1. Education (date for degree award in brackets)

1996(24 April):   MSc (cand.scient.) in chemistry-biotechnology, Aarhus University (AU).

2000(22 May):    PhD, AU. “Synthesis of Recombinant MASP and MBL”. Supervisor: J.C. Jensenius

2014(5 Sept.):     DMSc (dr. med), AU. “On the Roles of Polyvalent binding in Immune Recognition”

2015:                “Leading the Virtual Company”, Pasteur Program, Harvard Business School

2. Current & Recent Employments

2001-2005:        Research Fellow, Dept. of Pathology, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA in the laboratory of Professor Timothy A. Springer

2005-2012:        Associate Professor, Dept. of Biomedicine

2012-2017:        Professor (MSO) in Biophysical Immunology, Dept. of Biomedicine, AU

2017-:                Professor in Biophysical Immunology, Dept. of Biomedicine, AU

3. Awards

2007:                 “Dr.med. Niels Kjærgaards og Overlæge, dr.med. Hans Peter Brasch Kjærgaards Mindelegat”. Awarded by Rektor (president) of AU.

4. Recent Leadership Experience

2005-:              Principle Investigator and Head, Biophysical Immunol. Lab., Dept. of Biomedicine, AU.

2014-:              Head, Graduate Program in Biomedicine, AU.

2017-:              Founding Chairman (2017) and Member (2018-) and Member, Medical Innovation Day 2017 Organizing Committee.

2017-:              Member, Advisory Board, Doktoratskolleg Molecular Fundamentals of Inflammation (DK-MOLIN), Medical University of Graz, Graz, Austria

2019-20:          Member, Steering Committee, BioPeople – Denmark’s Life Science Cluster

5. Key Research Interests

Innate immunity; immune cell adhesion to extracellular constituents; immunotherapy and biological therapy, application of biophysical methods in molecular immunology and cell biology; biomedical applications of nanoscience.

6. Research training (2005-21)

Four postdoctoral employees. Seventeen PhD Students: Main supervisor for 7 students; co-supervisor for 10 students (1 pending completion). Supervisor for 17 MSc, ERASMUS, and Medical Research Year Students (1 pending completion). Supervisor for 10 experimental B.Sc. thesis students.

7. Publication statistics

Seventy-seven peer-reviewed journal publications, including publications in Nature (1), J. Exp. Med. (1), PNAS (3), J. Biol. Chem. (2), and J. Immunol. (13), 14 contributions to book or scientific anthologies, 8 contributions to science communication. Two granted US patents. My publications are cited more than 5,300 times (Google Scholar: http://scholar.google.dk/citations?user=bX5FHeAAAAAJ&hl=en) and my Hirsch index is 34. Most cited publication has more than 950 citations (June 2021).