Curriculum Vitae

Personal details
Date of birth: June 26th 1958
Place of birth: Galten, Denmark
Married to cand. ling. merc. Helle Veller Mortensen
Three children: Max, Emilie and Marcus Veller Mortensen

Academic degrees:
1978     Highschool degree from Silkeborg Amtsgymnasium (math - phys)
1984     B.Sc. (bachelor, chemistry and biology) Aarhus University
1987     M.Sc. (cand. scient, chemistry) Aarhus University
1992     Ph.D. (lic. scient, science) Aarhus University

Scientific appointments:
1984 - 87     Research assistant, Div. of Biostructural Chemistry, Dept. of Chemistry, Aarhus University, Denmark
1984 - 86     Research assistant, Laboratoire de Biochemie, Ecole Polytechnique, Paris, France
1987 - 87     Research associate, Div. of Biostructural Chemistry, Dept. of Chemistry, Aarhus University, Denmark
1988 - 90     Research associate, Bioregulation Research Centre at Div. of Biostructural Chemistry, Dept. of Chemistry, AarhusUniversity, Denmark
1991 - 94     Carlsberg  research  fellow, Dept. of Chemistry, Aarhus University, Denmark
1995 - 96     Associate professor, Div. of Biostructural Chemistry, Dept. of Chemistry, Aarhus University, Denmark
1996 -         Associate professor, Dept. of Molecular and Structural Biology, Aarhus University, Aarhus University, Denmark

Short term posts
1989      Dept. of Biological Chemistry, School of Medicine, University of California Davis, USA (Prof. J.W.B. Hershey)
1991      Dept. of Biological Chemistry, School of Medicine, University of California Davis, USA (Prof. J.W.B. Hershey)
1993      IBPC, Paris, France (Prof. M. Grunberg-Manago)
1993      IBPC, Paris, France (Prof. R. Buchingham)
1993      Dept. of Biological Chemistry, School of Medicine, University of California Davis, USA (Prof. J.W.B. Hershey)
1999      Invited professor at Laboratoire de Biochemie, Ecole Polytechnique, Paris, France, (Prof. S. Blanquet)
2000      Invited professor at Laboratoire de Biochemie, Ecole Polytechnique, Paris, France, (Prof. S. Blanquet)
2001      Invited professor at Laboratoire de Biochemie, Ecole Polytechnique, Paris, France, (Prof. S. Blanquet)

Other appointments
1996 - 00 Member of the Strategic Information Committee at the Faculty of Science, Aarhus University
1997 -     Head of safety and security at of the Department of Molecular and Structural Biology, Aarhus University
1997 -     Head of the IT-committee of the Department of Molecular and Structural Biology, Aarhus University
1997 - 00 Member of the Scientific Committee of Chemistry Olympiad 2000 in Denmark
1998 - 01 Scientific member of the Board of the Department of Molecular and Structural Biology, Aarhus University
1999 - 00 Member of the Board of the Danish Union of Scientists
2001 -     Deputy Chairman of the Department of Molecular Biology, Aarhus University

Memberships
The Danish Biochemical Society, FEBS and IUBMB
The Danish Union of Scientists
The Danish Academy of Natural Sciences
Association Scientifique Franco Danoise (Treasurer)

Academic work
1986 -     Supervisor and cosupervisor for 44 B.Sc.-, 33 M.Sc - and 12 Ph.D. projects
Coorganiser of 5 international symposia and courses

Teaching
1988 - 97 Lecturer and organiser of several courses in Biotechnology and Biostructural Chemistry
1988        Lecturer at Biotechnology course for hospital technicians
1988 - 90 Lecturer and organiser of Bioorganic Chemistry and Technology courses for the Ministry of

Education
1995 - 97 Lecturer and organiser of course in Demonstration Experiments in Chemistry
1995 -      Censor in chemistry for the Ministry of Education
1997 -      Lecturer and coorganiser of course in Proteintechnology
1997 - 04 Lecturer and organiser of course in Bioinformatics
1998 - 99 Organiser of course in Biotechnology for university trained teachers
1999 -     Lecturer and organiser of course in Laboratory Safety
2002 - 03 Lecturer and coorganiser of course in Physical Biochemistry
2002 -     Lecturer and organiser of course in Biostructural Chemistry and Biotechnology for highschool teachers
2005 -     Lecturer and organiser of course in Information Retrieval

Publications
48 original research papers, 5 papers in books,  encyclopedia or proceedings, 4 textbooks,  2 thesi, 41 contributions to conferences,  18 popular scientific lectures and more than 150 entries to DNA-sequence and protein structure databases.