional with a diverse background in the wind energy industry, specializing in commercial strategy, supply chain management, and logistics. Skilled in analytics development, stakeholder management, and cross-functional collaboration. Passionate to work in international environments and take up new challenges.

Motivation

I want to inspire and provide career support to a young student, as this was very helpful to me when I was a student but because I also do it not for profit for young people anyways. Helping others and learning from bright and passionate people serves as an inspiration to me as well.

Nadia has 7 years of experience in the Life Sciences industry working in Denmark and internationally (mainly in Switzerland and Germany). Nadia has experience with digital strategies for R&D, optimization of laboratory processes, instrument validation, project management and regulatory affairs. Nadia has a background in Applied Chemistry and Pharmaceutical Design & Engineering from the Technical University of Denmark (DTU).

Motivation

I hope to be able to inspire students and provide support and guidance in their individual journeys. I also see this as a great way to develop my mentoring skills.

Nanna has 3+ years of experience from the pharmaceuticals and food industry. During her studies and time at Radiometer and Chr. Hansen, she has gained strong problem-solving skills, a quality mindset, experience working in GMP environments and great interpersonal skills. Furthermore, she has achieved an international mindset from her time as an exchange student at the University of Aberdeen (UK). As an individual, Nanna describes herself as having a high level of positive energy, a creative mindset and a structured way of working. Moreover, she thrives working in dynamic environments with room for professional and personal development. She is currently working as a Quality Assurance and Design Control Engineer at TeesuVac ApS.

MOTIVATION

Nanna wants to become a mentor to develop her motivational skills and help a student by sharing her story – successes and failures. Also, she would love to expand her network among young engineering students. Nanna would also like to help a mentee that wants to excel in their field and who has also had a couple of hard times during their studies.

Nanna has 6+ years of experience with system design, usability, and innovation. She describes herself as a professional, responsible, outgoing and inventive innovation engineer with a background in user involved product system design, as well as extensive experience with the facilitation of coaching and user-involving workshops. She is motivated by design of new functions and ideas to help and influence patients or users in getting a better everyday life – especially with medical devices, which she has been working on in her previous job as a project manager LEO Innovation Lab, established as a separate entity by LEO Pharma. Currently, she has moved away from medical devices and instead works with the usability of wireless screen mirroring and digital signage at Airtame.

MOTIVATION

Nanna had a mentor herself at her previous job, and it was a very helpful experience that she learned a lot from. She wants to become a mentor to advise and guide a student if she is able to do the same.

Natalia Volani is an “Operations & Process Improvement” professional with experience in lean six sigma, process excellence, and continuous improvement. She currently works as an Operational Excellence Specialist at Lundbeck. With a background in engineering and management, she has worked in various roles, including Production Manager and Management Trainee, where she focused on production planning, facilities management, and change management. She holds an MSc in Management & Analysis of Operations from the Technical University of Denmark and a Diploma in Engineering from Polytechnion Kritis.

Motivation

I have been lucky enough to have mentors through my academic and professional career and they -all- contributed to my development both regarding hard competences, soft skills but also as two extra eyes and an extra viewpoint on many cases. I felt grateful and I would also like to pass on the same to other people and perhaps try to help them in their lives. I have friends from around the world and I collaborate with other cultures on a daily basis. So! I have no particular requirements about the mentee’s background, just that they are driven and active on growing in their personal and professional lives.

Nestor Gómez is a “Maritime Engineer” with a focus on “Ship Design and Project Management.” He holds a degree from Universidad Nacional de Ingeniería in Peru and completed a Nordic Master in Maritime Engineering with a Ship Design track from the Technical University of Denmark and Chalmers University of Technology. Currently, he works as a Structural/Naval Engineer at OSK-ShipTech A/S. His expertise includes naval structures, ship resistance, and design concepts for Ro-Pax, fishing, and river vessels. He is skilled in software such as AutoCAD, MaxSurf, Rhinoceros, Ansys, and Starccm+, as well as calculation tools like Excel and MatLab.

Motivation

Where I come from, I have worked as a generalist and this has oppened me different doors to enjoy the field where I curently work and to evaluate many possibilities. On this matter, I am a person that enjoyes learning and teaching (I have been a workshop teacher at my home university in Peru and a guest lecturer at DTU). If my experience as an expat and profesional can be of help to locals and/or other expats, I would love to share it as much as possible.
I look on a mentee for someone not only with ambition, but with a passion for learning and for the field that might be of his/her interest.

Throughout my career, I have gain tremendous experience within IT and management. With a unique academic background, I bring a variety of competencies from technical to commercial into my role. In all my roles, I have been focusing on customer experience and stakeholder management. I’ve been working with high profile customers where strategy planning as been a key focus.

Motivation

I want to strengthen my skills within personal leadership meanwhile building relationships and expanding my network.
Furthermore, I would like to help young students to get a better start to their career with advise and in other way I can help.
I am looking for a mentee who is ambitious and motivated to build a strong career but who maybe need some help, advise or guidance to how to do so.

Niels-Erik Clausen is an Associate Professor with 23 years of experience at DTU Wind Energy. He has a background in Mechanical Engineering and applied thermodynamics in general, with expertise in desalination and diesel engines. Niels-Erik Clausen held managerial roles in environmental design and development at Burmeister & Wain Scandinavian Contractor A/S. Since 2000 he has worked with wind energy research, innovation, and teaching. First as a Senior Advisor at Risø National Laboratory for Sustainable Energy followed by 11 years as associate professor at DTU Wind and Energy Systems.

Motivation

I enjoy supervising, mentoring and motivating young professionals.

I have 18 years of leadership experience managing organizational change processes, technical projects and quality assurance and food safety programs in food producing and biotech/pharmaceutical companies. My key contribution to an organization is bridging technical insight with the strategic outlook required to run change management processes and coordinating project portfolios on a corporate level.

With an educational background in chemical engineering I have on a continuous basis sought to expand my horizon by studying project and change management and strategic development of business processes.

