Career
After completing her PhD,Frei was employed as a post-doctoral researcher at the Centre for Textile Research. From 2013,she was a project partner in the ERC-funded project The Rise led by Kristian Kristiansen. [5] In 2011,Frei received the "For Women in Science Fellowship Award",awarded by L'Oréal Denmark,UNESCO and The Royal Danish Academy of Sciences and Letters. [6] In 2014,she became a senior researcher at the National Museum of Denmark,and she was appointed a professor in archaeometry at the museum in 2016. She is the first woman to be appointed a professor by the National Museum and the first female professor of archaeometry in Denmark. [7] [8]
Recent work has investigated the mobility of Bronze Age women from Oak Coffin burials at Egtved [9] and Skydstrup [10] in Denmark and changing patterns of mobility over the course of the Southern Scandinavian Neolithic and Bronze Age. [11] She has also worked on other regions and periods,including Viking migrants to Iceland [12] and the deceased warriors from the Bronze Age battlefield at Tollense. [13] In 2017,her research into the Skydstrup woman was recognised with a Shanghai Archaeology Forum research award. [14] Frei was also awarded the Dansk Magisterforening's research award in 2017. [15]
Frei is a life member of the Royal Danish Academy of Sciences and Letters. [16]
Frei's 2018 popular book Egtvedpigens rejse was a Danish best seller. It compares the journeys of the Bronze Age Egtved Girl with Frei's own travels from Argentina to Spain to Denmark. [17]
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