Protein Biophysics at DTU Bioengineering

Prof. Alexander Kai Buell (Ph.D.)

Principal investigator

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

Tel.	45 25 40 61
Email	[email protected]
ORCID	0000-0003-1161-3622

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)

Antonin Kunka

Postdoctoral fellow (2022-present)

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

Academic History:

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

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

Tel.	+420731521359
Email	[email protected]
ORCID	0000-0002-1170-165X

Christin Alina Pohl

Postdoctoral fellow (2022-present)

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

Co-affiliated to Sara Linse’s group, Lund University, Sweden

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Email	[email protected]
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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 2011-2012

Ph.D.: University of Cambridge 2012-2016

Postdoc: Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel

Tel.	71 66 80 37
Email	[email protected]
ORCID	N/A

Soumik Ray (Ph.D.)

Marie Curie (Horizon MSCA)

Postdoctoral fellow (2021-present)

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

Academic History:

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

Master’s degree: Biochemistry, University of Hyderabad 2013-2015

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

Tel.	61 47 96 69
Email	[email protected]
ORCID	0000-0002-1933-5471

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, 2016-2020

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

Technical University of Denmark, September 2021 – present

Tel.	50624001
Email	[email protected]
ORCID	N/A

Jacob Aunstrup Larsen

Ph.D. scholar (2021-Present)

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

Academic History:

Bachelor’s degree: Nanotechnology, Aalborg University 2014-2017

Master’s degree: Nanobiotechnology, Aalborg University 2017-2019

Research Assistant: Technical University of Denmark, October 2020 – December 2020

Tel.	30 48 18 75
Email	[email protected]
ORCID	0000-0002-6782-0594

Rasmus Krogh Norrild

Ph.D. scholar (2020-present)

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

Academic History:

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

Master’s degree: Biochemistry, University of Copenhagen 2017-2019

Tel.	45 25 40 61
Email	[email protected]
ORCID	0000-0002-9120-2745

Lili Zhai

Ph.D. scholar (2019-present)

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

Academic History:

Master’s degree: Biotechnology, Wuhan Institute of Technology 2013-2015

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Email	[email protected]
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Seyedazad Farzadfard

Research assistant

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

Academic History:

Bachelor’s degree: Biological Sciences, Damghan University 2007-2011

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

Visiting researcher: Aarhus University, 2019-2021

Research Assistant: Technical University of Denmark, May 2021 – present

Tel.	50 11 40 25
Email	[email protected]
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Louise Kjær Klausen

Laboratory technician

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

Academic History:

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

• Internship- DTU bioengineering (2021-2022)

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

Master’s in Biology – Copenhagen University (2005-2007) Bachelor’s in Biology – Copenhagen University (2001-2005) 

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Email	[email protected]
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Kristina Mielec

Laboratory technician

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

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