Protein Biophysics at DTU Bioengineering

Prof. Alexander Kai Buell (Ph.D.)

Principal Investigator

Technical University of Denmark, Søltofts Plads, Building 227, 2800 Kgs. Lyngby

Prof. Alexander K. Buell, PhD studied Biochemistry and general Chemistry in Tübingen (2002-2004) and general Chemistry as well as Physical and Theoretical Chemistry in Paris (2004-2007). He performed his PhD research in Biophysics in the Nanoscience Centre of the University of Cambridge under the supervision of Prof. Sir Mark E. Welland (2008-2011). He then obtained several competitive personal fellowships to perform postdoctoral work in the Chemistry department of the University of Cambridge (2011-2015). From October 2015 to March 2019, he was Assistant Professor for the Aggregation of Amyloid Proteins at the University of Düsseldorf. Since April 2019, Alexander is Full Professor of Protein Biophysics at the department of Biotechnology and Biomedicine at the Technical University of Denmark.

Selected fellowships and awards:

– The 2016 Young Investigator Award of the German Society for Biophysics

– The Biochemical Society 2017 Early Career Research Award for Biotechnology

– Young leaders in science program of the Schering Foundation (2016/2017)

– FEBS travel fellowship to visit LMU Munich (03-05/2014)

– Leverhulme Trust Early Career Fellowship (2013-2015)

– Thomas Nevile research fellowship at Magdalene College, Cambridge (2011-2014)

– Daniel Turnberg travel fellowship to visit the University of Tel Aviv (09/2011)

– EMBO short term fellowship to visit the University of Aarhus (07-08/2011)

Soumik Ray (Ph.D.)

Assistant Professor (2025-present)

Department of Biotechnology and Biomedicine, Section for Protein Chemistry and Enzyme Technology

Technical University of Denmark, Søltofts Plads, Building 227, 2800 Kgs. Lyngby

Academic History:

Bachelor’s degree: Microbiology (Hons.), St. Xavier´s University, Calcutta, India (2010-2013).

Master’s degree: Biochemistry, University of Hyderabad, India (2013-2015).

Ph.D.: Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay, India (2015-2021).

PostDoc: Technical University of Denmark, Denmark (2021-2025).

Jacob Aunstrup Larsen (Ph.D.)

Postdoc (2024-Present)

Technical University of Denmark, Søltofts Plads, Building 227, 2800 Kgs. Lyngby

Academic History:

Bachelor’s degree: Nanotechnology, Aalborg University, Denmark (2014-2017).

Master’s degree: Nanobiotechnology, Aalborg University, Denmark (2017-2019).

Research Assistant: Protein Biophysics Group, Technical University of Denmark, Denmark (October 2020 – December 2020).

Ph.D.: Technical University of Denmark, Denmark (2021-2024).

Sophie Hertel (Ph.D.)

Postdoc (2023-present)

Technical University of Denmark, Søltofts Plads, Building 227, 2800 Kgs. Lyngby.

Academic History:

Bachelor’s degree: Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, University of Potsdam, Germany.

Master’s degree: Biochemistry, University of Potsdam, Germany.

Ph.D.: EMBL Node, UNSW Sydney, Australia.

PostDoc: EMBL Node, UNSW Sydney, Australia.

Rasmus Krogh Norrild (Ph.D.)

Postdoc (2023-present)

Technical University of Denmark, Søltofts Plads, Building 227, 2800 Kgs. Lyngby

Academic History:

Bachelor’s degree: Biochemistry, University of Copenhagen, Denmark (2014-2017).

Master’s degree: Biochemistry, University of Copenhagen, Denmark (2017-2019).

Ph.D.: Technical University of Denmark, Denmark (2020-2023).

Hossein Mohammad-Beigi (Ph.D.)

Research Manager (2024-present)

Technical University of Denmark, Søltofts Plads, Building 227, 2800 Kgs. Lyngby

Academic History:

Bachelor’s degree: Chemical Engineering, Isfahan University of Technology, Iran (2004-2008).

Master’s degree: Chemical Engineering, Sharif University of Technology, Iran (2008-2010).

PhD: Tarbiat Modares University, Iran (2011-2015).

Postdoc: Århus University (2016-2020) and Technical University of Denmark, Denmark (2020-2024).

Antonin Kunka (Ph.D.)

Postdoctoral fellow (2022-present)

Technical University of Denmark, Søltofts Plads, Building 227, 2800 Kgs. Lyngby

Academic History:

Bachelor’s degree: Biochemistry, Masaryk University Brno, Czech Republic (2011-2014).

Master’s degree: Biochemistry, Masaryk University Brno, Czech Republic (2014-2016).

PhD: Masaryk University, Brno, Czech Republic.

Seyedazad Farzadfard (Ph.D.)

Postdocatoral fellow

Technical University of Denmark, Søltofts Plads, Building 227, 2800 Kgs. Lyngby

Academic History:

Bachelor’s degree: Biological Sciences, Damghan University, Iran (2007-2011).

Master’s degree: Cell and molecular biology, University of Tehran, Iran (2011-2014).

Ph.D.: Århus University, Denmark.

Tom Mason (Ph.D.)

