Department of Chemistry

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Group Members

Academic Staff

Nils Anton Berglund

Assistant Professor
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Frank Jensen

Associate Professor
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Birgit Schiøtt

Professor, Head of Department
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Postdocs

Christian David Jørgensen

Postdoc
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Ilias Patmanidis

Postdoc
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Lorena Zuzic

Postdoc
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Ph.d. Students

Kasper Busk Pedersen

PhD Student
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Amanda Dyrholm Stange

PhD Student
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Masters Students

Lasse Desdorf

Mikkel Dahl Andreasen

Projektstuderende

Tommy Rosendahl

Sofie Thomsen



Alumni

2022

Ditlev Høj Hansen

  • Degree: M.Sc.
  • Project: Binding of allosteric modulators to the follicle-stimulating hormone receptor

Georg Baadsgaard Trolle

  • Degree: M.Sc.
  • Project: A Computational Investigation of the Re-purposing of a Glucagon-like Peptide-1 Receptor Agonist and Analogues for the Glucagon Receptor

Cecilie Hjernøe Sønnichsen

  • Degree: M.Sc.
  • Project: Challenges in simulating complex membranes containing cannabinoid receptor 1

Julie Aae Lorentsen

  • Degree: M.Sc.
  • Project: Computational studies of the interactions of SORT1 with NSG1 and NSG2 with and without ectodomains

2021

Lisbeth Thorup Ravnkilde

  • Degree: Ph.D.
  • Project: Computational modelling of the Glucagon receptor and Nanodiscs

2020

Rebekka Koch

  • Degree: M.Sc.
  • Project: Computational study of the dimerization of the 5-HT2A and 5-HT2C receptors

Talia Zeppelin

  • Degree: Ph.D.
  • Project: Computational Studies of the Human Monoamine Transporters

Pier Paolo Poier

  • Degree: Ph.D.
  • Project: Formulation and Development of a Novel Bond Capacity Charge Polarization Model

2019

Mikkel Christensen

  • Degree: Ph.D.
  • Project: Amyloids

2018

Anders Haagen Beck Frederiksen
  • Degree: M.Sc.
  • Project: Peptid dimerisering
Kristina Nyrup Kristensen
  • Degree: M.Sc.
  • Project: NMDA
Maximillian Alexandre Ambroise
  • Degree: M.Sc.
  • Project: Optimizing Basis Sets for Computational Core Level Spectroscopy

Lucy Kate Ladefoged

  • Degree: Ph.D.
  • Project: Computational modeling of the serotonergic synapse

2017

Balazs Nagy
  • Degree: Postdoc
  • Following employment: Research Associate at University of Szeged
  • Project: Polarizable forcefields
Xavier Periole
  • Degree: Postdoc
  • Project: Membrane proteins
Siri Søndergaard
  • Degree: Ph.D.
  • Following employment: IT Consultant at Netcompany
  • Project: G-Quadruplexes

2016

Anne Laustsen
  • Degree: M.Sc.
  • Following employment: Independent
  • Project: Enzymes
Ole Juul Andersen
  • Degree: Ph.D.
  • Following employment: IT consultant at Netcompany
  • Project: Serine Protease Inhibitor and amyloid formation
Julie Jungberg Grouleff
  • Degree: Ph.D.
  • Following employment: Technological Institute
  • Project: Neurotransmitters
Mikkel Vestergaard
  • Degree: Ph.D.
  • Following employment: IT Developer at BEC
  • Project: Antimicrobial peptides
Trine Kristensen
  • Degree: M.Sc.
  • Project: New inhibitors for the Serotonin Transporter

2015

Katrine Kirkeby Skeby
  • Degree: Ph.D.
  • Following employment: Postdoc at Digizyme
  • Project: Computational Modelling of human Islet Amyloid Polypeptide
Sheeba Jem Irudayam
  • Degree: Postdoc
  • Project: A-Beta fibrils
Sofie Jakobsen
  • Degree: Ph.D.
  • Following employment: Bioinformatic Scientist at QIAGEN
  • Project: Less is More: Reducing the Redundancy in Force Field Electrostatics
Renuka Jesuthasan
  • Degree: M.Sc.
  • Project: Abeta Fibrils

