Personal Information

Born: Frederiksberg, Denmark, 16th March 1966.

Education

1993: MSc Copenhagen University (CU) 1998: PhD Copenhagen University

Resent scientific positions

2010-present: Associate Professor, National Food Institute, DTU Food, Technical University of Denmark (DTU)

2007-2009: Senior Scientist, National Institute for Aquatic Resources, DTU Aqua, DTU

2006-2006: Part-time as Associate Research Professor at The Royal Veterinary and Agricultural University (RVAU), and part-time Senior Research Scientist at Fiskaalingen p/f Aquaculture Research Station of the Faroes.

2005-2006: Associate Professor RVAU.
2004-2005: Senior Scientist at Elsam Engineering A/S. 2000-2004: Associate Research Professor at RVAU.

Present and resent research activities

2010- : Nordic Council funding for a Nordic Master in Aquatic Food Production - Safety and Quality

2009-2013: The Strategic Research Council, 2.828.959 Dkr. DTU Food part of a large national Research network DAFINET (employment of 1 Post Doc)

2009-2013: The Strategic Research Council, 6.088.000 Dkr. Research grant DANQUAL (employment of 1 PhD and 1 Post Doc)

2008: The Danish Agency for Science, Technology and Innovation partner in a grant under ”Start- programmet”, 221.400 DKr

2008-2013: EU 7 frame program, 4,300,000 DKr. Training and Mobility Network for Young Scientists. NEMO (employment of two PhD students and co-financing of one PhD student).

2007-2010: Project coordinator national research project called FIFI, 4,124,140 DKr. (Fish Quality and Fish Health)

2005-2007: Project coordinator national research project called NAX, 2,686,012 DKr. (Natural Astaxanthin).

2005-2006: Participant in a EU research network called IMAQUANIM 4,067,000 DKr.(Improved immunity of aquacultured animals)

2004-2005: Participant in a large EU energy project called IBUS 890,000 DKr.(Integrated Biomass Utilisation for Production of Biofuels).

2002-2006: Partner in a EU training and mobility network called PARITY 3,650,000 DKr. (Integrated Approach to the Innate Immune Response to Parasites in Fish).

2000-2003: Partner in the Danish fisheries network Fishnet.900,000 DKr.
1998-2000: Project coordinator on disease prevention in Chinese carp culture. 2,190,000 Dkr.

CURRICULUM VITAE

Students

2009-present PhD main supervisor Jacob Günther Schmidt (Technical University of Denmark)

2009-present PhD main supervisor Dominika Przybylska (Technical University of Denmark)

2009-present PhD main supervisor Natalia Ivonne Vera Jiménez (Technical University of Denmark)

2008-present PhD-project supervisor Anna Boschian - on leave (Copenhagen University Hospital)

2007-2010 PhD main supervisor Hans-Christian Ingerslev (Technical University of Denmark)

2002-2006  PhD main for Santiago F. González (University of Santiago, Spain) (RVAU)

Official appointed external evaluator and examiner

Natural Environment Research Council (NERC) (external evaluator), Academy of Finland; The Research Council for Biosciences and Environment (member of the biosciences panel).  University of Southern Denmark (external examiner).

Membership of relevant professional bodies

EU expert panel on Organic Aquaculture, EU aquaculture initiative AquaT-net, National advisor on organic fish and fish feed production, EU ITN Network (NEMO) on fish immune modulation using ß- glucans, World Aquaculture Society. Large Strategic National Research Network (DAFINET)

Referee

Developmental & Comparative Immunology, PlosOne, FEMS, Immunology and Medical Microbiology, Fish and Shellfish Immunology, FEMS, Microbiology, Journal of Parasitology, Diseases of Aquatic Animals, Aquaculture Engineering, Veterinary Immunology and Immunopathology, International Immunopharmacology, Vaccine, Journal of Food Quality, Aquaculture Research, Acta Ichthyologica et Piscatoria,  Journal of Aquatic Food Product Technology, Microbial Ecology, Zoological Studies, Journal of Fish Diseases,Scandinavian Journal of Immunology,

Dissemination summary

Thesis’s: 2 (1 MSc. & 1 PhD)
Int. peer-reviewed journals: 44; 14 (first author) + 30 (co-author)

National journals: 3 Invited speaker: 7 Popular publications: 6

H-factor: 19 Resent relevant papers:

Book chapters: 3 Conference abstracts : 68 Lecture notes: 3

Ljungqvist, Martin Georg; Dissing; Nielsen, Michael Engelbrecht; Ersbøll, Bjarne Kjær; Frosch, Stina. Image analysis of pellet size for a control system in industrial feed production. P L o S One, vol: 6, issue: 10, 2011

Dissing, Bjørn Skovlund; Nielsen, Michael Engelbrecht; Ersbøll, Bjarne Kjær; Frosch, Stina. Multispectral Imaging for Determi- nation of Astaxanthin Concentration in salmonids. P L o S One, vol: 6, issue: 5, 2011

Ingerslev, Hans-Christian; Lunder, Tor; Nielsen, Michael Engelbrecht. Inflammatory and regenerative responses in salmonids following mechanical tissue damage and natural infection. Fish and Shellfish Immunology, vol.: 29, issue: 3, pages: 440-450, 2010

Ingerslev, Hans-Christian ; Ossum, Carlo Gunnar ; Lindenstrøm, Thomas ; Nielsen, Michael Engelbrecht. Fibroblasts express immune relevant genes and are important sentinel cells during tissue damage in rainbow trout (Oncorhynchus mykiss). P L o S One, vol.: 5, issue: 2, 2010

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