Anders Albrechtsen
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Contact
Present position
Professor, The Bioinformatics centre, Department of Biology, Copenhagen Uni.
Research interest
Applied Statistical and computational methods for analysis of genomic data including methods for quantifying and correcting for population structure, detecting selection across the genome, loci dependent methods for modeling identity by descent, associations in small historically isolated population and various topics for analysis of next generation sequencing including low pass sequencing and ancient DNA.
Education/training
2000, Natural Science Basic Education, Roskilde University Centre, Denmark
2003, BSc in Molecular biology , Roskilde University Centre
2002-2004, Mathematics, Roskilde University, Denmark
2006, MSc in Bioinformatics, Copenhagen University
2009, PhD at the department of biostatistics, Copenhagen University
Relevant positions
2005, Employed at Steno Diabetes Center as a master thesis student.
2006, Research assistant., Steno Diabetes Center
2006, Research assistant, Department of Biostatistics, University of Copenhagen, Denmark
2006-2009, PhD student, Department of Biostatistics, University of Copenhagen, Denmark
2008, Visiting Scholar at the Department of integrative biology, University of California, Berkeley
2009-2012, Post doc Department of integrative UC Berkeley/Copenhagen Uni
2012-2013, Post doc, The Bioinformatics centre, Copenhagen Uni
2014-2020, Associate professor, The Bioinformatics centre, Copenhagen Uni.
2020-present, Professor, The Bioinformatics centre, Copenhagen Uni.
Publications
Accepted peer reviewed publications | >100 |
Fancy (Nature+Science) | 16 |
H-Index | 40 (50) from Thomson Reuters (google scholar) |
ResearcherID | [1] |
Orcid | link |
Google Scholar | link |
full publication list - If my terrible php hack works it should always be updated (Pubmed)
International experience
- I spend a total of 30 months at UC Berkeley, US, in 2008-2012 doing my PhD and Post docs.
- I visited Decode genetics, Reykjavik, Iceland, for a month in 2012 and a month 2013.
- I co-organize or gives lectures at international workshops, including China, Switzerland, Portugal, Finland and Czech Republic (see workshop )
honors and awards
Personal grants
Det Frie Forskningråd | Post doc grant | 1,600,000 DKK | 2009-2011 |
Villum Fonden | Young investigator programme | 2,300,000 DKK | 2011-2015 |
Det Frie Forskningråd | project 1 | 1,700,000 DKK | 2014- |
Lundbeck foundation | Lundbeck fellow | 10,000,000 DKK | 2016- |
co-PI on large grants
LuCamp | Lundbeck Foundation | 60,000,000 DKK | PI:Oluf Pedersen |
UCPH Excellence Programme | KU2016 | 36,000,000 DKK | PI:Eske Willerslev |
Scientific community participation
selected Talks
* | Genome Wide Association Study Symposium | Herlev | 2016 |
Elixir* | Annual Danish Bioinformatics Conference | Odense, DK | 2015 |
ASHG | American society of human genetics | San Diego, US | 2014 |
StatSeq WG2* | Genotyping By Sequencing Meeting | Wageningen, Netherlands | 2011 |
GENYO* | Genomics of Complex Diseases: New Challenges | Granada, Spain | 2011 |
ENAR* | Eastern North American Region International Biometric Society | San Antonio | 2009 |
EMGM | European mathematical meeting | Heidelberg, DE | 2007 |
EMGM | European mathematical meeting | Cardiff, Wales | 2006 |
Hapmap | Beyong the HapMap | Boston, US | 2006 |
HGV* | Human Genetic Variation meeting | Hong Kong | 2006 |
- Invited
Open scientific Software
Software for population genetic analysis, association studies and next generation sequencing data. All software can be found at www.popgen.dk/software
Journal Reviewer
I participate as peer reviewer for the following international scientific journals including American Journal of human genetic, Nature Genetics, Genome Research, Genetics, Annals of human genetics, PLoS Genetics, PLoS ONE, Genetic epidemiology and others.
Teaching
Course organizer
PhD course co-organizer | Human population genetics course | Lecturer and running exercises on an intensive five full day long PhD course | 2008-2013 |
PhD course co-organizer | Analysis of genotype and NGS data in medical and population genetics | Lecturer and running exercises on an intensive five full day long PhD course | 2016 |
Master course co-organizer | Course Advanced topics in bioinformatics | lecturing, running exercises and formulating exam assignments | 2015-2016 |
Master course organizer | Statistics for molecular biomedicine | 3 Month course, lecturing, running exercises and formulating exam assignments | 2012-2016 |
Supervision
Master students (projects) | Supervised >10 projects | |
Master students (Thesis) | Supervisor for one Master student | 9 Finished Master students |
PhD students | Main supervisor for 3 PhD students | 2 finished |
PhD students | Co-supervisor for 3 PhD students | 1 finished |
Post Docs | Main supervisor for 2 Post Doc | 0 former |
Lecturer for course or Workshop
Evomics | PhD course / Workshop | Workshop on Population and Speciation Genomics | Cesky Krumlov, Czech republic | 2018 |
Weggis | PhD course / Workshop | Bioinformatics for Adaptation Genomics | Weggis Switzerland | 2017 & 2018 |
Oulu | PhD course / Workshop | Next generation sequencing for population genetics | Oulu Finland | 2016 |
EMBO | PhD course / Workshop | Measuring intra-species diversity using high-throughput sequencing | Instituto Gulbenkian de Ciência, Portugal | 2015 |
UCPH | Master Course | Population genetics | Biology, UCPH | 2012-2016 |
UCPH | PhD Course | Molecular Genetics in Metabolic Diseases | Sund/Metabo Center UCPH | 2016 |
AU | Workshop | Århus Uni. | 2007 |
Additional training
UCPH | pedagogy | University Pedagogy | Course spanning a year - 250 hour workload | 2016 |
UCPH | pedagogy | Introduction to University Pedagogy | one week course - 75 hour workload | 2015 |
UCPH | management | conflict management for leaders | 3-hours workshop | 2017 |