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Curatorial responsibilities

Curator of: Acanthocephala, Gnathostomulida, Kinorhyncha, Micrognathozoa, Nematoda, Nematomorpha, Priapulida, Rotifera, Mollusca, Porifera og Cnidaria.

Professional duties

SYNTHESYS+ koordinator for DK-TAF

Editorial duties

Subject editor for Zoologischer Anzeiger and Marine Biology Research

Editor for Proceedings of the International Scalidophora Workshops (Ferrol 2015), (Pontal do Sul 2019)

Current research

 1) Kinorhynch taxonomy and systematics:

             - Revision of the Echinoderes dujardinii species group

             - Interactive identification key for Echinoderidae

             - Kinorhynchs from the Gulf of Mexico, Caribbean, India, Hawaii, etc

             - Deep-sea Kinorhyncha

2) Host for Marie Curie fellow Maria Herranz (Project: KinoRoot):

             - The evolution of kinorhynch segmentation

             - Nervous and muscular systems in kinorhynchs

             - Transcriptomic kinorhynch phylogeny

3) Morphological studies of microscopic invertebrates: Loricifera, Priapulida, Gnathostomulida, Rotifera, Micrognathozoa, a.o.

4) Metazoan phylogeny and evolution

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Education

Jul. 12, 1998   MSc-degree awarded at the Zoological Museum, U. Copenhagen. Project title: Aspects of the Rotifer Phylogeny, Taxonomy, and Trophi-morphology - with Special Reference to the Greenlandic Rotifers

Nov. 14, 2001  Ph.D.-degree awarded at the Zoological Museum, U. Copenhagen. Project title: On the Phylogeny and Jaw Evolution of Gnathifera

Sep. 2008       Graduate "Higher University Teaching" course (DK: adjunktpædagogikum), U. Copenhagen.

Employment

2002 - 03  Postdoc on the Invertebrate Department, Zoological Museum, U. Copenhagen (Carlsberg Foundation grants no. ANS-0178/20 and ANS-0724/20)

2004         Postdoc in Giribet Laboratory, Dept. Organismic and Evolutionary Biology, Harvard University (Danish Natural Science Research Council grant no. 21-03-0361)

2005 - 08  Postdoc in Ancient DNA and Evolution Group, Dept. of Biology, U. Copenhagen (Danish Natural Science Research Council Steno Stipend; grant no.: 21-04-0331)

2008         Postdoc in Ancient DNA and Evolution Group, Dept. of Biology, U. Copenhagen (Danish Natural Science Research Council; grant no.: 2136-07-0064)

2008 - 10      Postdoc at the Invertebrate Department, Natural History Museum of Denmark, U. Copenhagen

2010 - present      Associate professor and curator at Natural History Museum of Denmark, U. Copenhagen

Primary fields of research

Teaching

Marine invertebrates: morphology, biology, evolution, spring (gradulate course).

Evolutionary biology, spring (undergraduate course).