Alicia Lundby

Alicia Lundby

Affiliated Associate Professor, Professor with special responsibilities, Professor MSO

Member of:

    ORCID: 0000-0002-1612-6041

    Professor wsr, Department of Biomedical Sciences, UCPH.

    Education

    • June 2009: PhD in Health Sciences. Faculty of Medical and Health Sciences, University of Copenhagen. Advisor: Prof. Søren-Peter Olesen. Including research stay at RIKEN Brain Science Institute, Saitama, Japan.
    • Sep 2005: M.Sc. in Physics and Biophysics. The Niels Bohr Institute, Department of Physics, University of Copenhagen. Advisor: Prof. Stig Steenstrup. Research conducted at University of California at San Diego, USA.
    • July 2003: B.Sc. in Physics and Biophysics. The Niels Bohr Institute, Department of Physics, University of Copenhagen. Advisor: Ass. prof. Claus Helix Nielsen

    Current position

    • 2020-present: Professor wsr. Department of Biomedical Sciences, University of Copenhagen.

    Previous positions

    • 2015-2020: Associate professor. Department of Biomedical Sciences, University of Copenhagen. Affiliated associate professor of Novo Nordisk Foundation Center for Protein Research.
    • 2009-2011+: Post Doctoral Research Fellow in Quantitative Proteomics. Department of Proteomics, NNF
    • 2012-2015: Center for Protein Research, U. Copenhagen. Advisor: Prof. Jesper V. Olsen
    • 2011-2012: Post Doctoral Research Fellow in Human Population Genetics, The Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, Cambridge, USA. Advisor: Prof. Mark Daly
    • 2007-2008: Visiting scientist in voltage sensitive fluorescent proteins, RIKEN Brain Science Institute, Saitama, Japan. Advisor: Prof. Thomas Knöpfel
    • 2004-2005: Visting research student, ion channel research. Department of Biology, University of California at San Diego, USA. Advisor: Prof. Mauricio Montal

    Academic awards and honors 

    • 2020: Hallas-Møller Ascending Investigator Award
    • 2018: The Carlsberg Foundation Distinguished Associate Professorship
    • 2016: Sapere Aude Elite Research Leader by The Independent Research Fund Denmark
    • 2014: The Danish Council for Independent Research talent program YDUN
    • 2013: For Women in Science price by L’Oréal, UNESCO and The Royal Danish Academy of Sciences and Letters.
    • 2011: Member of The Young Academy, The Royal Danish Academy of Sciences and Letters.
    • 2011: Sapere Aude Young Elite Researcher by The Independent Research Fund Denmark
    • 2007: Talent award, The Lundbeck Foundation.
    • 2006: Selected participant at MBL Neurobiology Summer course, Woods Hole, USA.
    • 2006: Young Investigator Award, Health Sciences, UCPH
    • 2000: Finalist in “Worldwide Young Researchers for the Environment”.

    ID: 10426