Eva Arnspang Christensen

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Eva Arnspang Christensen

Associate Professor and Head of Biotechnology Section, Ph.D. in Biophysics, M.Sc. Molecular biology and Physics

 https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3095-4070

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Curriculum

 

ACADEMIC DIPLOMAS

May 2010: Ph.D. in Biophysics, concluded with the thesis: "Single Quantum Dot Imaging Quantification of Spectral Characteristics of Quantum Dots and Multicolour Imaging of Membrane Proteins and Lipids in Live Cells". My mentors were Professor Ole G. Mouritsen and Dr. Christoffer B. Lagerholm MEMPHYS – Center of Excellence for Biomembrane Physics, Department of Physics and Chemistry, Faculty of Science, SDU.
October 2005: Master of Molecular Biology and Physics, Concluded with the project: “Molecular basis of perturbed lamin A in Hutchinson Gilford Progeria”. I was supervised by Professor Tony Weiss, University of Sydney, Australia and Professor Karsten Kristiansen, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Faculty of Science, SDU.
July 2003: Bachelor in Molecular Biology, Concluded with the biophysical project: “Liposome mediated cellular uptake of natural and modified antisense oligo deoxynucleotides”. I was supervised by Professor Karsten Kristiansen, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Faculty of Science and Dr. Ling Miao, MEMPHYS – Center of Excellence for Biomembrane Physics, Department of Physics and Chemistry, Faculty of Science, SDU.

SELECTED PRIZES / AWARDS / GRANTS

January 2018: Villum Young Investigator Grant: 8.100.000 kr.
November 2014: Carlsberg Post Doc Grant: 570.000 kr.
April 2013: Augustinus travel award: 50.000 kr.
February 2013: FNU Sapere Aude young elite researcher grant: 2.100.000 kr.
July 2007: Poster prize at European Biophysics Congress, London, United Kingdom
May 2007: Winner of Spectral Conflict Competition at Analytical and Quantitative Light Microscopy; Marine Biological Laboratory, Woods Hole, Boston, USA

EMPLOYMENTS IN ACADEMIA

May 2019 - present: Associate professor, Head of Unit for the Biotechnology Section and group leader for the molecular biophotonics group at the Department of Chemical Engineering, Biotechnology and Environmental Technology at the Faculty of Engineering, at the University of Southern Denmark (SDU)
April 2018 - May 2019: Associate professor and group leader for the molecular biophotonics group at the Department of Chemical Engineering, Biotechnology and Environmental Technology at the Faculty of Engineering, at the University of Southern Denmark (SDU)
June 2016 – March 2018: Assistant professor and group leader for the molecular biophotonics group at the Department of Chemical Engineering, Biotechnology and Environmental Technology at the Faculty of Engineering, at the University of Southern Denmark (SDU)
July 2013 – June 2014: FNU Sapere Aude Post doc at National Institutes of Health in Jennifer Lippincott-Schwartz’s Cell Organelle Section, Bethesda, Maryland, USA
October 2012 – June 2013 and July 2014 – May 2016: Post doc in Associate Professor Lene Niemann Nejsum’s laboratory at the Department for Molecular Biology and Genetics, Department of Clinical Medicine and Interdisciplinary Nanoscience Center (iNANO), Aarhus University (AU)
April 2010 – September 2012: Post doc in Danish Molecular Biomedical Imaging Center (DaMBIC), University of Southern Denmark (SDU) directed by Professor Luis Bagatolli, MEMPHYS – Center of Excellence for Biomembrane Physics, Faculty of Science, SDU.
October 2009 - January 2010: Visiting Ph.D. student in Professor Paul Wisemann's laboratory at McGill University, Montreal, Canada
June 2006 - March 2010: Ph.D. student in Professor Ole G. Mouritsens’ MEMPHYS - Center for Biomembrane Physics, Department of Physics and Chemistry, University of Southern Denmark (SDU)
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
September 2004 – September 2005: Masters project student in Professor Anthony S. Weiss’ laboratory at USYD, Sydney Campus

