BASIC INFORMATION

Name                  Ida Moltke

Website               https://idamoltke.wordpress.com

ORCID                 0000-0001-7052-8554

EDUCATION

2011                    PhD, Dept. of Biology, UCPH. Advisor: Rasmus Nielsen

2007                    MSc in Bioinformatics, Dept. of Biology, UCPH.

2005                    BSc Computer Science (major) and Math (minor), UCPH.

CURRENT AND PREVIOUS ACADEMIC POSITIONS

2024-present    Assoc. professor (promotion program), Dept. of Biology, UCPH

2020-2024         Assoc. professor, Dept. of Biology, UCPH 

2015-2019         Assistant professor, Dept. of Biology, UCPH

2012-2014         Postdoc, Dept. of Human Genetics, University of Chicago

2011-2012         Postdoc, Dept. of Biology, UCPH.

LEAVES OF ABSENCE

2021-2022          ~33 weeks of maternity leave spread out over ~13 months

SCHOLARSHIPS AND PERSONAL GRANTS

2022                    NNF funding to organize a conference  (~100k dkk)

2021-2025          Carlsberg Foundation Young Researcher Fellowship (~5M dkk)

2019-2023          ERC starting grant 2018 (~1.5M€)

2019-2024          Villum Young Investigator Award 2018 (~5M dkk)

2018-2021          Innovation Fund Denmark, Industrial PhD (co-PI)

2016                    L’Oréal–UNESCO For Women in Science Award (~100k dkk)

2015-2019          Young group leader grant YDUN, DFF (~6.5M dkk)

2012                    Young Elite Researcher Award, DFF (~1M dkk)

2011-2013          Postdoc grant, DFF | Medical Sciences (~1.8M dkk)

2011                    Postdoc grant, DFF | Natural Sciences (declined)

RECOGNITION, AWARDS AND ACADEMY MEMBERSHIPS

2016-2021          Selected to be a member of ”Det Unge Akademi” 

2016                    L’Oreal–UNESCO’s For Women in Science Award, Denmark

2015                    SSSD Young Investigators Award

2015                    Nominated for AcademiaNet

2012                    Sapere Aude: DFF Young Elite Researcher Award

RECOGNITION AND AWARDS TO MY GROUP

2022                 My PhD student Frederik won a Charles J. Epstein Award

2022                 My PhD student Frederik won best PhD talk award at EPIC-DK

2022                 My postdoc Cindy won best postdoc talk at EPIC-DK 

SELECTED INVITED TALKS

2024                 Keynote talk at 8th Annual Danish Bioinformatics Conference 

2024                 ESHG annual meeting, Germany 

2024                 Keynote talk, Karolinskas Bioinformatics Network, Sweden

2023                 Genome Informatics conference, Cold Spring Harbor, USA

2023                 GeneForum conference, Estonia

2023                 Danish Diabetes and Endocrine Academy postdoc Summit

2023                 Dept. of Computational Biology, University of Lausanne

2021                 DDLS conference, Stockholm, Sweden (online)

2020                 Collège de France, France (postponed due to COVID)

2020                 Uppsala University (postponed due to COVID)

2019                 An Australian Royal Academy of Sciences workshop, Sydney

2019                 Keynote talk at ProbGen conference (declined)

2019                 EMBL meeting, Heidelberg

2018                 UCL, UK

2018                 Keynote talk at Math&Comp. Evolutionary Biology, France

2017                 Grønlands Medicinsk Selskab, Greenland

2017                 EMBO workshop in Naples, Italy

2016                 Probabilistic modelling in Genomics, University of Oxford

2016                 University of Bern

2015                 Genetic Epidemiology Symposium, Nantes

2015                 The 50th SSSD meeting, Oslo

2014                 ProbGen, Oxford University

SELECTED SOFTWARE 

localNgsRelate  Infers IBD segments in individuals from low-depth NGS data

NgsRemix          Infers IBD in admixed individuals from low-depth NGS data

IBSrelate            Infers relatedness from two low-depth NGS genomes

NgsRelate          Infers IBD from low-depth NGS data

RelateAdmix      Infers IBD among admixed individuals

COMMISSIONS OF TRUST

2024                 Chair of a PhD committee at BIO, UCHP

2023                 Opponent at a PhD defense, Uppsala University, Sweden

2022-present   PhD thesis committee member, University of Lausanne   

2020                 Chair of PhD committee at the GLOBE Institute, UCHP

2020                 Invited reviewer for Vienna Science and Technology Fund

2020                 Invited reviewer of an ERC starting grant

2017-present   Co-editor of 4th edition of Handbook of Statistical Genomics

2012-present   Reviewer for a range of journals, incl. Cell & Nature Genetics

ORGANISATION OF MEETINGS AND SEMINARS

2024                 Organizer of an EMBO meeting, Heidelberg, Germany 

2023                 Organizer of a Danish population genetics meeting 

2022                 Organizer of an EMBO meeting, Heidelberg, Germany 

2022                 Organizer of a Danish population genetics meeting 

2020                 Organizer of online seminar series on population genetics

2019-present   Organizer of monthly seminar on population genetics

2018                 Organizer of department event about the future of publishing

2017                 Programme committee member, ProbGen, Aarhus

2017                 Organizer of a career seminar for PhD students 

2016                 Program committee member, Danish Bioinformatics meeting

PUBLIC OUTREACH

2019                 Interviewed for a Danish national radio series called Sygt nok

2019                 Organizer of a public meeting in Nuuk at the National Museum

2017                 Organizer of a public meeting in Nuuk 

2017                 Invited talk at Vin&Videnskab

2016                 Public talk for non-scientists at KDVS

2014-present   Several interviews in Danish and Greenlandic public media

LEADERSHIP COURSES

2019                 Leading Research – a leadership course, UCPH

2016                 Conflict management for leaders, workshop, UCPH

PUBLISHING STATISTICS (September 2024)

68 published/accepted peer-reviewed papers (15 in CNS)

Number citations in Scopus: 7598 (Google scholar: 12291)

H-index in Scopus: 34 (Google scholar H-index: 35)

The research in my group is focused on developing and applying statistical and computational methods to genomic data to answer questions within both population genetics and medical genetics. Within population genetics we are mainly aiming at gaining insights into how the human species evolved has and how the world was peopled. Within medical genetics we are mainly aiming at identifying genetic variants that play role in a number of different diseases and traits, such as type 2 diabetes, and at uncovering the underlying biological mechanism to gain biological insights. Importantly, to pursue these aims, we continuously develop new bioinformatics software tools, which we share freely with other researchers.