New employee: Mads Kock Pedersen, PhD Student

Why did you choose to work at the Department of Business Development and Technology?
BTECH has a strong interdisciplinary profile and close collaboration with both large and small companies. This appealed to me, as I have a background in physics, but I now work with organisations and problem-solving. I also saw an opportunity to be able to take the abstract ideas that I work with and bring them closer to an applied context during my PhD.

What is your area of ​​work?
In my PhD, I am going to work on how problem-solving differs between groups and individuals, and under what conditions one approach may be advantageous over the other. For that, I have developed an experiment in the form of a game where the player has to find the best solution to an abstract problem.

What is your background?
In recent years, I have worked as a Data Scientist at the Center for Hybrid Intelligence at Aarhus University. At the centre, I worked on how research questions could be changed into games in order for us to involve the general population to help us solve them. For example, I worked on how we could use games to measure cognitive abilities.

Please tell us a bit about yourself, your family and your leisure activities
I live together with my girlfriend in the Aarhus suburb, Tilst. We met in Kolding where we both worked as swimming instructors, and we have been together since high school. When I am not working, I have several different interests that range widely from reading nerdy sci-fi, or swimming, to baking more or less successful cakes.