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Research Projects

My work focuses on digital twin platforms, cyber-physical systems, collaborative simulation, and research software engineering. The common thread across these projects is turning models, simulation assets, runtime data, and operational workflows into deployable digital twin systems used by researchers and industrial partners. I either have worked on or currently working on the following funded projects.

Sustainable Water-based Cooling in Megacities (SWiM)

Role: Researcher and Architect for Digital Twin Platform
Period: January 2026 – December 2030
Link: project

  • Grundfos Foundation project with a total budget of 60 million DKK and four partners.
  • Develop digital twin platforms to support multi-paradigm modelling and simulation of district cooling systems with focus on Asian megacities.
  • Working with the Grundfos technical and sales team to define requirements for digital twins of district cooling case studies.

Secure Collaboration on top of the Digital Twin as a Service Platform

Role: Researcher and Developer
Period: December 2025 – December 2028
Link: project

  • Thomas B. Thriges Foundation project funded at 3 million DKK.
  • Co-developing mechanisms for secure collaboration and sharing of digital twin assets across organisational boundaries.
  • Applies zero-trust security principles to trustworthy digital twin platforms for emergency and defence applications.

CP-SENS: Cyber-Physical Sensing for Machinery and Structures

Role: Project Board Member, Software Architect, and Developer
Period: May 2023 – May 2027
Link: project

  • Danish Innovation Foundation project with a total budget of 19.3 million DKK and six project partners.
  • Software architect for digital twins in structural health monitoring applications, integrated into the digital twin platforms developed at Aarhus University.
  • Working directly with three research teams and three engineering companies on adoption of digital twins in real production and operational settings.
  • Research outcomes are applied to wind turbine blade testing at DTU Wind and Energy Systems.

DIGITbrain

Role: Architecture and Design Sub-group Member
Period: July 2020 – December 2023
Link: project

  • H2020 European Union Innovation Action with an overall budget of 8 million EUR and 36 partners.
  • Contributed to requirements analysis, architecture and design, and prototype demonstrations for composable manufacturing digital twins on multi-cloud platforms.
  • Supported three SME open-call projects using the platform in their Industry 4.0 transition.
  • Sole Aarhus University team member to participate in and fulfil the research goals of this project.

HUBCAP

Role: Architecture, Requirements, and Prototype Development
Period: January 2020 – December 2022
Link: project

  • H2020 European Union Innovation Action with an overall budget of 8 million EUR and 17 partners.
  • Worked on architecture requirements, distributed sandbox prototyping, and review of project deliverables for cloud-based model-driven engineering support for cyber-physical systems.
  • Created case study demonstrations for the platform.