Curriculum

1. Education:

1980    High School, Odense Katadralskole, Mat. Biol. branch.

1981:   Immatriculated at Odense University, natural sciences.

1990:   Cand. Scient. degree, Experimental cell biology, molecular biology.

            1999: Ph. D. from Aarhus University; “A preliminary genomic map of the American mink (Mustela vison)

            2019: Clinical Laboratory Geneticist, European Board of Medical Genetics.

II Positions:

1990:   Research assistant, Department of Pharmacology, IMB., Odense University.

1991:   Military service.

1991:   Research assistant, Department of Medical Microbiology, IMB, Odense University.

1992:   Research scientist, Department of Animal Physiology and biochemistry, Danish Institute of Animal Science.

1996:   Research scientist, Department of Breeding and Genetics, Danish Institute of Animal Science.

1997:   Research scientist, Department of Biochemistry, Pharmacology and Genetics,  OUH, Odense.

2006-:  Founder of Amplexa Genetics A/S

2010-:  Senior researcher, Department of Clinical Genetics, Odense University  Hospital, Odense.

2011-:  Associate professor, Institute of Health, University of Southern Denmark

2017-:  Visiting Professor, Near East University, Faculty of Medicine, Department of Medical Genetics, Nicosia, Cyprus

Supervision function

Supervisor on 19 PhD projects, 40 science thesis projects, bachelor projects or other projects.

Editor and Review positions

Editor on PlosOne (more than 100 manuscripts) and Advances in Endocrinology, ContROL– Genetics

Review for PlosOne, Lipidology, European Journal of Endocrinology, SciTechnol, BioMed Central, Clinical Biochemistry, Frontiers in Genetics, Clinical Biochemistry, Frontiers in Genetics, SciTecTool.

Member of the National Genom Center Advisory board on Endocrinology, EndoGenNet.

Member of the National Genom Center Advisory board on interpretation.

CRN Genetics Workstream and CRN Council, the CHI Collaborative Research Network (CRN).

Research councils

The Norwegian Research Council

The French Research Council

Membership of organisations

Since 2019 member of Illumina sequencing expert panel.

Nordic Alliance for Clinical Genomics (NACG)

Danish Sociaty of Clinical Academics (DSKA)

Danish Sociaty of Clinical Genetecist (DSMG)

Odense Pancreas Center (OPAC)