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Current research

• High-Throughput Mapping of Antibody Sequences to Antigen Specificity in Malaria
• Monoclonal antibody discovery against P. falciparum antigens during natural infection and vaccination

• B cell responses

• Naturally acquired immunity to malaria in pregnant women.

Fields of interest

• Monoclonal antibodies in infectious diseases (malaria and influenza)
• Naturally acquired immunity to P. falciparum malaria
• Immuno-evasion and pathogenesis of malaria
• Malaria parasite biology and host-parasite interaction

Teaching

Master courses 

-Immunology and Microbiology, University of Copenhagen.

-The Immune defence and Cancer, University of Copenhagen.

Bachelor courses 

-Cellular and Molecular Immunology, University of Copenhagen.

Education

PhD in Biomedical Sciences. Karolinska Institutet.

MSc in Biochemistry. Universidad Nacional de Colombia.

BSc in Biology. Universidad Nacional de Colombia. 

Positions (last five years)

2021-          Assistant Professor (externally funded, non-tenure track), Centre for translational Medicine and Parasitology, University of Copenhagen, Denmark.

2022-2023  Visiting Faculty (Marie Curie Global Fellow), Vanderbilt Center for Antibody Therapeutics/Vanderbilt Vaccine Center, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, USA.

2017-2021  Postdoc, Centre for translational Medicine and Parasitology, University of Copenhagen. Copenhagen, Denmark.  

Mentoring and supervision of students

PhD students: co-supervisor of two students from the University of Ghana in collaboration with the University of Copenhagen. 

Master students: main and co-supervisor of two students in the Immunology and Inflammation program, University of Copenhagen. 

Bachelor students: co-supervisor of one student in the Biology program, University of Copenhagen. 

Technician trainees: main supervisor of two students from Metropol Professionhojskole

Current research

• High-Throughput Mapping of Antibody Sequences to Antigen Specificity in Malaria

• Subclasses, effector functions and cross-reactivity of the acquired VAR2CSA-specific IgG response to placental Plasmodium falciparum infection

Primary fields of research

• Molecular parasitology with deep interest in parasite-host interactions
• Plasmodium derived antigens exported to the surface of the infected erythrocyte 
• Plasmodium proteins involved in merozoite invasion

Possible conflicts of interest

None