Jakob brings more than a decade of experience at the intersection of research strategy, funding compliance and inclusive leadership.

• Research-management pedigree. Eight years inside Danish and European universities: five in pre-award support for the social sciences and humanities, followed by three driving internationalisation and talent-development initiatives. He was among the first cohort to earn EARMA’s Certified Research Manager credential, served on the DARMA board and regularly speaks at EARMA and INORMS conferences.

• Sector-specific foresight. Jakob tracks the evolving policy and funding landscape in life-science, green-transition and dual-use/defence research, translating their inclusion and accessibility requirements into actionable blueprints. This groundwork equips new consortia to anticipate compliance hurdles and seize opportunities before the first proposal is even drafted. Having steered proposal optimisation, audit and leadership training, Jakob understands the regulatory and cultural pressures your consortia face.

• Inclusive-research specialist. His work translates the funders and EU policy expectations on diversity, equity and accessibility into pragmatic action plans that boost competitiveness and public trust.

• Human perspective. An openly gay Dane who has lived and worked in France, Belgium and Egypt, Jakob leverages personal experience of cross-cultural collaboration to help clients build research that is “by all and for all.”

• Academic grounding. MA in Comparative Religion & Rhetoric—providing the analytical toolkit to unpack culture, communication and power dynamics in global research teams.

When he is not training future PIs or advising funding bodies, you’ll find him in a small town outside Aarhus, Denmark with his husband, two dogs and an ever-growing pile of podcast microphones.