| Name: | Lars Juhl Jensen |
| Born: | 18. May 1975 in Glostrup, Denmark |
| Citizenship: | Danish |
| Address: | Schillerstr. 4-8, Wohnung 13 D-69115 Heidelberg, Germany |
| Phone: | +49 (6221) 387 296 (office) |
| Fax: | +49 (6221) 387 519 |
| E-mail: | Use this link to send me an email |
| Dec. 2007 | - | : | Honorary research professor at the Novo Nordisk Foundation Center for Protein Research. |
| Feb. 2006 | - | : | Staff scientist in the Bork group at EMBL-Heidelberg. |
| Jan. 2005 | - | Jan. 2006: | Scientist in the Bork group at EMBL-Heidelberg. |
| Jan. 2003 | - | Dec. 2004: | Postdoc in the Bork group at EMBL-Heidelberg. |
| Aug. 2002 | - | Dec. 2002: | Research assistant at CBS, DTU. |
| Aug. 1999 | - | Jul. 2002: | Graduate student at CBS, DTU. |
| Jun. 1999 | - | Jul. 1999: | Research assistant at CBS, DTU. |
| Mar. 1996 | - | May 1999: | Student assistant at Enzyme Design, Novo Nordisk A/S. |
| Jul. 1995: | Student assistant at Medchem Research IV, Novo Nordisk A/S. | ||
| Jul. 1994: | Student assistant at Medchem Research IV, Novo Nordisk A/S. |
| Oct. 2002: | Awarded the Ph.D. degree from the Technical University of Denmark (DTU). | ||
| Aug. 1999 | - | Jul. 2002: | Graduate student with Professor Søren Brunak at the Center for Biological Sequence Analysis (CBS). Project title: "Prediction of Protein Function from Sequence Derived Protein Features". |
| May 1999: | Master of Chemistry from the Technical University of Denmark (DTU). The final project was done with Dr. Steen Knudsen as supervisor at CBS. Project title: "Sequence analysis of yeast promoters". | ||
| Sep. 1994 | - | May 1999: | Undergraduate student at DTU. |
| Jun. 1994: | Danish Matematisk Studentereksamen from Gladsaxe Gymnasium. |
During my relatively short career I have worked on a broad range of bioinformatics topics including analysis of DNA expression data, discovery of transcription factor binding sites, whole genome visualization, protein function prediction, and latest text mining. The vast majority of the projects I have been involved in have been team efforts. This has giving me the opportunity to collaborate with experts in many areas and gain experience with many different bioinformatics tools. This includes working with machine learning algorithms, in particular artificial neural networks but also hidden Markov models and support vector machines.
I have been programming for years in a large number of different programming languages in particular C, C++, Perl, Awk and Visual Basic. I have years of practice working on various UNIX platforms - mainly OS X, Linux and IRIX. This work includes serving as backup system administrator on the large SGI installation at CBS.
Although UNIX is my main platform, I have experience using a wide range of tools and software packages under Microsoft Windows too.
While being a graduate student I gave quite a few lectures in different bioinformatics courses at both graduate and undergraduate levels. The topics on which I have been lecturing are: general introduction to bioinformatics, methods for sequence alignment and sequence similarity searches, use of the SRS database query system, protein function prediction and text mining.
In addition my native tongue, Danish, I am fluent in English both written and spoken. I generally understand German and speak the language to some extent too. As a consequence of speaking Danish I can also understand Swedish and Norwegian.
Ingeniørens "Årets Gennembrud" 2006 (Ingeniøren's "Breakthrough of the Year" 2006)
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Lundbeckfondens Talentpris 2003 (The Lundbeck Foundation Talent Prize 2003)
The prize is awarded annually to three young researchers who have shown outstanding research results within medicin or the natural sciences.
Please see separate page for a list of my publications and presentations.