Working for multinational companies and as a consultant has given me the opportunity to gain a broad experience working on short and longer term assignments in Denmark, Sweden, Finland, Germany, Baltics, Poland, India and USA.

Specialties:
* Quality control and quality assurance programs in pharmaceutical, food, feed and technical industries
* Change management and knowledge management in the technology and operations area
* Project management and business development

Motivation

One of the best things about working in a leadership position is to coach and mentor – from young talents to more seasoned veterans: I’m a generalist and leader from nature and would prefer to mentor people either making a transition to their first leadership position – or from first line management into a more tactical/functional/senior leadership role.

Niels Putzer is a “Technical Account Manager” at Amazon Web Services (AWS) with 10 years of experience in the IT and data center management field. He specializes in project ownership, management, and coordination, with a focus on leading others. He has international experience and expertise in data center operations, network infrastructure, and project management.

Motivation

I want to share from my experience gathered over the years working in Large Companies. I have also significant experience from working abroad and what benefits and limitations there are to this. Looking to improving my personal leadership skills and understand what the new and young talents look for in their job as well as in their leaders.

I have 7+ years of experience working within technical Cyber Security in Denmark in small and large consultancy companies as well as in a big enterprise. Primarily, my work experience is within Security Incident Response, Threat Detection and Threat Intelligence. However, I also worked as a team leader for a year. During MSc, I did my Master’s thesis abroad in Holland with Philips Research. I am currently working as a Senior Incident Responder and Threat Intelligence Analyst at Ørsted.

Motivation

I am looking for an opportunity to give back. I remember that time when I had to make first career choices. I had plenty of questions and I wish I had a mentor whom I could as those questions. So I want to share the experience and pros and cons in working within different areas and roles in Cyber Security with those who are interested.

Nikolaj Friis Hansen is a Usability Specialist with 3 years and 8 months of experience at Coloplast. He has a background in Biomedical Engineering and is experienced in Design Control, Usability, Biocompatibility, and Project Management within the Medical Device Industry.

Motivation

Mainly to help out. It could be a rewarding and mutually beneficial experience.
I want to partner with a student who is looking to start in the medical devices sector or similar. If they have a focus on the patient or user centric design, then that is a big plus and would be the most natural fit. I prefer a mentee that is exploring directions they may find interesting or looking for a relatively fresh perspective within an established industry.

I am a leader with 20 years of experience from several managerial positions with the common denominator being change and business transformation. My latest accomplishment was a successful turnaround of BWSC – an international company within the energy sector – which I headed as the CEO. Now, I have embarked on a new adventure as COO of Green Therma – a start-up focused on geothermal energy – with the ambition to become a significant player in the green energy transition.

Motivation

I would like to contribute to the development of the next generation of STEM professionals. I believe my most valuable contribution would be within the energy sector, but I am open to other sectors as well.
Personally, I would like to get insights into the next generation of employees in terms of ambitions, dreams, competences, experience, values, requirements to employers etc.

Civil engineer with specialisation in Geotechnical Engineering and Master in Civil Engineering with focus on Building Information Modelling. 5+ years of experience within construction industry related to metro projects in Copenhagen.

Motivation

When I was newly graduated from DTU, I had a lot of questions/thoughts regarding my next steps on the work industry, which is the right path to choose etc., and I would have much appreciated if someone could have given me some feedback or suggestions about all of these concerns that I had. This is the main reason why I would like to share my experience with a new professional and help as much as possible or at least to be there for any questions that they might have and I can support with. Moreover the intercourse with a young, talented and full of energy and ambitions engineer will also help me to improve my communication skills and learn more for example about new technologies that might be recently developing in my field and universities have already inserted them in the educational programs.

I am a highly motivated wind energy engineer, with experience in Loads & Control, while I have also worked a great deal with turbine operational data. Currently, I am working as a Lead Control Engineer, designing and tuning the controller of future turbines. I have an in-depth understanding of wind turbine operation, but most importantly I am proactive and I can work as part of a multidisciplinary team.

Motivation

I believe that everyone needs a helping hand at some point in their career. Whether that is to figure out what they like, or to figure out how to get there, getting started is not easy. So, if I could help someone even a little bit, I think I should at least try.

I am a recent DTU graduate with a MSc in Computer Security and I have worked for more than 2 years as a software engineer in the telecommunications industry, both in Denmark and Greece. I am particularly interested in cybersecurity, embedded systems, IoT and DevOps while I also have some experience with Machine Learning and Neural Networks.

Motivation

I believe I have acquired useful experiences through my graduation from DTU and navigating the Danish job market that would be useful for a younger professional. I am just interested in passing on to the next generation and widen my professional network in Copenhagen.

Nilma Abbas, an accomplished IT and Electronics engineer, serves as a lecturer at Zealand Sjælland’s Business Academy and an event manager at HackerX, with over 10 years of experience as a software developer and 4 years as an educator. She specializes in areas like Business Development, Innovation, Project Management, Fullstack development, and IT Security, and stands out as a ‘Mentor of The Year’ winner from Microsoft Azure Heroes and a finalist for the Nordic Women in Tech awards twice.

Motivation

I like helping a mentee to achieving his/her potentials.

Over 25 years of engineering experience.  Trained in mechanical engineering and specializing in energy. Former system developer in mainframe coding. Trained IT project manager. Experience and knowledge of several project models. Specialist and project management experience in systems management of IT production systems in the utility industry. Former energy planner and specialist in various IT simulation models for use in hydraulic analysis and dimensioning of supply networks. Extensive knowledge of data collection, reporting, and management information.

Ole’s personal strengths are his positive attitude, his good written and oral communication skills, his ability to listen, and his bright mood. He believes in discipline, cooperation, professional ability, commitment, and responsibility, that he can learn something new every day and that knowledge is something a mentor/mentee pair will share.

Motivation

I have just finished my previous mentoring program and it has been educational, challenging, and rewarding to be able to pass on advice and information about how the job market shapes you as an engineer, including how your professionalism is shaped, how you use it in your daily work and what is good work really? I’d like to try that again.

