CV

Education

  • PhD in Computational Biology, University of Edinburgh, UK
  • MSc in Biometry (Biostatistics), University of Reading, UK
  • BSc in Mathematics and Statistics, University of Warwick, UK

Work

  • 2025-Current: Assistant Professor and Group Leader in Computational RNA Biology, University of Copenhagen, DK
  • 2020-2024: Assistant Professor in Computational RNA Biology, University of Copenhagen, DK
  • 2015-2020: Postdoc in Computational Modelling for Transcriptional Regulation, University of Copenhagen, DK

Funding

  • 2025 – 2029 Main investigator Novo Nordisk Foundation Data Science Initiative
  • 2023 – 2025 co-investigator Villum Experiment (collaboration with main investigator Jamie Auxillos)

Leave of absence

  • Maternity leave in 2017, 2019 and 2021

Teaching

  • Responsible for large courses in statistics and data science
  • Supervised a number of MSc thesis projects and previously co-supervised 2 PhD projects
  • Completed training in University Pedagogy and PhD project supervision
  • External examiner/censor for numerous MSc theses in bioinformatics within Denmark

Languages

  • English (native)
  • Danish (fluent, Studieprøven C1 exam)
  • Japanese (lower intermediate)

Other

  • Regular peer reviewer for range of journals, inc. Nature Communications, NAR, BMC Genomics + others.
  • Member of RNA Society