Personal Data:
Born in Charlottenlund, Denmark on the 27th of April
Married to Ulf Bech Christensen
Degrees:
PhD in Biophysics, Master of Science, major in Molecular Biology, major in Physics.
Post-graduate employment:
July 2013 - Post doc at National Institutes of Health in Jennifer
Lippincott-Schwartz' laboratory, Bethesda, Maryland, USA
October 2012 - Post doc at Aarhus University in Lene Nejsum's laboratory, Aarhus, Denmark
April 2010 - September 2012 Post doc in DaMBIC, University of Southern Denmark.
October 2009 - January 2010 Visiting Ph.D student in Professor Paul Wisemann's laboratory at the McGill University, Montreal , Canada
June 2006 - March 2010 Ph.D student in Professor Ole Mouritsens’ MEMPHYS - Centre for Membrane Physics at The University of Southern Denmark (SDU), Odense Campus, Department of Physics and Chemistry
November 2005 – May 2006 Research assistant in Professor Roger Reddel’s laboratory at the Children’s Medical Research Institute at The University of Sydney (USYD), Westmead Hospital Campus
Education:
March 2010 PhD in Biophysics concluded with the thesis: "Single Quantun Dot Imaging -
Quantification of Spectral Characteristics of Quantum Dots and Multicolour Imaging of Membrane Proteins and Lipids in Live Cells"
October 2005 Master of Molecular Biology and Physics concluded with the project: “Molecular basis of perturbed lamin A in Hutchinson-Gilford Progeria” at USYD with the grade 10
July 2003 Bachelor in Molecular Biology concluded with the biophysical project: “Liposome mediated cellular uptake of natural and modified antisense oligo deoxynucleotides” at SDU
Prizes:
July 2007 Poster prize at European Biophysics Congress, London, United Kingdom
May 2007 Winner of Spectral Conflict Competition at Analytical and Quantitative Light Microscpy; Marine Biological Laboratory, Woods Hole, Boston, USA
Teaching Activity:
February 1999 – January 2007 Physics and Molecular Biology for undergraduate Science students at SDU
February 2005 – May 2005 Laboratory course in Biochemistry for second year Biomedicine students at USYD
Talks and seminars
October 2009 McGill University, Department of Physics, Montreal, Canada
June 2009 Annual meeting in association of Physics at the Technical University Denmark
February 2009 Danish National Research Foundation site visit in Odense
September 2008 BioNET meeting, Århus, Denmark
June 2008 Holbæk, Denmark
March 2008 Lund Sweden
January 2008 Chennai, India
August 2007 KU, Copenhagen, Denmark
May 2007 Holbæk, Denmark
October 2006 BioNET meeting, Odense, Denmark
Conference and workshop Activities:
November 2011 Organizer of and lecturer in Ph.D. course "Fluorescence and Photonics", SDU
November 2010 Organizer of Life in 4D - Bioimaging in Space and Time meeting in Helsingør, Denmark
December 2009 Annual meeting of the American Association of Cell Biology, San Diego, California
November 2008 Organizer of joint meeting between MEMPHYS and Physical Chemistry 1, Lund in Odense
May 2008 Organizer of phd workshop, Holbæk, Denmark
March 2008 Organizer of joint meeting between MEMPHYS and Physical Chemistry 1, Lund in Lund
February 2008 American Biophysics annual meeting, Long Beach, California
August 2007 EMBO Workshop: New Methods in Membrane Protein Research; Stockholm, Sweden
July 2007 European Biophysics Congress, London, UK
November 2006 Surface and Colloid Symposium, Lund, Sweden
October 2006 Annual meeting for Association of Biochemistry, Avernæs, Denmark
February 2006 Lorne Cancer Conference, Lorne, Australia
August 2003 Organizer of International Conference for Physics Students (ICPS) in Odense, Denmark
August 1999-2002 ICPS in Helsinki, Finland, Zadar, Croatia, Dublin, Ireland, Budapest, Hungary
PhD Courses:
October 2008 Monitoring Biochemical Interactions in Living Cells, Heidelberg, Germany
January 2008 The Interface of life, Computer simulations, Chennai, India
September 2007 Molecular Biophysics, a cross institutional course in Denmark and Sweden
May 2007 Analytical and Quantitative Light Microscopy; Boston, USA
May 2007 Membrane proteins: Structure, stability and folding; Ålborg, Denmark
September 2006 Smmer School on Biophysics: Supramolecular Structure and Function; Rovinj, Croatia
June 2006 Advanced applied fluorescence microscopy; Odense, Denmark
May 2005 Introduction to Confocal Microscopy; Sydney, Australia
October 2003 Spectroscopy of Nanosize Particles and Nano surfaces; Ålborg, Denmark
September 2003 Summer school in Metabolism; Middelfart, Denmark
Grants:
January 2007 Awarded Lundbeck’s (Copenhagen) travel grant
August 2005 Awarded Krista and Viggo Mogensen’s scholarship
August 2005 Awarded Human Genetic Signatures’ (Sydney) Education Grant
June 2005 Awarded Highschool of Virum’s travel scholarship
February 2005 Awarded Doctor Else Mogensen’s travel scholarship
November 2004 Awarded Danske Bank’s travel scholarship
December 2004 Awarded University of Southern Denmark’s travel scholarship
January 2004 Awarded Novo Nordic scholarship
Organization:
June 2009 - Board member of the Danish Association of Biochemistry
July 2007- March 2010 Founder of Philos- The PhD Network at the Faculty of Science at SDU
September 2006- October 2009 Secretary for the Graduate School for Molecular Biophysics
August 2006 - January 2009 Member of the phd study board at the faculty of science at SDU
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