After 15 years as a researcher and teacher at DTU, I worked 7 years in a consultancy firm, whereafter I made the move to industry. It has been a great journey where I have always followed my heart. On my path, I managed to pick up a lot of different skills that made it possible for me to get my dream job.

As Global Food Safety Microbiologist, I am the Special Matter Expert, SME, on microbiology in the company and a go-to person on all microbiological matters in the company. I am responsible for harmonizing and updating our internal methods and for introducing new technologies. I also work closely with all sites on the optimal hygienic design of existing and new production lines, validation, and hygiene monitoring. It gives me great joy to go to our sites, work with the local staff and experience the local culture.

In my early career, I managed a large research group (at DTU), but I decided to follow the specialist path and leave people management, simply because it was a better fit for me.

Motivation

I would love to be able to help a young person to make bold, meaningful, and potentially life-changing decisions for the future, instead of just following the beaten path. I want to help people with different backgrounds maneuver in the Danish job market. Personally I am interested in building a network and learning about different cultures.

Copenhagen Business School (CBS) – HD, Economy and Marketing

Technical University of Denmark (DTU) – B.Eng. Chemistry

Peter has more than 10 years of experience in tobacco, where he has been working mainly with product development. Peter is a results-driven engineer with marketing experience and good sales understanding, and he thrives in the cross-functional area bridging engineering and sales & marketing where the focus is placed both on the technical aspect and the commercial side. Peter embraces challenging tasks like translating technical aspects into consumer relevant information and has been facilitating the collaboration between product development and marketing, being in contact with key external and internal stakeholders such as production and suppliers.

MOTIVATION

Peter wants to become a mentor because he would like to pass on some of his experience to the younger generation. He is looking for an open-minded mentee who doesn’t restrict themselves to one path after graduation and who is ambitious.

I have +20 years experience with innovation in the process industry. I have a background as a chemical engineer with a Ph.D. in combustion science and spend the first 15 years of my career working with combustion related development projects at the university, in the power industry and at Rockwool International. Later I entered into product development and during this period I acquired a Master in Leadership and Innovation in Complex Systems from CBS. I am presently working as a Service Product Development Manager at GEA Group developing services around GEA’s products and processes. This is a customer focused development process where the customer needs is always in focus – as it should be but too often focus revolves around the skills and insights of the developers.
I work in an international setting where cross cultural and cross competence collaboration is the name of the game and one of the main reasons why I still love my job after nearly 25 years as an active innovator.
I have also been engaged in a few start up companies in an advisory board position.

Motivation

I enjoy engaging with young and ambitious people who have dreams and aspirations but not yet the full picture of the world. If I can provide my knowledge and experience – both successes and failures from my long career – to prepare them for a more rapid development in their development I would be very happy.

Technical University of Denmark (DTU) – M.Sc., Electrical and Electronics Engineering

Peter has 20+ years of experience in running privately-owned companies, doing consultancy work and management. His work has revolved around electronic engineering, signal processing, and embedded design. He is especially focused on the development process, starting from an idea and getting it all the way to the market. During his career, Peter has combined his technical know-how with his ability to consult and drive through projects.

MOTIVATION

Peter’s professional job is to help companies – including startups and individuals. He would not be surprised if he could add a little value to younger candidates or students – either by just listening or putting his personal observations forward.

I am a retired engineer with more than 34 years of experience in the field of Civil Engineering. My primary focus has been on transportation sectors, specifically the airport and railway sectors. I have held positions as a design engineer, technical coordinator, and project manager. I have been involver in many disciplines like trackway, catenary, signalling. I have a Merkonom and Diplomuddannelse from a business school in Denmark, providing me with an economic understanding of the engineering business.

Motivation

I am 62 year old – still going strong and believe that young fellow could get some advantage of my life experience.

I have a broad experience within the energy and power sector. I have primarily worked with leadership, management, business transformation, and complex projects within the generation of electricity and heat, power transmission, and electrical distribution. Furthermore, I have dealt with research, development, innovation, and energy planning, as well as having been fortunate to get to know parts of the railway industry, as for some time being responsible for DSB’s part of the Signaling Programme.

Motivation

I have helped young colleagues achieve a position or given advice to them, which provides me with positive feedback/motivation.

I have 18+ years of experience in software engineering with large multi-national companies like Siemens, Microsoft and Motorola as well as startup startup and scale-up’s like Issuu (issuu.com) Airtame (airtame.com) and remote work Basho Technologies (Stewards for RIAK NoSQL).

At present I work as a Senior Principal Enginee with Alertlogic by Fortra an MDR platform providing security as a service and am the Technical Lead for a team 6-8 engineers developing core Infrastructure, where we do large scale data processing in near real time.

If you feel that you can benefit from interacting with a software engineer with deep technical experience and experience of applying computer science and engineering fundamentals to solve real world problems then consider me.

Motivation

I graduated from DTU in 2006 from IMM with (http://www2.imm.dtu.dk/pubdb/edoc/imm4856.pdf) and have always been interested in learning and mentoring to move the field of software development and engineering forward. With my experience architecting, designing, building and operating software that operates at scale I have some insights and opinions on the knowledge and skills that are essential to succeed and deliver software working regular hours. Further it is my firm belief that as engineers and creative thinkers we can be at least 2-5 times more productive with the right guidance – that is the path I would like to set you on.

I have 15 years of experience with offshore wind farm development and wind turbine technology due diligence including supplier qualification. Some years of wind turbine design and development. A long track within project and program management leading large scale Projects and a strong flair for offshore wind farm development and renewable energy. I am currently a Project Development Director at Offshore Wind.

Motivation

I want to develop my skills as a motivator and I already provide some informal mentoring. Since I am a passionate Project leader within my field I would like to draw on my experience and groom aspiring students having the same ambitions.

I have 20+ years of industry experience primarily within the healthcare and medical device industry. I have worked primarily with scale-ups in my full time job and have mentored start-ups in my spare time – in Denmark and abroad. My career has revolved engineering high-quality medical device solution mostly as R&D member or leader. I am specifically focusing on systems engineering, design control, regulations and product releases.