SELECTED TALKS

June 2023: Anbission Network meeting at McGill University, Montreal, Canada
March 2023: Anbission Network meeting, Akureyri, Iceland
February 2023: Biophysical Society Annual Meeting, San Diego, CA, USA
January 2023: Anbission network meeting in Tromsø, Nrway
April 2019: Focus on Microscopy, London, UK
July 2017: International Union of Pure and Applied Biophysics / European Biophysical Societie’s Association Conference, Edinburgh, Scotland
May 2016: Invited talk at the fourth Nordic super-resolution conference, Panum, KU.
May 2016: Invited talk at the Sandbjerg meeting on membrane receptors, Sønderborg, Denmark.
September 2015: Symposium at Skejby University Hospital on membrane proteins, Aarhus, Denmark.
June 2015: Center for Stochastic Geometry and Advanced Bioimaging, Department of Mathematics, Aarhus University.
May 2014: National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, USA
May 2013: Ion Transport meeting at Sandbjerg, Sønderborg, Denmark
April 2013: Annual Meeting in the Danish Biochemical Society, Model Organisms in Molecular Biology and Biomedical Research, Helsingør, Denmark. Invited talk.
October 2009: McGill University, Department of Physics, Montreal, Canada
June 2009: Annual meeting in association of Physics at the Technical University Denmark, Lyngby, Denmark. Invited talk
March 2008: Department of Physical Chemistry, Lund, Sweden, invited talk.
January 2008: Indian Institute of Technology, Chennai, India
August 2007: KU, Nanoscience Center, Copenhagen, Denmark

CONFERENCE AND WORKSHOP ACTIVITIES

May 2016: Fourth Nordic super-resolution conference, Panum, KU.
May 2016: Sandbjerg meeting on membrane receptors, Sønderborg, Denmark.
September 2015: Symposium at Skejby University Hospital, Aarhus Denmark.
December 2009, 2012, 2013, 2015, 2016 and 2017: Annual meeting of the American Association of Cell Biology, Philadelphia, Pensylvania; San Diego, California; San Fransisco, California and New Orleans, Lousiana.
October 2010: LFD Workshop, Laboratory of Fluorescence Dynamics, University of California, Irvine, California
February 2008: American Biophysics Society’s annual meeting, Long Beach, California
August 2007: EMBO Workshop: New Methods in Membrane Protein Research; Stockholm, Sweden
July 2007: European Biophysics Congress, London, UK. Won poster prize.
November 2006: Surface and Colloid Symposium, Lund, Sweden
October 2006, 2010, 2011 and 2012: Annual meeting for Association of Biochemistry on Membrane proteins, Bioimaging, Frontiers in Cell Biology and Model Systems, held in Avernæs and Helsinore, Denmark
February 2006: Lorne Cancer Conference, Lorne, Australia
August 1999-2002: ICPS in Helsinki, Finland, Zadar, Croatia, Dublin, Ireland, Budapest, Hungary

ORGANIZING CONFERENCE AND WORKSHOP ACTIVITIES

October 2018: Main organizer of The Danish Bioimaging meeting, Odense, Denmark.
November 2011: Co-organizer of Frontiers in Cell Biology meeting in Helsingør, Denmark
November 2010: Main Organizer of Life in 4D - Bioimaging in Space and Time meeting in Helsingør, Denmark
May 2008: Organizer of PhD Biophysics workshop, Holbæk, Denmark
March 2008: Organizer of joint meeting between MEMPHYS and Physical Chemistry 1 in Lund
August 2003: Co-organizer of International Conference for Physics Students (ICPS) in Odense, Denmark

GRANTS AND SPONSORSHIPS

December 2015: Awarded Lundbeck travel grant: 19.000 kr.
November 2011 Nikon sponsorship to PhD course Fluorescence and Photonics: 10.000 kr.
October 2011 Novo Nordisk sponsorship to Frontiers in Cell Biology, Helsingør, Denmark: 10.000 kr
September 2010: Nikon, Zeiss, Olympus, Novo Nordisk and Andor Instruments sponsored Life in 4D, which I organized: Total 210.000 kr.
January 2007: Awarded Lundbeck travel grant: 50.000 kr.
August 2005: Awarded Krista and Viggo Mogensen’s scholarship: 11.000 kr.
August 2005: Awarded Human Genetic Signature (Sydney) Education Grant: 10.000 kr.
June 2005: Awarded Virum High School travel scholarship: 3.000 kr.
February 2005: Awarded Doctor Else Mogensen’s travel scholarship: 10.000 kr.
November 2004: Awarded Danish Bank’s travel scholarship: 5000 kr.
January 2004: Awarded Novo Nordic scholarship: 60.000 kr.

COMMISSION OF THRUST

 

June 2023 - present: The Danish Board on Research Misconduct.