2013

Iwona Siuda
  • Degree: Ph.D.
  • Following employment: Postdoc at University of Calgary
  • Project: domELNEDIN, SERCA, Leucine Binding Protein and Saposin-like proteins
Maria Risager Jensen
  • Degree: M.Sc.
  • Following employment: Scientific assistant at Aarhus University 
  • Project: Statins as integrin ligand binding antagonists
Siri Øfsthus Goksøyr
  • Degree: B.Sc.
  • Project: Uncompetitive Inhibitor of Human Neutrophil Elastase with Computer Simulations
Jesper Hagelskjær
  • Degree: B.Sc.
  • Project: Prediction of the reaction rate for the oxidation of tryptophan via singlet oxygen by use of electron structure methods

2012

Heidi Koldsø
  • Degree: Ph.D.
  • Following employment: Postdoc at Oxford University
  • Project: hSERT and Fas4
Johan Frederik Kraft
  • Degree: Ph.D.
  • Following employment: Danske Bank
  • Project: Phenylpiperazine docking in hSERT and coarse-grain lipid- and peptide-simulations
Lea Thøgersen
  • Position: Associate Professor
  • Following employment: CLC bio
Kasper Monrad
  • Degree: B.Sc.

2011

Susanne Salzmann

  • Position: Postdoc
  • Following employment: Schrödinger (software company making programs for computer based chemistry)
  • Project: Complement Component System
Jesper Sørensen
  • Degree: Ph.D.
  • Following employment: Postdoc at UCSD (University of California, San Diego)
  • Project: Chymosin, lipid coarse grain and amyloid fibril formation
Maria Musgaard
  • Degree: Ph.D.
  • Following employment: Postdoc at Oxford University
  • Project: SERCA
Henriette  Elizabeth Autzen
  • Degree: M.Sc.
  • Following employment: Ph.D. student at the PUMPKIN Centre at Aarhus University
  • Project: The Human Serotonin Transporter
Mette Alstrup Lie
  • Position: Postdoc
  • Following employment: Postdoc at the Department of Physics and Astronomy at Aarhus University
  • Project: Attached Water Model
Rebecca Sørensen
  • Degree: B.Sc.
  • Project: Binding to DNA bases
Rune Carlsson
  • Degree: B.Sc.
  • Project: Complement Component System
Eleonora S. Paulsen
  • Degree: Visiting Ph.D. student from Farma at University of Copenhagen
  • Project: Thapsigargin and SERCA


2010

David S. Palmer
  • Position: Postdoc
  • Following employment: Postdoc at the Max-Planck Institute in Leipzig
  • Project: Chymosin and normal mode techniques
Thomas Krupsdal
  • Degree: M.Sc.
  • Following employment: CLC bio
  • Project: MVD/Glide Virtual Docking comparison
Kristoffer Basse
  • Degree: B.Sc.
  • Project: HIV protease
Peter Paulsen
  • Degree: B.Sc.
  • Following employment: Ph.D. student at the PUMPKIN Centre at Aarhus University
  • Project: Monoamine Transporters
Esben Fisker
  • Degree: B.Sc.
  • Project: MVD/Glide Virtual Screening comparison

2009

Anders U. Christensen
  • Degree: M.Sc.
  • Following employment: Aarhus University Hospital, High School Teacher
  • Project: Estrogen Receptor and Chymosin
Mia D. Christensen
  • Degree: M.Sc.
  • Following employment: High School Teacher
  • Project: SEAM
Mette Laursen
  • Degree: M.Sc.
  • Following employment: Ph.D. student at the PUMPKIN Centre at Aarhus University
  • Project: SERCA and glucosidase inhibitors

2008

Leyla Celik
  • Degree: Ph.D.
  • Following employment: Postdoc at Yale University
  • Project: Estrogen receptor and monoamine transporters

Søren R. Villadsen
  • Degree: B.Sc.
  • Project: Paroxetin
Lars V. Jespersen
  • Degree: B.Sc.
  • Project: Transthyretin

Jesper Møjbæk
  • Degree: B.Sc.
  • Following employment: CLC bio
  • Project: MVD/Glide comparison


2007

Simon T. Nielsen
  • Degree: M.Sc.
  • Following employment: High School Teacher
  • Project: Cyclodextrins and scaffolds
Dennis Christensen
  • Degree: B.Sc.
  • Project: Antimicrobial Peptides

2006

 

Julie D. D. Lund
  • Degree: M.Sc.
  • Following employment: High School Teacher, specialist at Arla
  • Project: Estrogen Receptor and EF-Tu
Søren S. Hansen
  • Degree: M.Sc.
  • Following employment: Ph.D. student at Farma at University of Copenhagen, Postdoc at the Panum Institute at University of Copenhagen
  • Project: Chitosan

Revised 04.01.2023