Anders Albrechtsen

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