October 2018 - present: Evaluator of Marie Sklodowska Curie Scholarships (Horizon 2020)
August 2018 - present: SDU Institutional Review (Research Ethics) Founder and Board member.
May 2016 - present: Board member in the Danish network for bioimaging.
November 2011: Lecturer, programme responsible, organizer and fund raiser for the Ph.D. course “Fluorescence and Photonics”, SDU
June 2009 –present: Board member of the Danish Association of Biochemistry
July 2007 – March 2010: Founder of and board member of Philos- The Ph.D. Network at the Faculty of Science at SDU
September 2006- October 2009: Coordinator for the Graduate School for Molecular Biophysics
August 2006 - January 2009: Member of the PhD study board at the faculty of science at SDU

TEACHING CV

Pedagogical view :

I wish to: Make the students independent: The students must be able to master the tools and calculate the exercises themselves independent of me as teacher; Deliver knowledge: The students can not figure everything out themselves, they must be provided with the tools to calculate the exercises; This has to happen in an emotionally safe teaching environmet: It is important that the students have peace to learn and feel safe so that they will say something which is almost correct or wrong. In this there is often good learning about what the correct answer is.

Courses taught, responsible teacher:

  • Fall 2016, 2017, 2018 and Spring 2016, 2017, 2019: Course responsible for IFG1 and IFG2, first year mathematics and physics for engineers in chemistry and biotechnology at the technical faculty at SDU.
  • November 2011 and 2012: Founder, lecturer, programme responsible, organizer and fund raiser for the international Ph.D. course Fluorescence and Photonics (BMB825), SDU. The course was sponsored by Nikon. 5 ECTS.
  • Fall 2018: Founder, lecturer, programme responsible, organizer for the cross institutional course in Bioimaging at SDU, AU, DTU and KU. 9 ECTS.
  • Class teaching:
  • January 2017, 2018, 2019: Lecturer in fluorescence and photonics (BM207) for PhD students at SDU.
  • February 2007 – April 2007: Instructor in Physics A (FY501) for first year science students at SDU.
  • February 2004 – April 2004: Instructor in Biology for first year science students at SDU.
  • September 2003 – October 2003: Instructor in Biology for first year science students at SDU.
  • September 2003 – December 2003: Instructor in Physics A (FY01) for first year science students at SDU.
  • February 2003 – April 2003: Instructor in Biology for first year science students at SDU.
  • February 2003 – May 2003: Instructor in Physics A (FY01) for first year science students at SDU.
  • September 2002 – October 2002: Instructor in Biology for first year science students at SDU.
  • September 2002 – December 2002: Instructor in Physics A (FY01) for first year science students at SDU.
  • February 2002 – May 2002: Instructor in Physics A (FY01) for first year science students at SDU.
  • September 2001 – December 2001: Instructor in Physics A (FY01) for first year science students at SDU.
  • February 2001 – May 2001: Instructor in Physics A (FY01) for first year medicine students at SDU.
  • September 2000 – December 2000: Instructor in Physics A (FY01) for first year medicine students at SDU.
  • February 2000 – May 2000: Instructor in Introduction to Physics A (FY01) for first year science students at SDU.
  • September 1999 – December 1999: Instructor in Introduction to Physics A (FY01) for first year science students at SDU.
  • February 1999 – May 1999: Instructor in Introduction to Physics A (FY01) for first year science students at SDU.
  • Laboratory classes:
  • Project supervisor for group 1 (PTE3) September – December 2017 and 2018 at SDU.
  • February 2005 – May 2005: Laboratory course in Molecules, metabolism and cells (MBLG2071/2072) for second

Formal pedagogical education:

Professional postgraduate teacher training for university lecturers taken at SDU fall 2016, External supervisor Dorthe Madsen; Course in PhD supervision spring 2018, SDU; Course about supervision strategies, roles and relations spring 2019, SDU.

Experiences from pedagogical functions:

I have together with the leadership at KBM in 2019 designed a new bachelor and master programme in chemical engineering and biotechnology.

Programme Coordinator for courses:

Founder of and programme organizer for the national cross institutional course in bioimaging Spring 2018 which will be held at AU, SDU and KU.

Programme organizer for the fluorescence and imaging course BMB207 January 2016 and 2017 at SDU.

September 2007 + 2008 – December 2007 + 2008: Coordinator and instructor at the cross institutional PhD course Molecular Biophysics at SDU, AU, Lund, KU and RUC. 

September 2006- October 2009: Coordinator for the Graduate School for Molecular Biophysics

Other work with pedagogical relevance:

I have been part of the bridge building activity in the Fall 2017, this activity is addressed to high school students for who we plan a three-day university experience, lab tours and hands on experiments. 

 

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