In addition to product engineering, I enjoy process standardization and optimization. Building cross functional distributed teams with diverse backgrounds. Architecture at all levels – system, solution and enterprise.

Motivation

I like solving challenges together in a team. I also mentor individuals and take joy in being part of their journey and adding a bit of new perspective to them. I of course learn by participating.

What I look for in a mentee is persistence, learning mindset, trust and transparency

I have 4 years of experience within the pharmaceutical industry from large and medium size companies in Copenhagen area. My area of expertise is project management working with international teams placed in different sites around the world. I have handled a wide variety of projects in Quality, Supply Chain, Manufacturing and Development areas. My main focus is to drive the teams and engage with my stakeholders to ensure the availability of high-quality products to our patients around the world.

Motivation

I want to develop my mentoring skills and leadership while I can help a student by sharing my journey and my learnings. I would like to provide the guidance that I would have liked to have when I graduated. Furthermore, it is always very nice to talk with young and energetic people that is about to start a career and like to share their ambitions. I prefer helping a mentee with ambition of going into a generalist position.

I have 10 years of experience within the automotive industry from large companies, – in Germany and abroad. My career has revolved around ensuring that safe, sustainable, effective and high-quality powertrain and power solutions become available to users worldwide in collaboration with manufacturing, R&D and different stakeholders. I am focusing currently on green hydrogen production as a Senior Project Lead Electrolysis at Bosch.

Motivation

I want to be a mentor in order to help students by sharing my experiences I gained in leading teams & projects – with both successes and failures. Moreover, I want to get input from a different point of view. I therefore prefer students, with a pro-active/self-driven approach to new challenges and discussions on how to overcome them.

I have 10 years of experience with medical devices, working with both American and Danish companies.
Since I started in the medical device industry, I have focused a lot on evidence, product safety and performance both pre- and post market.
I have worked with both regulatory affairs, marketing and scientific affairs interacting with both internal and external stakeholders. I have solid knowledge within data collection, data sources and data analysis but also with medical writing. At the moment my focus is post-market surveillance and how to ensure that products released to the market are preforming as intended and act on it, if not.
As part of my job I also attend network groups and panels at conferences, to be up to date with new knowledge and trends in the industry but also to share my experience.

Motivation

I have always been motivated by motivating others and sharing my experience and knowledge. I want to show students that there is not always an obvious route in your work life and that you are not locked with at specific type of job due to your education – there are so many different ways into the medical device world and so many different people with different backgrounds. I prefer helping a mentee that have interest in the Medical Devices and Healthcare.

Industrial engineer specialized in mechanics and energy technologies. I am employed at MAN Energy Solutions in the Production Support department for the 2-Stroke Engine division. In my role, I focus on reducing the environmental impact and digitalize the processes required to build our ship engines.

Motivation

I have previously been a mentee in a similar program, which was very helpful in launching my career. Now, I would like to offer my support from the other side.

I believe this is an experience that can help both, mentee and mentor, to grow and develop new skills. I would like to support someone who is highly motivated and pro-active.

I have 15 years of experience with Maersk in China and CPH, rotating in different positions including customer service, process and control, marine operations, product management, vessel network design and recently 3 years in Group Internal Audit focusing on business operational activities/ESG and their internal control (risk based) frameworks. I have insights from different angels into the business.

Motivation

I want to offer my work experience to students so they can get insights to a company but also learn personal development experience. I prefer to mentor Chinese speaking students as I was one of them so I know their background and challenges better.

I am Sandeep Jauhari, currently, working with Vattenfall as an Asset Integrity Engineer focusing on the overall condition of the windfarm so as to create visibility and develop efficient maintenance strategies for the various components.

I have studied Master’s of Electrical Engineering at the Technical University of Denmark with a specialization in electric energy systems. I hold a Bachelors’s degree in Electrical & Electronics Engineering from a university in India.

My work experience is in the field of erection, commissioning & maintenance of HV/LV components on onshore & offshore substations with Stambh Power Systems & Ørsted for about 1.5 years where I have delivered domestic & international projects in an international work environment.

I want to be a part of this mentor program because this platform provides me with an opportunity where I can help students by sharing my personal experiences (success & failure) that I have faced in DTU as a master’s student. This program will also help me a lot by developing my personal skills and an occasion to interact with new people. I would like to mentor someone who’s new to DTU and looking forward to start his/her career in Denmark within the same field.

Sanne has 9+ years of experience as both specialist and leader, and has developed a wide range of knowledge in drainage technology. This applies to all phases in wastewater and rainwater design from the idea phase to commissioning. She has also gained extensive knowledge in detailed design and 3D BIM modeling of sewer systems, which she uses daily in her work, and knows what it’s like to work at a large corporation such as COWI, experience which she can share. Sanne is currently working as a Project Manager/Specialist at MOE.

Motivation

Sanne has always been happy to help others, and share her knowledge to those who want it. Through her work, she has helped some of the newly-graduated engineers at COWI, and it brings her joy to see them grow. Therefore, Sanne seeks a mentee who is knowledge-hungry and wants her help to find their path.

Technical University of Denmark (DTU) – B.Eng. IT Engineer

Sanne has 14+ years of experience in IT strategy, business development and execution. The focus in her career is on creating value in the intersection of technology and business, where people, processes and innovation are in the center. She is currently driving this in her role as head of IT at IFU, and has previously held other IT leadership, program management and business development positions in companies such as Rambøll, KMD and MT Højgaard, where she has been responsible for IT delivery projects, strategy and organizational tasks and restructuring.

MOTIVATION

Sanne wants to give others a helping hand. Especially as a female engineer and leader, she would like to provide a role model template for other women and perhaps help a few more realize that IT specifically is an extremely creative and rewarding field, and that management is interesting and attainable as an engineer.

Satbinder S. Ram is a Verification UVM Expert with over 20 years of experience in the ASIC and FPGA design industry. He specializes in Design Control, Usability, and Project Management.

Motivation

I want to develop personal leadership and be better to motivate others. I would like to share my story and what it takes to succeed and how to learn from your failures.

