April 1998. Title of lecture "The Analysis and Potential Hazards of Environmental Estrogens"
Lecturer:
1999-2007 (permanent) at the Department of Analytical Chemistry, Lund University, Sweden. Currently on leave.
Professor / Head of Section:
March 1st 2007, Department of Micro- and Nanotechnology (MIC), BIOMICS (Biomedical Microdevices) section, Technical University of Denmark (DTU) building 345east, room no. 254, DK-2800 Kgs. Lyngby, Denmark.
MATERNITY LEAVE 7 months with my daughter (Born February 10, 1996) 8 months with my son (Born October 15, 2000)
POST-DOCTORAL RESEARCH STAY
October 1993-April 1994: Six month research stay at Prof. J. van der Greef´s Division of Analytical Chemistry, in the group of Hubertus Irth, Leiden/Amsterdam Center of Drug Research, Leiden, The Netherlands.
KEY RESEARCH TOPICS
Microfluidic microchip based optical- and electrochemical bioassays based on immobilised enzymes, antibodies and cells for dynamic monitoring of cellular events in real-time to gain insight into biological processes at cell level.
Bioelectronic tongue systems (amperometric enzyme-based biosensor arrays) that combined with multivariate data analysis/pattern recognition methods are used for environmental control and for correlation to toxicity.
Miniaturised affinity based sample-handling procedures (immuno-SLM), enabling simultaneous selective pre-concentration and sample cleanup.
PROJECTS and FUNDING
I have coordinated five major EC projects within the 4th and 5th framework programme and have been a partner of four (see list of EU projects below). My research is currently financed by the Swedish Research Council (VR) (2004 - 945.000 SEK; 2005 – 945000 SEK; 2006 – 540000 SEK). Other sources of funding comes from Crafoordska Stiftelsen (350 000 SEK accepted June 2005), the EC through the Network of Excellence “Bringing Nanotechnologies to Life” (Nano2Life), in which I am a member of the executive board and is the work package 3 leader and from the Marie Curie Early Stage Training site project BIONEL in which I receive three fully funded PhD students as one of their two main supervisors. 472 000 SEK (188 900 zl) was recently accepted (May 2006-Dec. 2008) from the Polish Ministry of Scientific Research and Information Technology with Dr. Iza Zdrojewska, Medical University of Gdansk, Poland. Funding has in the past been received from Swedish sources such as NFR, Mistra, SJFR, NV, SI, and FRN.
EU-projects
1997-2000: Co-ordinator for the EC project "Integrated Immuno Extraction Sampling and Portable Biosensor Prototype for In-Field Monitoring" (INExSPORT), EC Contract No.ENV4-CT97-0476. Total funding LU: 224800 €.
1998-2001: Co-ordinator of the EC-INCO project "Multichannel Electrochemical Biosensors For Rapid Food Safety Monitoring ", EC Contract No. MEBFOOD-IC15-CT98-0910. Total funding LU: 56000 €