Wind studied at the Royal Academy of Music, Aarhus/Aalborg, and in 1990 she graduated with a Master's Degree from the University of Massachusetts.[1] In 1993 she obtained a Master's Degree in political science from Aarhus University.[1] She then attended the European University Institute near Florence, where she earned her PhD in 1998.[1]
In 1996 Wind became a research assistant at the Danish Institute of Foreign Policy (da). In 1998, she visited Harvard Law School to study with Joseph H. H. Weiler.[1] In 1998 she became a professor in the Department of Political Science at the University of Copenhagen.[1] That year she was also employed as a commentator at the Danish weekly newspaper Weekendavisen.[1] In 2008, she became the Director of the Centre for European Politics at the University of Copenhagen.[1] Wind has also held professorships at the iCourts Center at the University of Copenhagen and in the Faculty of Law at the University of Oslo.[1] Wind specializes in the interplay between law and politics in the EU,[2] particularly as it pertains to EU border politices.[3]
In 2009, Wind won the European Women's Award for her work communicating about European politics.[4] In 2012, Wind was the recipient of the inaugural Tøger Seidenfaden Prize, awarded to a European Union researcher who tirelessly disseminates knowledge about the European Union.[5]
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