I have 10+ years of experience in mobile application development, especially native iOS. I have been part of significant projects in different companies, and now I am working at Nemlig.com to deliver high-end solutions to our customers. Not only native but also cross-platforming experience for mobile apps is something I would love to help/mentor other candidates for this field.

Motivation

It has been always an issue to find a good and passionate candidate for nearly all the projects I worked with and I want to help possible candidates to mentor if they are willing to be a mobile application developer.

As an IT-engineer from DTU I have 10 years of experience in the IT infrastructure within Microsoft technology, with a focus ranging from planning, design, implement to maintenance and operation of IT-systems.
I am specifically focusing on Microsoft Cloud at the moment.

Motivation

I want to help a student by sharing my story – with both successes and failures.
I want to develop my personal and would love to get a bigger network among young, talented engineering students

Simon has 5+ years of experience with consulting and data science. With a background in advanced statistics and modeling, he has a thorough insight of how machine learning algorithms operate. Through years of working with big data, he enjoys optimizing by transforming, manipulating and visualizing data. Working in IT consultancy for years – in PwC, CGI and now Danske Bank – has taught Simon a wide range of programming languages and given him hands-on experience with developing advanced analytics solutions and deploying them into production. Working in this ever-changing environment of data science has taught Simon to embrace learning-by-doing and satisfy his urge to learn new technologies. He loves to enrich the traditional business intelligence landscape with AI, extracting the next level of business insights into your data.

MOTIVATION

Simon would love to help a student from a familiar background, preparing for what happens after graduation. Hopefully, his experiences, both good and bad ones, are able to help a mentee one step closer to finding out what they are passionate about. Personally, Simon also sees the mentorship as a chance for him to enhance his own motivational and leadership skills, as well as a great opportunity to stay in touch with the student environment and hear their thoughts on what the future will bring. Simon would prefer to mentor a student related to his own field, within ambitions of becoming a generalist.

I am a chemical engineer specialized in food technology.
During my academic years, I got exposed to different working regimes and various cultures. More specifically, I studied in Greece (bachelor), Germany (internship), France (bachelor dissertation), Denmark (Master), and Belgium (Master internship). When the time to work came, I decided to start my career in the UK before moving to Belgium and ultimately return to my domicile in Greece.
From 2011 until the end of 2020, I met numerous people, had to collaborate with a great number of professionals, and got lucky to work at very organized and state-of-the-art laboratories and R&D centers.

My working experience is in Food technology, Quality, and Scaling up processes from lab scales to pilot and plant trials.
I have worked in the R&D of Mondelez for almost 3 years in the areas of Deep Discovery and Deployment where i acquired a wide span of knowledge and skills, from how to design an experiment, to how to execute your own industrial-scale trials.
At the moment, I am working as a Production manager at ION S.A.
Before moving back to Athens, I worked for 1.5 year in Belgium, in a totally different field, in project management. I was the project manager of 16 members consortium for a Horizon2020 EU-funded project.

Motivation

Since it has never been easy for anyone to achieve their dreams and to become who they really want to be, I would like to support and assist the mentee with my personal experience in setting the right targets and how to reach the set goals.
I am not an expert, but I have been involved in many different projects, situations, and with many people, hence I can see things a bit objective and clear in comparison with someone who has just started his career.

Research scientist with 6 years of experience in the private sector and specifically within the development of products targeting plant health & lactic acid bacteria for cheese and fresh dairy. Specialized in Microbial physiology and fermentation/process development from few mL to industrial scale. Also, I have a few years of experience as a Project manager. Always interested in fresh ideas and new technologies.

Motivation
I wish to improve my ability to collaborate with individuals of different nationalities and academic or technical backgrounds. My main motivation is to share my experiences, journey of knowledge and most importantly insecurities and failures. I believe that young people should hear that feeling vulnerable and out of your comfort zone is ok and that is actually the time when one learns the most. My moto is “try, fail, reflect, develop”. I believe that my expertise would benefit mostly a mentee that is interested into perusing a researcher career (private or academic sector), but i am open to any challenges :).

Electrical & IT engineer with a solid background in industrial automation. Providing solutions within all project phases of electrical automation, IT, and network establishment. Experienced in pharmaceutical GMP environments in Denmark and abroad.

I am currently working as a Project Manager on global implementation of a production optimization solution for Rockwool A/S

Motivation

As an old mentee myself, the mentoring program is a natural way to give back. Being a consultant has given me the opportunity to work with various clients in the Nordics and get familiar with different organisational cultures.

With this experience, I intend to help a new graduate oriented in the Danish market. What I am looking for in a mentee, is a drive for professional growth & curiosity into the working practices.

I have 35 year of experience in Danish and international consulting companies. Main focus has been on R&D, innovation and services related to maritime, offshore and software systems. Engaged in setting up subsidiaries in Asia (Singapore and China). Presently I mentor young professionals and I assist startups (primarily with contracting, financing and organization) on a volunteer basis.

Motivation

I enjoy working with startups and young professionals due to their energy and enthusiasm. Moreover, it is a pleasure for me to try and direct talented student in the “right” professional direction, and make deliberate career decisions. In short, it is the possibility of passing on the experience I have gained after many years in international business that drives me.

I thrive with building up new business – new sales. Having more than 25 years of broad IT-, consultative sales- and management experience along with strong customer relations in the business community, I have successfully increased businesses by understanding customer needs to tailor the best solutions for them. I am used to working cross border in international companies with customers and colleagues inside as well as outside Denmark. Having a Master of Science in electronic engineering makes me understand customers’ sometimes more technical challenges.

Motivation

I have been a mentor for some years for young engineers from DTU, primarily in their first jobs, facing different challenges/considerations:
– “Have I chosen the right career path?”
– “How do I get to my dream position from where I am now?”
– “My manager/colleague is difficult to understand/work with. Why is that/what to do?”

And for mentees looking for their first job:
– “How do I find the right company/the right position for me?”
– “How do I write a successful CV and application for a specific role?”

It is fulfilling for me when my many years of professional experience can be of value for younger people.

