Jacob Judas Kain Kirkensgaard

Associate Professor

  • Universitetsparken 5, bygn. D

    2100 København Ø

  • Rolighedsvej 26

    1958 Frederiksberg C

Personal profile

Short presentation

My background is from soft matter and polymer physics and my main expertise is small-angle x-ray and neutron scattering techniques - both experimentally and in terms of advanced data analysis and computational modeling. My own research is centred around mesoscale self-assembly and the formation of geometrically and topologically complex structures in soft matter systems ranging from fundamental studies of polymers to biological membranes, food and colloids, farmaceutical systems, energy applications and much more. 

I am heading the Structural Food Physics and Soft Matter Self-Assembly group at the University of Copenhagen (UCph) Nanoscience Center employed in a joint position between the Dept. Of Food Science and the Niels Bohr Institute. I have also initiated and head the CXC - the Cross-disciplinary X-ray Center which now runs all SAXS infrastructure at the SCIENCE faculty at UCph. Further, I am the UCph branch manager for LINX and thus part of the connection between danish industry and the new large scale facilities in Lund, MAX-IV and ESS where I have tight connections as a fellow and work group leader of the swedish LINXS. 

Find out more at my personal website or on my Nano-Science Center group page

 

 

Teaching

 

Food Physics [2020-present]

Together with Amin Doostmohammadi from NBI I am course responsible and joint main lecturer on the first year course on Food Physics on the Food Science education at University of Copenhagen.
 

Neutron Scattering [2020-present]

I lecture about SANS on the Niels Bohr Institute master course on Neutron Scattering.

Experimental X-ray Physics [2021-present]

I lecture about SAXS on the Niels Bohr Institute master course on Experimental X-ray Physics.

Structural Tools in Nanoscience [2022-present]

I lecture about x-ray and neutron scattering on the Nano-science master course Structural Tools in Nanoscience.

Liquid Food Processing [2019-2023]

I was course responsible and main lecturer on the third year course on Liquid Food Production on the Food Science education at University of Copenhagen.

Linear Algebra and Classical Mechanics (Mat N) [2015-2018]

I was course responsible and main lecturer on the first year course on Linear Algebra and Classical Mechanics (Mat N) on the Nano-Science education at University of Copenhagen.
 

PhD schools

I am organiser and lecturer of the PhD-School Small-angle scattering: Principles, data analysis and advanced modeling together with Martin Cramer Pedersen and Andreas Haahr Larsen.

Together with Martin Cramer Pedersen, Stephen Hyde, Myf Evans and Gerd Schröder-Turk I have organized four versions of International Summer School on "Geometry and Topology in Contemporary Material Science last held August 6-12, 2022 at the Niels Bohr Institute, Copenhagen.

Together with Gerd Schröder-Turk I organised and lectured on the International PhD School on 'SELF-ASSEMBLY OF BIOMOLECULES AND SOFT MATERIALS: LINKING EXPERIMENTAL AND COMPUTATIONAL TECHNIQUES FOR STRUCTURE AND TOPOLOGY INVESTIGATIONS' held June 6-14, 2019 at the Dept. of Food Science, University of Copenhagen.

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Education:

2021 UCPH ’Leading research’ leadership program

2021 UCPH 'PhD Supervision' course

 2013 UCPH 'Adjunktpædagogikum for SCIENCE'

2010 Ph.D, Polymer Physics, University of Copenhagen, Denmark.

2005 Cand.Scient, Physics and Mathematics, Roskilde University, Denmark.

Keywords

  • Faculty of Science
  • Small-Angle X-Ray Scattering
  • Small-Angle Neutron Scattering
  • Soft Matter Self-Assembly
  • Coarse-Grained Molecular Simulations

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