I am a Full Professor and Deputy Head of Department for Research at Department of Computer Science, University of Copenhagen. I also head the Copenhagen Natural Language Understanding research group, and co-lead the Danish Pioneer Centre for Artificial Intelligence. My main research interests are fair and accountable NLP, including challenges such as explainability, factuality and bias detection. Prior to starting a faculty position, I was a postdoctoral researcher in the UCL Machine Reading group, and I hold a PhD from the University of Sheffield. In October 2022, I became Denmark’s youngest ever female full professor. I currently hold a prestigious ERC Starting Grant on 'Explainable and Robust Automatic Fact Checking'. My research has been recognised by a Karen Spärck Jones Award, as well as a Hartmann Diploma Prize. I am a member of the Royal Danish Academy of Sciences and Letters.
For more details, see my publications and CV. More information on how to join us in Copenhagen can be found here.
News
- April 2026: I'm very excited to start a new role as Deputy Head of Department for Research at the Department of Computer Science, University of Copenhagen, from May 2026 onwards. I'll be fulfilling this role alongside my existing position as a professor and research group leader.
- April 2026: 6 papers to be presented at ACL 2026, on topics including LLMs' context utilisation and explainable fact checking.
- November 2025: I am recruiting a PhD student and postdoc for a new project on Human-Centered Explainable Retrieval-Augmented LLMs funded by Independent Research Foundation Denmark starting in autumn 2026. The application deadline is 1 February 2026.
- November 2025: I became the Vice Chair for UCPH AI, a new strategic cross-faculty initiative to coordinate the University’s AI research, education, and innovation activities.
- August 2025: 7 papers to be presented at EMNLP 2025, on topics including explainable AI and social NLP.
- May 2025: We are organising a pre-ACL workshop in Copenhagen on 26 July, supported by DDSA and the Pioneer Centre for AI. Sign up here.
- May 2025: Our group will be presenting 3 papers at ACL 2025 -- 2 ACL main papers, on fact checking and retrieval-augmented generation, as well as a CL survey paper on cross-cultural NLP.
- April 2025: I'm extremely grateful to the British Computing Society and Bloomberg for honouring me with the Karen Spärck Jones Award at ECIR 2025, which is awarded talented researchers who have endeavoured to advance our understanding of Natural Language Processing or Information Retrieval with significant experimental contributions.
- April 2024: We are looking to recruit a PhD student on on Interpretable Natural Language Processing, to be supervised by Pepa Atanasova and myself. The application deadline is 15 May 2025. [More details and application link]
- January 2025: 4 papers accepted to NAACL 2025, on topics including feature attribution and measuring cultural values.
- September 2024: 5 papers to be presented at EMNLP 2024, on topics including benchmarking LLMs for fairness and factuality and probing them for knowledge conflicts.
- July 2024: I am visiting the Kim Jaechul Graduate School of AI at the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST AI) this summer.
- June 2024: I am honoured to have been elected to become a member of the Royal Danish Academy of Sciences and Letters.
- May 2024: 4 papers accepted to ACL 2024! We present new findings within explainability, language modelling, as well as detecting distortions in scientific writing.
- March 2024: Honoured to announce that our paper Semantic Sensitivities and Inconsistent Predictions: Measuring the Fragility of NLI Models has received an outstanding paper award at EACL 2024!