I have experience from industry, academia and consulting and bring an international vita. My main professional focus lies on climate-related topics; working either with hard-to-abate sectors to decarbonize them, or with the CleanTeach industry to help scale.

Motivation

I have received much great mentorship throughout my career and would not have achieved all I did without it. I would like to give back and help some of the bright minds to find their own path.

I have 9 years of experience in Biotech and Pharma industry – spanning from startups, academia, biotech and larger pharmaceutical companies in Denmark and USA.
My background started with Organic Chemistry in my BSc, from which I transitioned in Pharmaceutical engineering for my MSc and Molecular biology during my industrial PhD.
In the last 6 years I have been involved in Analytical Development and Quality Control under a GMP environment. In these roles I have had experience with bringing therapeutics from early development to commercial approval, following the life cycle of the clinical and commercial activities of multiple projects.
My competencies are within Biotech and Pharma, regarding CMC, Regulatory authority interactions and stakeholder management.

Motivation

I have been part of the Copenhagen Career program in 2012 as a mentee, where I could see the value of insightful guidance. Preferably, I would seek for a mentee with a solid scientific background, strong focus to the pharma industry with a flair for method development or a QC mindset. On a personal level, I would resonate with a student having good communication skills and a strong career drive.

I have 3+ years of experience within the pharmaceutical industry. Before that I worked within medical devices. My career has revolved highly around patient safety by ensuring and maintaining validated high quality IT solutions used in business critical processes. I collaborate with a bunch of different professions from different countries on a day-to-day basis. I understand the importance of good stakeholder management skills and thrive in a challenging environment. Lately, I have had the opportunity to take on more project management related tasks.

Motivation

I missed this possibility when I was a student at DTU. I think this mentor/mentee relationship can benefit both highly in regards to broadening the professional networks and skills. I want to keep learning and developing myself. I want to help the best way I can. I think it is important to share both successes and failures as both can teach us something and help us grow. I would love to help a mentee with their start to the working life as well as setting ambitions for the future. What do you want to do ? How can I help you get there?

I graduated with a MSc. in Electrical Engineering in 2019, where my degree focused on advanced control theory methodologies, both in a theoretical and practical sense. In 2023 I finished my PhD within maritime robotics, where I worked on the collision and grounding avoidance system for an autonomous ferry. Currently I’m working as a control engineer at the R&D department at EMRI A/S, where I have the opportunity to delve deep into innovative product development. During my time as an academic I had the opportunity to take part in multiple collaborations between the university and industrial partners. Furthermore, I supervised numerous master students throughout my time as a PhD. Now at EMRI, the company also strives to maintain a close relationship with the universities, in order to provide an entryway into the Danish maritime sector for prospective students.

Motivation

I’m very interested in broadening my network, whilst also seizing this opportunity to remain on beat with happenings of current students and soon-to-be graduates. I look forward to help the mentee grow, whilst also growing as a mentor.

Thomas has many years of experience as an executive with a passion for strategy and business development, and he has worked at large corporations such as Novozymes, Novo Nordisk and Grundfos. Thomas has broad functional experience, including R&D, production, marketing and sales, and international experience having worked in China and the United States. He has a track record of leading and improving the performance of industrial businesses, and effectively applying analytical and strategic skills to solve complex business challenges, for instance leading corporate strategy project at Grundfos with McKinsey. Currently, Thomas is working as an independent advisor, board member and consultant, and has additional experience as an external teacher at Copenhagen Business School and supervisor at the Executive MBA programme at DTU.

Motivation

Thomas would like to share his experience and help talented mentees with ambitions of moving into managerial and business roles in their careers.

Thomas is a seasoned leader in front-end innovation and product development with a passion for blending technology and human empathy. Harnessing a robust engineering foundation, he spearheads projects to deliver delightful user experiences. His expertise extends across multiple industries, leading cross-functional teams in strategic innovation, product development, and portfolio strategy. With hands-on work in UI/UX, software features, services, and physical products, he currently serves as Senior Project Manager for early stage product development at Ferrosan Medical Devices A/S.

Motivation

Having accumulated 25 years of experience in innovation and product development, I have gained valuable insights and knowledge throughout my career.
I would like the opportunity to give back, guide aspiring professionals, and contribute to their success.
I would also hope to get a fresh perspective on my own career and work by engaging with a person with a new perspective.

A mentee who is open to feedback, willing to listen, and eager to learn from both successes and challenges is ideal. Someone who will push back and help me learn also. I moved into leadership and project management very early in my career and could help someone considering a similar move.

20+ years of experience as project engineer and consultant, related to energy, environment and wastewater, and 12 years as operation manager of advanced pocess plants and sewer systems handling and producing biogas, biomass and wastewater in the Danish wastewater sector. Currently employed as Energy and Environmental Partner in the pharmaceutical Industry.

Motivation

Seeks to develop leadership and coaching competences and at the same time help a young student of engineering on his/her path to become a generalist, leader or specialist.

Thomas Sandal is an “Entrepreneur in Residence” at BiOrigin and serves as the “Chief Technology Officer” at PokeAcell. With more than 25 years of international experience in the biopharmaceutical industry, he specializes in CMC project management, process development, and regulatory assurance.

Motivation

I have always believed that networking is key for your development and carrier. None of my jobs the last 15 years were ever posted. Sharing some of my experiences during a long carrier from being a young scientist to senior leadership roles is both expanding my own network and insight into what is important for the young students today and can hopefully serve as guidance and inspiration for next generation of young entrepreneurs.

I am an experienced leader in the IT industry and have over 20 years of successful track record from exciting and challenging leadership positions in IT. I am recognized as a hands-on leader, coach and mentor, a leader who sets a clear strategic direction and builds a learning and positive culture.
I have special competencies within:
• IT management, strategy, governance and execution with close “Stakeholder Management” and involvement
• Process implementation of Agile / SAFe, Lean and ITIL, IT Service Management
• Build delivery models using IT off-shoring, outsourcing and insourcing
• Management and execution of projects as well as management of steering groups
• Contract negotiation and conclusion as well as supplier and delivery management, both in the private and public sector.

