Nicole Schmitt

2017 onwards

Professor with special responsibilities within Blended Learning and Engagement in Education at the Dept. of Biomedical Sciences, SUND, UCPH

2012 - 2017

Associate professor – tenured – at BMI, SUND, UCPH

2011 - 2012

Junior Group Leader at BMI, SUND, UCPH

2009 – 2012

Associate Professor (Danish title: lektor) - non-tenured - at the Danish National Research Foundation Centre for Cardiac Arrhythmia (DARC), SUND, UCPH

2005 – 2009

Associate Research Professor (Danish title: forskningslektor), DARC, SUND, UCPH

2002 – 2005

Assistant Professor (Danish title: adjunkt), Dept. of Medical Physiology, SUND, UCPH

2000 – 2002

Post.doc in Prof. Olaf Pongs’ laboratory, Institute of Neuronal Signal Transduction, Centre of Molecular Neurobiology, Hamburg, Germany

1997 – 2000

PhD (Dr. rer. nat.) at the University of Hamburg, Germany

1990 – 1996

MSc in Biochemistry at the University of Hannover, Germany

2016 onwards

Vice Head of Department for Education at the Dept. of Biomedical Sciences
I am responsible for building a sustainable teaching framework to secure quality of education. Amongst others, my activities comprise organizing workshops for peers, postdocs and PhD students to share experiences and identify best practice, reviewing course evaluations and budgets, reviewing and monitoring teaching activities, and teacher recruitment.

2015 onwards

Member of the Department’s Leadership Team (ILT)
My activities include, amongst others, advising the Head of Department, partaking in departmental strategy planning and development of action plans.

2015 - 2017

Section manager of the Heart & Circulatory research section at the Dept. of Biomedical Sciences (section structure at department discontinued in April 2017)

2011 onwards

Group leader (varying group size, 4-10 scientific and technical personnel).
Through engaged research management, I ensure that my research group is active with regards to research, academic visibility, teaching, and fund raising. I safeguard my group members’ adherence to rules and guidelines for work environment and scientific integrity. I am responsible for the personal and professional development of my staff and conduct annual performance and development reviews.

2008 -2017

Daily leader of the Ion Channel Group (cluster of several senior scientists)

2019 onwards

Member of Steering Group for a new study administration platform
– appointed by the Pro-Rector for Education at UCPH –

2019 onwards

Member of “UCPH Steering Group for Information Security”
- appointed  by the Rector of UCPH -  

2016 onwards

Department representative in the Educational Councils for Medicine and Public Health (Uddannelsesråd for Sundhed og Medicin, Uddannelsesråd for Folkesundhedsvidenskaberne)

2015 onwards

UCPH representative in the National Forum for Research Data Management

2015 onwards

Faculty representative  in UCPH reference group for data management
– appointed by the Vice-Dean for Research at SUND –

2015 – 2016

Chairperson of TASK FORCE Data Management as per the Danish Code of Conduct for Research Integrity at SUND
The task force delivered the SUND policy for data management,an implementation plan/road map, and recommendations for introduction of an Electronic Laboratory Notebook at the Faculty

2013 – 2015

Co-chair - elected - of the Department Council (Institutråd) of the Dept. of Biomedical Sciences
The Council was the driving force behind the implementation of faculty strategy at departmental level. The Council had the responsibility to ensure integration of employees and students in the decision making process.

2012 – 2018

Scientific board member of the SUND seminar series “World Experts in Health and Medical Sciences” at the Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences
Faculty spanning seminar series to support academic development in students as well as creating cross-sector collaborations, discontinued in Dec 2018.

2019

• EHRA Congress - European Heart Rhythm Association, Lisbon, Portugal

2017

• ESC Congress - European Society of Cardiology, Barcelona, Spain
• FASEB Summer Research Conference “Ion Channel Regulation”, Colorado, USA
• 42nd International School of Biophysics, Erice, Sicily, Italy
• University of California San Francisco Medical Center, CA, USA

2015

• National Center of Competence in Research TransCure at the University of Bern, Switzerland
• FASEB Summer Research Conference “Ion Channel Regulation”, Big Sky, Montana, USA
• “Colloquia in Cellular Physiology” at the Medical University Vienna, Austria

2014

• Scientific Sessions of the American Heart Association, Chicago, IL, USA
• University of California San Francisco Medical Center, CA, USA
• University of California Irvine at the Dept. for Biological Sciences, CA, USA 
• Invited Chair of a Session “Ion Channels” at the 4th Sigtuna Meeting of the Membrane Transport Group of the Scandinavian Physiological Society, Sigtuna Stiftelsen, Sweden
• Chair (and organizer) of a Session “New physiological roles for known transmembrane proteins” at the Annual Meeting of the Scandinavian Physiological Society, Stockholm, Sweden

2013

• Conference “Heidelberg Channels 2013”, University of Heidelberg, Germany
• Invited Chair of Session “Channels and Transporters” at the 9th European Biophysics Congress EBSA, Lisbon, Portugal
• FASEB Summer Research Conference “Ion Channel Regulation”, Nassau, Bahamas
• 45^th Meeting on Membrane Transport, Sandbjerg Manor, Sønderborg, Denmark
• Deutsche Klinik für Diagnostik, Wiesbaden, Germany
• “Ion Channels Conference”, Jämtland, Sweden

2012

• Gordon Research Conference "Ion channels", South Hadley, MA, USA