Morten Schak Nielsen

Short presentation

Morten Schak Nielsen is head of the Gap Junction Group at the Department of Biomedical Sciences.

Primary fields of research

• Cardiac Arrhythmia

• Gap junctions

• Conductance disturbances associated with ischemia, metabolic syndrome and diabetes

CV

Education:

1994              Cand.scient. (M.Sc.) in biology.

1999              Ph.D. Scient.

Employment

1999-2003     Assistant research professor at Department of Medical Physiology, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Copenhagen

2003-2009     Associate research professor at Department of Biomedical Sciences, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Copenhagen

2009-present Associate professor (Faculty) at Department of Biomedical Sciences, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Copenhagen

Administrative work

2004-present Group leader in the Gap Junction Group at Department of Biomedical Sciences

2011-2018 Chairman of the Danish Cardiovascular Research Academy (DaCRA)

2011-2018 Chairman of the cardiovascular graduate program under the PhD school of Health Sciences, University of Copenhagen

2012              Member of evaluation committee for Assistant Professorship at University of Southern Denmark

2009              Member of the local organizing committee for the Joint Meeting of the Scandinavian and German Physiological Societies 2010, Copenhagen, Denmark

2009              Member of the program committee for the International Gap Junction Conference 2009, Sedona, AZ, USA

2007              Member of the local organizing and program committee for the International Gap Junction Conference 2007, Elsinore, Denmark

Reviewer duties:

Heart Rhythm, Pflügers Archiv, Clinical and Experimental Pharmacology and Physiology, DNA and Cell Biology, Journal of Immunological Methods, BMC Cancer.

Teaching

Pregraduate:

Course in Excitable Cells

Course in Heart and Lungs

Human Anathomy and Systems Physiology

Cardiac Physiology

Supervision in medical bachelor thesis, and project thesis at Course in Advanced Cell Biology"

Postgraduate:

Cardiac Physiology

Cardiovascular Summer School

Cardiac arrhythmias: Pathophysiological mechanisms and interventions

PhD supervisor