You may never have heard of Sune Lehmann, but most likely you have heard of his research, as it often makes big headlines - both at home and abroad.
Such as when, towards the end of 2023, he and other Danish and international research colleagues published a new AI algorithm that can predict the events in a person's life and estimate the probable time of death.
Or during the pandemic, when Sune Lehmann was part of the large award-winning Danish research team HOPE, which was able to deduce how different lockdown measures would affect the spread of infection, done through analyses of citizens' behaviour.
Or when in 2019, together with international colleagues, he was able to demonstrate that our collective attention worldwide is decreasing in step with the rapidly accelerating increase in news, agendas, and trending hashtags.
So how does Sune Lehmann time and again end up behind some of the most eye-cathing discoveries that end up making headlines?
"Making headlines was never my goal. My focus is to write research articles that can measure up to the best in the world. As a young researcher, I was trained to produce work of the very highest quality, and that is still my goal. What I want is to be able to step into any top university in the world and be respected as a person who does some great work," says Sune Lehmann.
