Ida E. H. Madsen is a Senior Researcher in psychosocial working conditions at the Danish National Research Centre for the Working Environment, focusing mainly on the impact of psychosocial working conditions on mental health. She has conducted a range of research projects examining the role of working conditions in relation to the risk of clinically significant mental health problems, mainly depression. She is the founder of the Danish Work Life Course Cohort Study, a register based cohort study encompassing all individuals who first entered the Danish workforce during the years 1995-2009, and an Associate Editor of Scandinavian Journal of Work, Environment & Health.