I am currently a Transformation and Technology Director at Novo Nordisk

Motivation

My mission is to learn and develop myself throughout life – I want to be relevant to people around me and the job market until the day I choose to quit. Therefore, I want to share my experiences in return for a pertinent insight into the world around me – the best place to achieve that must be from young, ambitious engineers with the world at their feet. Also, I want to help future leaders by asking questions that can help them in their careers. Leadership is to be developed and trained – no one is born as a leader; it requires choices and opt-out.

My 10 year career spans through various company sizes, from large companies to very small startups, and across several verticals – consumer electronics, medical/health tech, smart cities, environmental and transportation, each with its own complexities and challenges. One common component across all these is the embedded software that defines and drives the businesses.

I love hardware and software – and everything in between. Embedded systems combine the best of both worlds, and it is a joy working right in the middle. My passion lies in developing firmware (embedded software), and I have a particular focus on design, architecture and implementation. I have also had the privilege of managing projects, which has also given me another perspective – one that requires focus on the bigger picture and the business. As such, I have learned (and continuously learning) to maintain a balance between focusing the tiniest details and the long term business objectives.

My motivation

Two of my greatest passions in life is technology and teaching. I’ve been a mentor since my early twenties and I’ve only gotten better. I was assigned a mentor and buddy at my first job – something that had a profound impact on how I developed as an engineer. My mentor helped me shape the way I the see world of software; helped me build the right attitude and mindset; taught me to do things right; taught me to be constructively critical of my own ideas, as well as the ideas of others; and perhaps even learn to take responsbility for my own work and do something I can be proud of.

This is something definitely worth giving back to the young minds entering this or any other field for that matter.
I am looking for a mentee who is open to expanding their worldview; one who takes responsibility for their own growth.

Tom has 30+ years of experience with IT and consulting industry. He is passionate about helping clients enable and improve their sales capabilities through IT enablement of the commercial processes and helping clients optimize their Costumer Engagement model. For the past many years, he has been working as a management consultant with the primary focus of realizing business benefits through IT. Many years in the IT consulting market hax given Tom a solid experience with the development and optimization of the major delivery processes in IT organizations, and he has been apart of a number of different companies such as Implement Consulting, PA Consulting, Oracle and more.

Motivation

Tom believes it is important to help new students and graduates to find their way into the labour market, and the help them realize that failure to follow a strict and planned career path does not matter in the long run – there are many ways to Rome. Tom would prefer helping a mentee with ambitions of going into the consulting industry – preferably within IT consulting.

Tommaso Vidali is a Structural and Façade Engineer at Ramboll, with more than 3.5 years of experience specializing in structural design across various materials such as glass, steel, aluminum, concrete, and timber. Before Ramboll, he served as a Teaching Assistant at the Technical University of Denmark, and as a Technical Assistant at Serpelloni Spa.

Motivation

I want to develop my mentorship skills and at the same time support young professional in the initial steps of their career. Something I missed at the beginning it was a person that helped me keep high he motivation, particularly when looking for a job and advice me on what is important or not. I would like to be that person for someone else.

I am a .NET/C# developer and systems designer. I have worked extensively using the .NET platform and have worked on projects developing client as well as web based solutions. I have strong Windows Forms and ASP.NET competencies, and have recently gained a solid understanding of the Windows Presentation Foundation from working with it for the past several years.

Throughout my career I have always enjoyed taking part in and also heading workshops, knowledge sharing sessions and try to communicate my knowledge to others.

Motivation

I love to share knowledge and have myself benefitted greatly from taking the advice of more experienced people throughout my career.

Personally, I think I will be able to grow my skills as a motivator and as someone who conveys knowledge.

I am open to any kind of mentee, but I might be most useful for someone who is considering working as a freelancer or starting their own business.

Torben Holritz Juhl is the CEO & Co-Founder of ParkZone A/S, with 19 years of experience in the facilities services industry. Experienced Director with a demonstrated history of working in the facilities services industry. Skilled in Negotiation, Operations Management, Sales, Business Development, and Facility Management (FM).

Motivation

I became self-employed 20 years ago and have been through several different periods, where both experience and theory have been applied. The combination of a lifelong focus on what my profile should contain and the everyday life that I have created, I would like to share with others. And through that, they may hopefully achieve more success than I have had and still have.

Recently joined Falck, where I am Global Head of Quality responsible for quality management and all activities within that area like; management system, audit management, business process management, non-conformity management, records management, management review and continuous improvement among others
3 years of experience in the automotive businesses within the catalysts industry, working as QHSE Manager and responsible for the Danish section with tie-ins to the global functions.
In total 18+ years of experience from the oil & gas industry working offshore and onshore in specialist or manager positions. 12+ years of onshore work as a QHSE (Quality, Health, Safety and Environment) professional in specialist or manager positions. Experience with leadership, management systems such as Quality, Health & Safety, Environment and risk management. I have profound knowledge in national and international standards relevant for the areas including legislation and the authorities that act in these areas. I have experience within Emergency Response management and security, as I have been part of Emergency Response teams. I have extensive experience being a Lead Auditor and Lead Investigator. I have extensive experience developing QHSE documentation for onshore and offshore drilling projects.
5 years of offshore work in DK, NO and UK on various types of drilling rigs as a Drilling Fluid Engineer, gaining extensive experience with a variety of drilling fluids within oil based mud (OBM), water based mud (WBM) and brines.

Motivation

I believe I can pass on my many years of experience and my competences to a young student to help motivate and grow a student into maturing and prepare the person to a relevant professional career.
At the same time it gives me an opportunity to learn some characteristic of the young generation, that could benefit me in my ongoing career path.

I have been designing chemical plants for the last 25 years. For the moment I am working in R&D developing equipment for Power to X, which is very interesting.
I am a mechanical specialist using the 3D program Inventor designing high pressure equipment according to a lot of codes, ASME and EN. In R&D we develop new interesting equipment using new production methods and I love it. I am taking care of our 3D plastic printers and all development is 3D printed first in plastic and a few parts later in metal.
In my department we have CFD, FEM and material specialists and have a good cooperation together.

