Leila Lo Leggio

CV

• July 1993: First class Honours Degree from the University of Bath, UK (professional placements at Babraham Institute, Cambridge, UK and Max-Planck Institute, Martinsried, München, Germany).
• March 1997: PhD obtained at Institute of Food Research, Reading, UK/Birkbeck College, London,
• April 1997-July 2003: Postdoctoral employment at Centre for Crystallographic Studies, Department of Chemistry, University of Copenhagen (funded by the Danish National Research Foundation, the EU and EMBO).
• August 2003-February 2018: Associate professor at the Department of Chemistry, University of Copenhagen.
• 2005-2012: Group leader of Biophysical Chemistry Group, Department of Chemistry, University of Copenhagen(Integrated in the Biophysical and Bioinorganic Chemistry Section in 2012)
• From Jan 2016: Section Leader, Biological Chemistry section
• From March 2018: Professor at the Department of Chemistry, University of Copenhagen
• 72 published or accepted peer reviewed articles, reviews and conference proceedings, 12 as first author, 31 as corresponding author. 10 additional publications
• 2818 Web of Science (WoS) and 4311 Google Scholar (GS) citations, 41 cites/article on WoS, H-I of 22 from WoS and 28 from GS, i10index from GS of 49, i100 index from GS of 1
• Author of 86 PDB entries

Primære forskningsområder

Undervisnings- og vejledningsområder

• Adjunktpædagogikum obtained in August 2003
• Teaching in various Protein Chemistry, Crystallography, Biophysical Chemistry, Biological Chemistry and General Chemistry courses at undergraduate and master level
• Co-organizer and teacher of several editions of the annual PhD Course in Protein Crystallography at the Department of Chemistry, University of Copenhagen. Teacher in 2005 in the PhD Course in Biophysical Chemistry, at the Department of Chemistry, University of Copenhagen. Teacher in 3^rd Edition of VLAG Graduate School Course in Food Enzymology, Wageningen, Holland, 11-13 February 2008
• Currently main supervisor of 2 postdoctoral researchers, 2 PhD students, 3 MSc students
• Previously main supervisor of 4 postdoctoral researchers, 7 PhD student, 17 M.Sc. students, 10 Bachelor students and 6 foreign guest students at different stages in their studies.

Aktuel forskning

Recent grants

• Grant holder of Novo Nordisk Foundation grant “Structure-based engineering of glucuronoyl esterases for separation of lignin and carbohydrates” (2018-2020, 3.3 million DKK, own share 1.5 million DKK)
• Co-applicant of PhD grant for Anders K. Varming from Lundbeck Foundation (2018-2020, 1.6 million DKK)
• Co-PI for Novo Nordisk Foundation grant HOPE “Harnessing the Oxidative Power of Enzymes” (2017-2022, own share 2.9 million DKK)
• PI for Villum experiment project ’A universal approach for structure determination of peptides/medium size proteins by X-ray diffraction’ (2017-2019, 1.9 million DKK)
• Grant holder for FNU funded project ‘Molecular mechanisms and structural dynamics in the TP901-1 genetic switch and related pathogen systems’ (2015-2018, 2.5 million DKK)