Short presentation

Lars Juhl Jensen started his research career in Søren Brunak’s group at the Technical University of Denmark (DTU), from which he in 2002 received the Ph.D. degree in bioinformatics for his work on non-homology based protein function prediction. During this time, he also developed methods for visualization of microbial genomes, pattern recognition in promoter regions, and microarray analysis. From 2003 to 2008, he was at the European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL) where he worked on literature mining, integration of large-scale experimental datasets, and analysis of biological interaction networks. Since the beginning of 2009, he has continued this line of research as a professor at the Novo Nordisk Foundation Center for Protein Research at the Panum Institute in Copenhagen and as a co-founder and scientific advisor of Intomics A/S. He is a co-author of more than 170 scientific publications that have in total received more than 20,000 citations. He was awarded the Lundbeck Foundation Talent Prize in 2003, his work on cell-cycle research was named “Break-through of the Year” in 2006 by the magazine Ingeniøren, his work on text mining won the first prize in the “Elsevier Grand Challenge: Knowledge Enhancement in the Life Sciences” in 2009, and he was awarded the Lundbeck Foundation Prize for Young Scientists in 2010.

Possible conflicts of interest

Lars Juhl Jensen is member of the Board of Experts at Intomics A/S.

CV

Lars Juhl Jensen

Current position
Feb. 2009–:

Research professor, CPR, Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences, University of Copenhagen

Previous positions
Feb. 2006–Jan. 2009:

Staff scientist, EMBL, Heidelberg, Germany

Jan. 2005–Jan. 2006:

Scientist, EMBL, Heidelberg, Germany

Jan. 2003–Dec. 2004:

Postdoc, EMBL, Heidelberg, Germany

Aug. 2002–Dec. 2002:

Research assistant, Center for Biological Sequence Analysis, Technical University of Denmark, Kongens Lyngby, Denmark

Aug. 1999–Jul. 2002:

Graduate student, Center for Biological Sequence Analysis, Technical University of Denmark, Kongens Lyngby, Denmark

Jun. 1999–Jul. 1999:

Research assistant, Center for Biological Sequence Analysis, Technical University of Denmark, Kongens Lyngby, Denmark

Mar. 1996–May 1999:

Student assistant, Enzyme Design, Novo Nordisk A/S, Bagsvaerd, Denmark

Jul. 1995:

Student assistant, Medchem Research IV, Novo Nordisk A/S, Bagsvaerd, Denmark

Jul. 1994:

Student assistant, Medchem Research IV, Novo Nordisk A/S, Bagsvaerd, Denmark

Education
Oct. 2002:

PhD in Bioinformatics, Technical University of Denmark, Kongens Lyngby, Denmark

Aug. 1999–Jul. 2002:

Graduate student with Professor Søren Brunak, Center for Biological Sequence Analysis, Technical University of Denmark, Kongens Lyngby, Denmark 
Project title: Prediction of protein function from sequence-derived protein features

Sep. 1994–May 1999:

BSc and MSc in Chemistry, Center for Biological Sequence Analysis, Technical University of Denmark, Kongens Lyngby, Denmark
Project title: Sequence analysis of yeast promoters

Research awards

2014-2017:

ISI/Clarivate Analytics Highly Cited Researchers     

2010:

Jorck Foundation Prize

2010:

Lundbeck Foundation Young Scientist Prize

2009:

Winner of the Elsevier Grand Challenge: Knowledge Enhancement in the Life Sciences

2006:

Ingeniørens Breakthrough of the Year

2003:

Lundbeck Foundation Talent Prize