Dora graduated as a Radiographer from Aarhus University Hospital in 1988. She began her career in the field of Interventional Radiology, continuing in one of the first fully digitalised departments in Denmark, where she was managing the PACS system until 1996.

In 1996 she took on a position in MR working with Neuroradiology, Oncology and Orthopaedic patients. In 2000 she moved to a position split between clinical and research MRI activities within the Orthopaedic and Oncology fields. In 2000 she began studies at St. Martin’s College, Lancaster, UK. She graduated with a Post Graduate Diploma in MRI in 2002. From 2002 onwards she changed into full time research at the Center of Functionally Integrative Neuroscience (CFIN), Aarhus University Hospital and Aarhus University, Denmark.

In the beginning of her MR career, Dora’s main focus was on scanning patients, volunteers, and animals using MR imaging and especially diffusion and perfusion. Together with her colleagues she was part of the process testing and running one of the first 3T magnets in Denmark used for both clinical and research purposes. At the center she was part of team performing acute MRI on Stroke patients. The study was a research project for two years. It was then implemented as a 24/7 offer to all acute Stroke patients in the region. In the implementation phase she had an important role in teaching and educating clinical colleagues in running an acute MRI Stroke setting.

She is now working with two 3T magnets at CFIN dedicated to brain research. Dora’s main research focus is now on fMRI, diffusion, perfusion, and spectroscopy in patients, healthy volunteers, and animals. She is collaborating with more than 100 brain researchers using the Imaging facilities at CFIN, which besides MRI also houses electro and magnetic encephalography (EEG and MEG) systems and transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS) equipment. She is involved in managing all new and on-going projects from conception to finalization.

The development of Dora’s work and responsibilities at CFIN made it necessary to begin an education in project management. She graduated with a Diploma in Public Management in 2011 from VIA University College, Aarhus, Denmark. There were two main focuses namely personal leadership and development and project management and planning. Dora has planned to start a Master of Science in 2015 improving her academically and research skills.

Dora has been appointed expert on several occasions for different boards at The Danish Evaluation Institute (EVA) under the Danish Ministry of Education. She has been a professional expert in processes evaluating the Radiographers education at Bachelor’s level at Danish Educational Institutions.

She has been invited speaker both at national and international meetings e.g. Scandinavian Philips MR user meeting and Siemens user meeting. Her main topics at these meetings are 3T, Stroke implementation, diffusion and perfusion.

She has for the last 8 years taught at both basic and advanced MRI courses at the Master of Science in Biomedical Engineering programme, Aarhus University, Denmark. In 2013 she joined a group of researchers teaching both Danish and Chinese Master students in Beijing, China at the Sino-Danish Center for Education and Research at a Master’s Programme in Neuroscience and Neuroimaging. Dora is still involved in the Programme and will be teaching in Beijing again next year.

Dora has been a member of SMRT since 2002 and has attended ten SMRT and ISMRM Annual Meetings and two ISMRM Workshop. She has helped organizing a SMRT Local Chapter Seminar. She has submitted abstracts to the SMRT and has been co-author on abstracts at the both at the SMRT and ISMRM Meetings. She has joined the SMRT Global Relations Committee. In 2013 she was appointed as a secretary at the Board of Danish Society for Medical Magnetic Resonance (DSMMR).

It is a great honour for Dora to be nominated as a candidate for the SMRT Policy Board. She hopes to be able to use her wide network within the MR societies, both internationally and in Denmark, to contribute to expand and improve the knowledge of SMRT, especially in Europe, and thereby increase the number of members of SMRT. She is dedicated to participate in the work of the Policy Board and of relevant Committees.