Being busy in BioBusiness

I’ve been quite busy the past couple of weeks, and now I find that I only have 46 days left of my thesis! I’m head of an organization which hosted an exhibition at Rådhuspladsen in Copenhagen on the 19th – 21st of November, and since I’m the managing director, I’ve been handling budgets, preparing press [...]

Going abroad vs. staying home.

Being at Novozymes in Denmark, quite close to where I live, close to DTU and to my friends, means that the work in the company simply got integrated as part of my normal life right away. Compared to if you go abroad where you don’t know anyone, and have to build an entirely new life, [...]

The first real encounter with manure and some nice colleagues

So came the time when I had to start actually working with the manure. I was quite excited to see how it would be to work with – simple things such as: What is the density of it, and thereby how large volumes will I have to work with? What is the pH? How do [...]

What am I doing working with manure?!?!?

After writing an initial project description and having had a couple of meetings with Hanne Høst, the science manager who was going to be my supervisor on the research project, my work at Novozymes went underway.
I was going to work with pig manure within the biogas industry, and as the day of beginning approached [...]

Do I really get my own office?

As a student I am not used to having my own office, let alone having a lab almost just for me and my research! This was however what I experienced when I started my project, and I can’t tell you how excited I got when it turned out that I could have my own desk [...]

Getting started at Novozymes

Hi everyone, and welcome to my blog.
I am a master student at Novozymes in Denmark, Bagsværd, studying at Technical University of Denmark (DTU). I actually started working on my thesis three months ago, but since I haven’t had the opportunity of blogging until now, I figured that I’d take you with me, back to where [...]