Group Members

Anders Albrechtsen

role: Group leader since 2012; Professor since 2020

Marta Ciucani

started 2024
role: Post doc with Anders Albrechtsen

Shixu He

started 2022 as PhD student, 2026 as postdoc
role: Postdoc with Anders Albrechtsen

Thomas Bøggild

started 2025
role: PhD Student with (Main)Rasmus Heller and Anders Albrechtsen

Frederik Filip Stæger

started 2021 as PHD student, 2024 as post doc.
role: Post doc with Henning Bundgaard but still working with Ida Moltke and Anders Albrechtsen

• PhD thesis, Medical genetics in the Greenlandic population, 2024

Mikkel Schubert

started 2021
role: Staff Scientist at CMBR working with Torben Hansen and Anders Albrechtsen

Zilong Li

In the lab 2020-2026. Now postdoc with Jonas Meisner
role: PhD student and postdoc with Anders Albrechtsen

• PhD thesis Efficient statistical and computational methods for large scale sequencing data, 2023

Ulises Bercovich

In the lab 2023-2026, at the Department of Mathematics
role: PhD student with Carsten Wiuf (main) and Anders Albrechtsen

Renzo Balboa

2022-2024
role: Postdoc with Ida Moltke and Anders Albrechtsen

Long Lin

2021-2024
role: PhD student with Anders Albrechtsen

Malthe Sebro Rasmussen

2019-2024
role: PhD student and Post Doc with Anders Albrechtsen

• PhD thesis Probabilistic modelling in genomics, 2023

Anna bruniche Olsen

In the lab 2021-2022, now Post doc at GLOBE, UCPEH
role: Post doc with Anders Albrechtsen and Rasmus Heller

Genis Garcia-Erill

In the lab 2018-2023, now Post doc in Aarhus University
role: Master thesis student, PhD student, postdoc. Supervised by Anders Albrechtsen and Rasmus Heller

• MsC, Bioinformatics 2019
• PhD, Population Genomics of Non-model Organisms using Next Generation Sequencing Data, 2023
• Postdoc, 2023

Kristian Ebbesen Hanghøj

In the lab 2018-2023, now researcher at Novo Nordisk
role: Post doc with Anders Albrechtsen

Malan Johansen

In the lab 2021-2022
role: PhD Student from University of The Faroe Islands with Maria Skaalum Petersen (main), Anders Albrechtsen and Torben Hansen

• PhD thesis Epidemiology and Genetics of Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis and Alzheimer’s Disease in the Faroe Islands, 2023

Fanwei Zeng

2019-2022
role: PhD student with Anders Albrechtsen. Dual PhD with BGI College, China

• PhD thesis Clinical application of high-throughput sequencing technology in prenatal screening and diagnosis of birth defects, 2022

Wenqian Zhang

2019-2022
role: PhD student with Anders Albrechtsen. Dual PhD with BGI College, China

• PhD thesisUnraveling the genetic basis of neurological diseases and thalassemia the clinical utility of high throughput sequencing, 2022

Anne Krogh Nøhr

In the lab 2019-2022. Now post doc in Aalborg University
role: Industrial PhD student with Anders Albrechtsen, co-supervised by Ida Moltke & Morana Vitezic from Lundbeck

• PhD thesisExploring antidepressant treatment response using biological and clinical measurements, 2022

Jonas Meisner

In the lab 2017-2021, now postdoc at Copenhagen Research Center for Mental Health and CMBR at UCPH.
role: PhD Student with Anders Albrechtsen

• Msc, Bioinformatics
• PhD thesis Method Development for Next-Generation Sequencing Data in Population Genetics, 2020
• postdoc 2020-2021

Ninna Karsbæk Senftleber

In the lab 2017-2020. Now post doc in Steno and CBMR
role: PhD student with Anders Albrechtsen but co-supervised by Marit Eika jørgensen

• PhD thesisThe traditional diet and genetic architecture of the Greenlandic Inuit and their cardiovascular effects, 2020

Ryan Waples

In the lab 2016-2019
role: PhD student with Anders Albrechtsen(co) and Ida Moltke (main)

• PhD thesisRelatedness, admixture and the genetic history of Greenland-European contact, 2019

Emil Jørsboe

In the lab 2015-2020. Now post doc in Oxford and CBMR
role: Master thesis student, PhD student, postdoc

• MsC, Bioinformatics 2015
• PhD thesisProbabilistic methods for the analysis of genome-wide data for admixed populations including association studies in Greenlandic Inuit, 2019
• Postdoc 2019-2020

Georgios Athanasiadis

In the lab 2017-2019. Now assistant professor University of Barcelona
role: Post doc with with Anders Albrechtsen

Samuele Soraggi

In the lab 2015-2018
role: PhD Student supervised with Carsten Wiuf (main) & Anders Albrechtsen(co)

• PhD thesisTheory and inference on gene flow and ploidy levels from NGS data, 2018

Aviaja L Hauptmann

In the lab 2018
role: Post Doc visiting the lab

• Now Assistant professor at Ilisimatusarfik

Siyang Liu

At UCPH 2014-2017 supervised by Anders Albrechtsen (co) and Anders Krogh (main)
role: PhD Student in the lab 2014-2017

• website
• Now Associate professor, Sun Yat-sen University
• PhD thesisAnalysing human genomes at different scales, 2017

Emil Vincent Rosenbaum Appel

In the lab 2014-2017
role: PhD Student with Anders Albrechtsen, Ida Moltke, Torben Hansen (main) and Niels Grarup.

• PhD thesis the genetics of complex metabolic diseases, 2017

Peter Frandsen

In the lab 2013 - 2017
role: PhD student with Hans R. Siegismund (main) & Anders Albrechtsen (co)

• PhD thesisAdaptive Evolution and Demographic History of African Great Apes, 2016

Casper-Emil Tingskov Pedersen

In the lab 2014-2017. Now post doc in COPSAQ
role: PhD student with Anders Albrechtsen but co-supervised by Rasmus Heller and Hans Siegismund

• PhD thesisDemographic inferences from large-scale NGS data, 2017

Line Skotte

In the lab 2011-2015.
role: PhD student with Anders Albrechtsen, co-supervised by Rasmus Nielsen

• PhD thesisStatistical approaches accommodating uncertainty in modern genomic data, 2015