Postdoctoral fellow (2021-present)

Technical University of Denmark, Søltofts Plads, Building 227, 2800 Kgs. Lyngby

Academic History:

Master’s degree: Natural Sciences, University of Cambridge, United Kingdom (2011-2012).

Ph.D.: University of Cambridge, United Kingdom (2012-2016).

Postdoc: Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel.

Georgia Nasi (Ph.D.)

Postdoctoral fellow (2024-present)

Technical University of Denmark, Søltofts Plads, Building 227, 2800 Kgs. Lyngby

Academic History:

Bachelor’s degree: Biology, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece (2012-2016).

Master’s degree: Bioinformatics, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece (2016-2019).

Research Assistant: Biophysics lab, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece (2022-2023).

Ph.D.: National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece.

Justin Evan Miller (Ph.D.)

Postdoctoral fellow (2025-present)

Technical University of Denmark, Søltofts Plads, Building 227, 2800 Kgs. Lyngby

Academic History:

Bachelor’s degree: Microbiology, Immunology and Molecular Genetics, University of California Los Angeles, USA (2013-2017).

Ph.D.: Molecular Biology Institute, University of California Los Angeles, USA (2017-2023).

PostDoc.: Los Alamos National Laboratory, Bioscience Division, USA (2024-2025).

Jez Vibeizonuo Rupreo (Ph.D.)

Postdoctoral fellow (2026-present)

Technical University of Denmark, Søltofts Plads, Building 227, 2800 Kgs. Lyngby

Academic History:

Bachelor’s degree: Chemistry, Kohima Science College, India.

Ph.D.: National Institute of Technology Nagaland, India (2020-2025).

Maša Bicanin

Ph.D. Scholar (2024-present)

Technical University of Denmark, Søltofts Plads, Building 227, 2800 Kgs. Lyngby

Academic History:

Bachelor’s degree: Biochemistry, University of Belgrade, Serbia (2018-2022).

Master’s degree: Biochemistry, University of Belgrade, Serbia (2022-2024).

Celia Fricke

Ph.D. Scholar (2023-present)

Technical University of Denmark, Søltofts Plads, Building 227, 2800 Kgs. Lyngby

Academic History:

Bachelor’s degree: Biochemistry, Technical University of Munich, Germany (2017-2020).

Master’s degree: Biochemistry, Technical University of Munich, Germany, and Lund Univerisity, Sweden (2020-2023).

Federica Saraceno

Ph.D. Scholar (2024-present)

Technical University of Denmark, Søltofts Plads, Building 227, 2800 Kgs. Lyngby

Academic History:

Bachelor’s degree: Bioengineering, Polytechnical School of Brussels, Belgium (2018-2021).

Master’s degree: Protein Engineering, Technical University of Denmark, Denmark (2021-2024).

Research Assistant: Protein Biophysics Group, Technical University of Denmark, Denmark (May 2024 – August 2024).

Lars Boyens-Thiele

Ph.D. Scholar (2022-present)

Technical University of Denmark, Søltofts Plads, Building 227, 2800 Kgs. Lyngby

Academic History:

Bachelor’s degree: Technical University of Denmark, Department of Chemical Engineering, Denmark (2016-2020).

Master’s degree: Technical University of Denmark, Department of Chemistry, Denmark (2020-2022).

Baptiste Alexandre Zanchet

Ph.D. Scholar (2024-present)

Technical University of Denmark, Søltofts Plads, Building 227, 2800 Kgs. Lyngby

Academic History:

Bachelor’s degree: Molecular and Cellular Biology, Strasbourg University, France (2017-2020).

Master’s degree: Molecular Biology and Genetics, Strasbourg University, France (2020-2022).

M2: Systems and Synthetic Biology, Paris Saclay University, France (2023-2024).

Cecilia Chiodaroli

Ph.D. Scholar (2025-present)

Technical University of Denmark, Søltofts Plads, Building 227, 2800 Kgs. Lyngby

Academic History:

Bachelor’s degree: Biology, Università degli Studi di Firenze, Italy (2019-2022).

Master’s degree: Molecular and Applied Biology, Università degli Studi di Firenze, Italy (2023-2025).

Rene Rebollo Gonzalez

Industrial Ph.D. Scholar (2024-present)

Novo Nordisk & Technical University of Denmark.

Academic History:

Bachelor’s degree: Pharmaceutical and Chemical Biology, Autonomous University of Mexico, Mexico (2009-2014).

Master’s degree: Nanomedicine for Drug Delivery, Paris Cité University, France (2019-2021).

Shuangyan Wang (Ph.D)

Postdoctoral fellow

Technical University of Denmark, Søltofts Plads, Building 227, 2800 Kgs. Lyngby

Academic History:

Louise Kjær Klausen (Ph.D.)

Laboratory technician

Technical University of Denmark, Søltofts Plads, Building 227, 2800 Kgs. Lyngby

Academic History:

Technician (Laborant AK) – Copenhagen University College (2019-2022)

• Internship- DTU bioengineering (2021-2022)

Ph.D. in Molecular Biology – University of Copenhagen, Denmark (2007-2013).

Master’s in Biology – University of Copenhagen, Denmark (2005-2007).

Bachelor’s in Biology – University of Copenhagen, Denmark (2001-2005).