Resume
Education
2013 - 2017 PhD in bioinformatics in Computer science, Bioinformatics research center at Aarhus University, Denmark
2012 - 2013 MA in NanoScience, Interdisciplinary Nanoscience Center at Aarhus University, Denmark
2009 - 2012 BA in NanoScience, Interdisciplinary Nanoscience Center at Aarhus University, Denmark
Research Experience
2022 - present Postdoctoral Scholar in Priya Moorjani’s group at UC Berkeley, USA
2018 - 2022 Postdoctoral Scholar in Benjamin Peters’ group at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig, Germany
2017 - 2018 Postdoctoral Scholar in Mikkel Heide Schierups group at Bioinformatics research center at Aarhus University, Denmark
2016 6 months PhD exchange in Richard Durbin’s group at the Sanger Institute, Cambridge, UK
2013 - 2017 PhD in bioinformatics in Mikkel Heide Schierups group at Bioinformatics research center at Aarhus University, Denmark
2012 Summer research internship at Bioinformatics research center with Mikkel Heide Schierup at Aarhus University, Denmark
Teaching Experience
2023 Supervising rotation student Jules Perez. (UC Berkeley)
2022 Supervising rotation student Sahil Shah. (UC Berkeley)
2021 Guest lecturer in Molecular Anthropology (Max Planck Institute, Leipzig)
2020 Guest lecturer in Molecular Anthropology (Max Planck Institute, Leipzig)
2017 Teaching assistant in Next-generation sequencing (Aarhus University, 70 hours)
2017 Guest lecturer in Probability models in DNA sequence evolution (Aarhus University)
2017 Supervising Master student Morten Nielsen (Aarhus University)
2016 Teaching assistant in Learning from Genome Data 2 (Aarhus University, 70 hours)
2016 Teaching assistant in Introduktion til bioinformatik (Aarhus University, 140 hours)
2015 Teaching assistant in Tree of Life 2 (Aarhus University, 1 class, 70 hours)
2015 Teaching assistant in Introduktion til bioinformatik (Aarhus University, 140 hours)
2015 Teaching assistant in Next-generation sequencing (Aarhus University, 70 hours)
2014 Teaching assistant in Tree of Life 2 (Aarhus University, 70 hours)
2014 Teaching assistant in Tree of Life 1 (Aarhus University ,70 hours)
2014 Teaching assistant in Next-generation sequencing (Aarhus University, 70 hours)
2014 Teaching assistant in Tree of life (Aarhus University, 70 hours)
Outreach and Service
2022 Workshop: Introduction to ancient DNA analysis. American Association of Biological Anthropologists, Reno, USA
2022 “Doing a PhD in Europe” - Q&A session with students at San Francisco state University, USA
2020 Conversations with Scientists on behalf of Today’s Science - outreach to high school and college students. https://infobase.com/products/todays-science/
2017 “The world of proteins”. Organizer at Public school science day (Erhvervspraktik for folkeskolerne), Aarhus University, Denmark
2016 “The world of proteins”. Organizer at Public school science day (Erhvervspraktik for folkeskolerne), Aarhus University, Denmark
2017 - present Reviewer for 21 manuscripts submitted to journals including Nature, Science, Nature communications, Nature Ecology and Evolution, PlosGenetics and more
2012 “The genomic revolution”. Speaker at Pecha Kucha event, Aarhus, Denmark
Conference presentation and posters
2023 Presentation: Bay Area Population Genomics Conference, UC Davis, USA
2023 Presentation: American Association of Biological Anthropologists, Reno, USA
2023 Poster: Probabilistic Modeling in Genomics, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, USA
2022 Poster: Population, Evolutionary, and Quantitative Genetics Conference Registration Confirmation, Asilomar, USA
2022 Presentation: Center for computational biology retreat, Los Gatos, USA
2021 Presentation: International Society for Biomolecular Archaeology, Toulouse, France
2021 Poster: Biology of genomes meeting, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, USA
2019 Presentation: Society for Molecular Biology & Evolution meeting in Manchester, UK
2019 Poster: Probabilistic Modeling in Genomics, Aussois, France.
2019 Poster: Reconstructing the human past: using ancient and modern genomics, Heidelberg, Germany
2019 Presentation: Human Evolution, Cambridge, UK
2018 Presentation: Society for Molecular Biology & Evolution meeting in Yokohama, Japan
2017 Poster: Society for Molecular Biology & Evolution meeting in Austin, USA
2017 Presentation: Probabilistic Modeling in Genomics, Aarhus, Denmark
2017 Presentation: Human Evolution, Cambridge, UK
2016 Poster: Society for Molecular Biology & Evolution meeting in Gold Coast, Australia
2016 Poster: Biology of genomes meeting, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, USA
2015 Poster: Biology of genomes meeting, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, USA
Invited talks
2023 “Reconstructing the history of archaic introgression in modern humans: Insights from whole genome sequences of worldwide populations”, EPIC conference, Denmark
2023 “Reviving extinct archaic humans”, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA
2022 “Genetic Analysis of 13 Neandertals from two sites in the Altai Mountains”, UC Berkeley, USA
2021 “Our inner Neandertal: The amount and role of Neandertal ancestry in modern human genomes”, University of Kent, UK
2021 “Analysis of 12 Neandertal individuals from Chagyrskaya cave and 2 individuals from Okladnikov cave”, Aarhus University, Denmark
2020 “The nature of Neanderthal introgression revealed by 27,566 Icelandic genomes”, Georgia Institute of Technology, USA
2020 “The nature of Neanderthal introgression revealed by 27,566 Icelandic genomes”, Max Planck institute of evolutionary anthropology, Leipzig, Germany
2017 “Detecting introgressed archaic haplotypes in modern human genome sequences”, Max Planck institute of evolutionary anthropology, Leipzig, Germany
2017 “Detecting introgressed archaic haplotypes in modern human genome sequences”, Department of Genetics, Harvard Medical School, USA
Languages
Languages: Danish (native), English (fluent), German (intermediate)
Computer languages: python, R, unix bash, C++