Kort præsentation

Sleep is essential for cognitive performance and it is well established that impaired sleep reduces cognition.

Sleep is not a homogeneous brain state, but composed of several micro-structures regulated by many regions within the brain. In recent years, short arousals have been recognized as an integral part of normal sleep adding to the complexity of sleep. I am interested in determining the impact of these frequent sleep-arousal transitions on shaping restorative sleep processes related to both memory consolidation and waste clearance.

Sleep disturbances are a large component of many neurodegenerative and neuropsychiatric disorders and exploring novel therapeutic strategies related to regulation of sleep-arousal transitions can potentially arrest cognitive decline for these disorders.

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Education

2012.03.19: PhD. Graduate School of Health and Medical Sciences, UCPH

2007.04.12: M.Sc. (human biology) Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences, UCPH

2004.06.30: Bachelor of Science (biology) Faculty of Sciences, UCPH     

Professional experience

2022 – now: Group leader. Division of Sleep-Arousal State Transitions at Center for Translational Neuromedicine, UCPH

2020 – now: Assistant professor. Center for Translational Neuromedicine, UCPH

2015 – 2020: Postdoctoral scholar Center for Translational Neuromedicine, UCPH

2012 – 2015: Postdoctoral scholar University of California, San Francisco (UCSF), USA

2008 – 2011: PhD student H. Lundbeck A/S, Valby; Institute of Pharmacology and Pharmacotherapy, UCPH

2008 – 2008: Research scientist, NeuroSearch A/S, Ballerup, Denmark

2007 – 2008: Research assistant, Neurobiology Research Unit, University Hospital of Copenhagen

2006 – 2007: Master student, Neurobiology Research Unit, University Hospital of Copenhagen

Scientific honors

• 2022: Member of Lundbeck Foundation Investigator Network (LFIN).
• 2022: Cover of Nature Neuroscience (August 2022)

Grants

• 2023: Lundbeck Foundation Seed Grant (LFIN)
• 2023: Lundbeck Foundation Fellow
• 2022: Inge Lehmann independent grant, Independent Research Fund Denmark
• 2019: Research proposal 1, Independent Research Fund Denmark (co-applicant)
• 2017: Research proposal 1, Independent Research Fund Denmark (co-applicant)
• 2017: Velux Foundation (redrawn due to overlapping funding)
• 2016: Postdoctoral Fellowship, Augustinus Foundation
• 2011: Postdoctoral Fellowship, The Lundbeck Foundation 

Invited speaker

• Gordon Research Conference - Sleep Regulation and Function. March 3-8 2024, Texas, US.
• BRIDGE (SDU), Feb 23, 2023, online seminar.
• Electrophysiology Forum. H. Lundbeck A/S. Sept 8, 2022, Copenhagen
• Swiss Society for Sleep Research, March 30 – April 1, 2022, Lucerne, Switzerland.
• Sleep 2022. World Sleep Congress, March 11-16, 2022, Rome, Italy.
• Danish Sleep Research Day, November 22, 2021, Copenhagen, Denmark.
• Annual MURI (Multidisciplinary University Research Initiative) Review, November 9, 2021.
• Brain States and Beyond, Oct 13-14, 2021, DGI byen, Copenhagen, Denmark.
• Society for Neuroscience Meeting 2019, Oct 19-23, 2019, Chicago, Illinois, USA.
• Winter Conference on Brain Research, Jan 23-28, 2016, Colorado, USA.

Organization of symposia/conferences 

• Jan 2024: Part of the organizing committee for Nordic Neuroscience meeting 2024
• Maj 2022: Organizer of EBRAINS (Human Brain Project) Young Researchers Event 2022 at Panum Institute.
• 2016 – 2023:    Initiator and organizer of the monthly student and postdoctoral neuroscience forum at UCPH: DIM the Brain

Course organizer

• April 2022-23: PhD course at graduate school at UCPH: Behavioral testing in rodents: there's more than meets the eye

Journal Editor and Reviewer

• 2023: Member of editorial board of Frontiers in Neural Circuits
• Reviewer: Nature (contributor), Neuron (contributor), Scientific Reports, Behavioural Brain Research, Journal of Neuroscience (contributor), Brain Research

Public outreach

• Sept 2023: Hearts & Minds festival, Aarhus (public lecture)
• May 2023: Bloom festival, Copenhagen (panel debate on dream sleep)
• March 2023: Neuroscience Awareness Week (public lecture)
• July-Sept 2022: Interview by the Lundbeck Foundation, KU-SUND, WebMD and Illustreret Videnskab
• April 2022: Forskningens Døgn (public lectures). What is Good Sleep? Novo Nordisk and Station (station.dk/)
• April 2022: Science and Beers (public lecture). What is Good Sleep? Odense Studenterhus.