Motivation

If I can motivate a student to go into the real mechanical industry, I will be happy. At Topsoe we have many possibilities. You will have the possibility to travel a lot to different producers or plant sites. You can design the newest equipment for power to X and helping the world to be a better place.

I have almost 20 years of experience from large Danish companies. I have travelled the world as a chemical engineer before I moved into project management and then lean. Now I support technical companies as an internal consultant. I can provide insight into the experience of both large state owned organisations and private global companies.

Motivation

I want to share my experiences and support a young woman in getting clarity about her path ahead. It does not matter, if the ambition is technical or in leadership. It is also perfect ok, if you are still figuring it out. I certainly did not know, when I finished DTU.

Chief technology officer and architect with a background in financial services technology. Strong leadership skills with a proven record of establishing and growing high-performance teams. Proven experience in strategic, enterprise development- and cloud transformation projects. Currently serving as Chief Technology Officer at Banking Circle – a next-generation provider of mission-critical infrastructure for cross-border payment processing, offering reduced complexity, time, and cost.

Motivation

I would like to take the learning experiences that I have had both professionally and personally during my career and apply them to young professionals who could perhaps use some perspective and self-confidence in what to select and what to focus on. I can both help mentees that themselves want to become leaders, but also more tech-oriented profiles that want some perspective on how to succeed in that role.

After a couple of years working (and failing) to begin a circular economy consulting career in Spain, I moved to Tanzania to work at a local NGO with simple technologies, where we have launched a small scale plastic recycling workshop with the aim of creating a market based solution to plastic pollution and raising environmental awareness.

I have been writting grant proposals, co-founded Njobme Innovation Academy (http://nia.or.tz/) where we unleash the potential of youth to transform local challenges into opportunities and facilitating the deployment of agile practices in our organisation.

Learning and exploring in a self-taught manner about self-organising, decentralisation, open source, commons and the crypto world since I left DTU.

Motivation

Since my last year at DTU I began to realise that life can be much more than what I had been told it is. I sometimes feel that I have somehow misused my time in the past: e.g. there are so many books I want to read and time seems not to be enough. I wish someone had inspired me when I was younger to explore and think beyond my immediate activities.
I am also participating in a number of initiatives mentees could participate: e.g. open source hardware design, social innovation academy, liberating structures.
I would also like to learn from the mentee: e.g. effective ways to organise myself and prioritise, sticking to goals, balancing work and “free time”

I am an expert in Bioinformatics and Data Science applications for 5+ years. I am an Alumnus of DTU since 2017 from where I graduated with MSc in Bioinformatics and Systems Biology! Since then I completed my PhD in EMBL (Germany) and worked for various companies as a Data Consultant and Research Scientist including startups (e.g. Blusense in Copenhagen, Denmark and Etcembly in Cambridge, UK) and well established biotech corporations (e.g. Evotec in Munich, Germany). Currently I am working as a Business Senior Consultant for AI and Data in Deloitte in Munich, Germany. Through my experiences and expert background I have helped companies in Europe to scale their Life Science-related business and make the most out of their produced data for either Biotech or Pharma applications.

Motivation

I participated myself as a mentee in one of DTU’s mentorship programmes back in 2017 and it was a fruitful experience which literally shaped my future steps. Therefore, I would like to gladly offer my gained knowledge over the years while having been in “the shoes” of the mentees and hence understanding their needs for business, market and science knowledge. From this experience I believe that both me and the mentee will expand our profile networks while exchanging knowledge and experiences about current state-of-art developments in the relevant fields but also for me personally it would be a great chance to develop my team management and motivational skillset!

Vasilis Vasou is a Senior Management Consultant with experience in advising clients within “Energy and Renewables” on global transformations, re-organizations, PMO, and business processes. He holds an MSc in Petroleum Engineering (DTU), a BSc in Civil and Environmental Engineering (University of Cyprus), and completed an Executive Education program at the University of California, Berkeley.

Motivation

Already from the early stages of my career I had great mentors that their guidance and advice helped me develop competences and navigate the complexities of working in large international companies in Denmark. Those learnings were invaluable, and I found myself wishing I had good mentors already from my studies so I can prepare myself better before even entering the workforce. I believe this mentoring program holds great potential and I’d love to be part of it and share my learnings and experiences with young students.

Throughout my career, the common thread has always been the drive to try new things and explore new possibilities while embracing the change and challenges that came along. I have worked in big international companies in engineering and project management roles and in smaller scale-ups as part of the leadership team and I have experienced the ups and downs of both worlds. Over the last period I’ve made the transition to management consulting focusing within the area of Energy and Renewables.

Technical University of Denmark (DTU) – M.Sc., Advanced and Applied Chemistry

Nanyang Technical University – M.Sc., Advanced and Applied Chemistry

Technical University of Denmark (DTU) – B.Eng., Chemistry

Vinca has 10+ years of experience in research, both at a Danish University and in the global industry. Her career has taken her on a rollercoaster ride, starting out as being a specialist in quantum chemistry, to transfer into a commercial role as a gas consultant, to be a strategic project management officer within a global gas company. In her role as head of project managers, she has traveled around the world to gain the newest know-how, working with key stakeholders in the group. Vinca is always focused on the task ahead of her, the important KPIs, and, most important, safety.

MOTIVATION

Vinca wants to share her know-how in the challenging transfer from being a student to starting a career. How to reach your goal and how to network both within a company but also outside one’s comfort zone. At the same time, Vinca also wants to further develop her leadership and mentoring skills. She wants to be a mentor for a student with curiosity and a great sense of asking “why?”.

I have been working as a technical consultant for almost 4 years in oil and gas industry customizing simulation solutions based on clients’ needs, as well as almost two years as an associate at BCG. I am equipped with strong problem-solving skills and abilities to collaborate in teams. Currently working as a manager at Novo Nordisk.

Motivation

I would like to help students who are interested in a future career path either as an engineer or a management consultant. I will be very happy to share my experiences on how to find out which career path to pursue, CV crafting, and interviews process.