Primary fields of research

• Microbial behavior in complex environments.
• The association between the mammalian gut microbiome (GM), health and disease and how GM is influenced by diet, pre- and probiotics (in vivo and in vitro).
• The role of bacteriophages in the gastrointestinal tract
• Targeted interventions to manipulate the gut microbiome (bacteriophages etc.)
• Fermented Foods (cocoa, wine, coffee, indigenous fermented foods, fermentation as flavour enhancer, fermentation as a tool to improve nutritional value)
• Rapid methods for culture-dependent and culture-independent (qPCR, high throughput sequencing) characterisation of complex microbiological communities.
• Coupling of bioinformatic and chemical/spectroscopic data using multivariate data analysis.

Teaching

• Responsible for the course ”Basal Cell and Molecular Biology” (BSc-level)
• Co-responsible for the courses ’’Cool Climate Viticulture and Enology” og ”Applied ’Cool Climate Viticulture and Enology” (MSc-level).
• Lecturer on several microbiology B.Sc., M.Sc. and Ph.D. courses.
• Supervisor and co-supervisor on numerous B.Sc. and M.Sc. projects. Main supervisor of 10+ PhD-students 

CV

Education:

2008:           “Adjunktkursus” (Teaching at University level for Assistant Professors and similar), Danish University of Education (DPU)
2006:           Ph.D. Food Science, KVL
2002:           M.Sc. Food Science & Technology, KVL
2000:           B.Sc. Food Science & Technology, KVL.

Scientific positions:

2017-                Professor (MSO), Dept. Food Science, UCPH

2010-17            Associate Professor, Dept. of Food Science, UCPH             

2009-10            Assistant Professor, Dept. of Food Science, UCPH              

2007-09            Post Doc, Dept. of Food Science, UCPH

2003-06            Ph.D.-student, Dept. of Food Science, KVL

2004-05            Guest Researcher, Bundesforschungsanstalt für Ernährung, Karlsruhe, Germany

2002-03            Research Assistant, Dept. of Food Science, KVL