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ResearcherID: E-1215-2015

Scopus ID: 35511536800

Knowledge of languages

Danish (mother tongue), English (fluent), German (once fluent), Spanish (basic)

CV

         Degress and positions held

• 2024-now: Full professor, Section of Human and Molecular Physiology, Department of Nutrition, Exercise and Sports, University of Copenhagen.
• 2013-2024: Associate professor, Section of Molecular Physiology(MOLPHYS), Department of Nutrition, Exercise and Sports, University of Copenhagen.
• 2009 – 2012: Danish Research Council post doctoral fellowship, MOLPHYS

• 2010 – 2011: Post doctoral fellow, Program of Cell Biology (Principal investigator Amira Klip), Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto.

• 2005 - 2008: PhD in skeletal muscle cell signaling and glucose metabolism (supervisor Erik A. Richter), MOLPHYS.

• Sep 2002-Jul 2003: M.Sc. in Exercise Physiology. Masters project at the Garvan Institute of Medical Research, Sydney, Australia (supervisors David E. James and Erik A. Richter).

  Research interests
  Cell signaling; exercise; skeletal muscle;hypertrophy;atrophy; actin; mTORC1;AMPK;Rac1;actin;mass spectrometry;microscopy

Primary fields of research

Skeletal muscle is a plastic tissue that responds and adapts to external stimuli during physical activity and inactivity. Increased knowledge of the molecular signaling mechanisms that control this adaptation is not only important for understanding how the muscle reacts to work and training, but also lifestyle and aging-related diseases such as diabetes, obesity and cancer.

Teaching

Current research

See NEXS research profile

https://nexs.ku.dk/english/research/the-august-krogh-section-for-molecular-physiology/muscle-growth-and-metabolism/

For possible student projects and other possibilities, contact [email protected]