I saw your wobbly book stacks in your office. Are you packing?
– Absolutely, but fortunately, over the years, my office has been moved around between different houses and premises eight times, which means that it has been cleaned out many times.
How does it feel to move on and get to roam greener pastures?
– Had this question come up two years ago, it would have felt strange, but today it just feels good.
What didn´t you have time to do while you were working that you absolutely must do now?
– Try to be a student again, i.e. study... 50 years ago I was an exchange student in Germany for a year and now I plan to activate my old German.
What is the absolutely first thing you´ll do when you check out of Medfak for the last time?
– Open a bottle of champagne and toast to almost 30 years of challenging, stimulating, developing, pleasant and fun years together with fantastic people at Lund University.
Other future plans?
– I´m planning to get involved as a volunteer in some kind of youth charity work.
When and why did you choose your profession?
– I chose between the professions of doctor and veterinarian and concluded that both educations/professions contained the subject areas I was interested in. My background, I grew up on a farm, with horses and riding, may have contributed to it simply becoming the veterinary profession.
How did you end up at Medfak?
– After just over ten years in research and industry, I sought new challenges and looked towards Lund University. At this time I met the right person at the right time, to whom I expressed my interest in the veterinarian's work at LU. This meeting started a process that led to me being hired as a veterinarian at LU in 1994.
What has been the best part of your job?
– A really important and stimulating challenge has been to combine the work with the development and implementation of 3R in the business and at the same time, based on current regulations and permits, to function as a solution-oriented support for LU's important medical, biomedical and ecological research. Being a cog in the great work of developing and establishing LU's current structure for handling laboratory animal issues with a now built-in mechanism to stimulate development in line with the 3R principle.