CV

Curriculum vitae of Jan Stanstrup — metabolomics bioinformatician and Assistant Professor at the University of Copenhagen. Work experience, education, and teaching history in LC-MS metabolomics and bioinformatics.

Work Experience

Period Position & Details
May 2019 - present Assistant Professor & Data Manager
Department of Nutrition, Exercise and Sports, University of Copenhagen

Responsibilities: Research in metabolomics and bioinformatics, course responsible for multiple courses, data management
Sep 2017 - Apr 2019 PostDoc
Department of Plant and Environmental Sciences, University of Copenhagen
Mar 2016 - Aug 2017 Research Scientist - Systems Medicine
Steno Diabetes Center, Gentofte, Denmark
Mar 2014 - Feb 2016 PostDoc - Department of Food Quality and Nutrition
Research and Innovation Centre, Fondazione Edmund Mach (FEM), San Michele all’Adige
Scholarship from Villum Fonden

Project: Mapping and translation of retention times between chromatographic systems
Project website: predret.org
May 2010 - June 2010 Research Assistant
Department of Basic Sciences and Environment, Faculty of Life Sciences, University of Copenhagen

Project: Secondary metabolites in macroalgae
Supervisor: Professor Dan Stærk
Aug 2008 - Sep 2009 Pharmacist Student (Pharmaconomist)
Lyngby Svane Apotek

Education

Period Degree & Details
Sep 2010 - Dec 2013 PhD in Nutritional Metabolomics
Department of Nutrition, Exercise and Sports, Faculty of Science, University of Copenhagen
3½ month stay with Dr. Steffen Neumann (Bioinformatics & Mass Spectrometry, Leibniz IPB, Halle, DE)

Topic: Metabolomics profiles of obese and diabetics after intake of different whey protein fractions
Keywords: LC-MS profiling, Statistical analysis of LC-MS data, Structure elucidation by MS/MS, Biological interpretation
Supervisor: Professor Lars Ove Dragsted
2007 - Nov 2009 MSc in Pharmacy (MSc.pharm.)
Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences, University of Copenhagen

Thesis: Exploring chemodiversity in Dovyalis caffra and alkaloids in Laureliopsis Philippiana
Supervisor: Professor Dan Stærk
Optional courses: Statistical Design of Experiments, Advanced Organic Chemistry (theoretical and laboratory), Advanced Spectroscopy, Medicinal Chemistry, Pharmacokinetics and -dynamics
2004 - 2007 BSc in Pharmacy (BSc.pharm.)
Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences, University of Copenhagen

Teaching Experience

Year Activity Role
2022- Introduction to Nutritional Metabolomics (PhD course) Course responsible
2022- Basal statistik i idrætsvidenskab (Bachelor course) Course responsible
2023- Metabolomics (Master course) Introduction to R, LC-MS data pre-processing lecture & exercises, exercise help, censor
2024- Study Design in Human Nutrition (Master course) Lecture on statistical methods in R, exercise help
2023 Data literacy in nutrition and health Teaching
2020-2024 Metabolomics summer school Organizer and teacher
2016-2020, 2022- Introduction to Nutritional Metabolomics Lecture on R & pre-processing, compound ID
2012 Bioactive Components and Health Course coordinator
2010 Introduction to Human Nutrition Co-coordinator
2012 Nutritional Study Design and Status Assessment Lecture
2011 Biochemistry exercises Lecture
2011 Internal course in introduction to basic Matlab functions Teacher
2011 Introduction to Nutritional Metabolomics Exercise assistance
2011 Bachelor student Supervision