CV - KASPER PLANETA JENSEN

Born 1975 in Copenhagen, Denmark. Citizenship: Danish   

Education and Work

01.2009 to 12.2011      Associate Professor, Chemistry - DTU.

01.2007 to 12.2008     VKR postdoctoral fellow, DTU.

09.2007 to 12.2007     Visiting Scholar, Stanford University.
01.2005 to 12.2006      EMBO postdoctoral fellow, Yale University.
11.2000 to 11.2004      Ph.D., Lund University.
09.1997 to 10.2000      M.Sc. in chemistry, Copenhagen University. Grades: Topic 13. Thesis 13.
09.1994 to 07.1997      B.Sc. in physics, B.Sc. in chemistry, Roskilde University (RUC).

Awards and Grants

12. Young Elite Researcher 2009 Grant from The Danish Science Council

11. Steno Grant from the Danish Research Council, 2009-2011.

10. Grant from the Danish Center for Scientific Computing, 2008. "Computational Studies of Iron Proteins"

9. Danish Chemical Society Travel Grant ICBIC-13, Vienna July 2007.
8. Stanford visiting scholar Grant from the Danish Research Council, 2007.

7. Grant from the Danish Center for Scientific Computing, 2007. "Computational Studies of Engineered Iron-Sulfur Clusters"

6. Villum-Kann Rasmussen Fellow 2007-2008.

5. Excellence in Science Award, American Association for the Advancement of Science 2005.

4. European Molecular Biology Organization (EMBO) Long Term Fellow, 2005-2006.

3. Royal Physiographic Society of Sweden Young Researcher's Grant 2003.

2. Novo Nordisk 2000 Scolarship Award.

1. Copenhagen University Grant, 1999.

Professional Experience

1. Referee for internationals journals (~10/year):
 - J. Am. Chem. Soc.
 - Inorg. Chem.
 - J. Phys. Chem. B
 - J. Chem. Theory Comput.
 - Eur. J. Inorg. Chem.
 

2. Consultant to the World Anti-Doping Agency.
 

3. Boards and organizations:

 - President of the Yale Nordic Society 2005-2006.

 - Board member of LUNARC, Center for Scientific and Technical Computing in Lund, 2002-2003.

 - Local Organizing Committee of the QBIC-2 conference in Orenas, July 27-29 2000.
 - Local Organizing Committee of EUROBIC-6 in Lund July 30-August 2, 2002.
 

4. 28 scientific presentations (talks and posters).

5. Member of
 - the American Association for the Advancement of Science
 - the American Chemical Society
 - the Society of Biological Inorganic Chemistry
 - the Danish Chemical Society
 - the International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry  

Publications in Peer-Reviewed Journals

32 original articles, book chapters, and reviews in peer-reviewed international journals and books.  Cited more than 400 times.

h-index: 12.   26 as first-author and 12 as corresponding author; among these 7 as single-author.