I used to be a ph.d. student and research assistant professor at DAIMI. I handed in my dissertation (the faint of heart might prefer just to read the abstract) on August 27, 1999 and defended it on March 9, 2000. My areas of interests (with manuscripts of most published papers) are algorithms for and complexities of problems drawn from the areas of genetics and molecular biology. This field is usually refered to as computational biology or bioinformatics. For those with a historical interest – or doing Ph.D. student developmental studies – in 1997 I wrote a progress report (2.5MB so with a slow connection you might prefer the zip'ed version) describing my work so far; it contains numerous errors and misperceptions, but I did pass my qualification exam on June 10, 1997 based on the work described in it. During most of 1998 (from February 1st to December 13th) I visited Dr. Michael Zuker at the Institute for Biomedical Computing (now closed) at Washington University in St. Louis. For the entirity of 2000 and 2001 I was a postdoc with David Haussler at the Computational Biology group at the Jack Baskin School of Engineering, University of California, Santa Cruz. This postdoc position was in 2000 sponsored by a personal grant from Carlsbergfondet and in 2001 to a large extent by a personal grant from the Program in Mathematics and Molecular Biology. Now I am a postdoc with Jotun Hein in the bioinformatics group at the Department of Statistics at Oxford University. For those who prefer to see my professional life described in list form I try to maintain a curriculum vitæ. But work is not everything.
I am a member of the Danish libertarian organisation Libertas which leaves me in the small fraction of people being neither politically respectable nor neo-Nazis (and just for the record: though being a Dane, and so far only having been a resident of Denmark, the U.S.A., and the United Kingdom, I do not consider myself part of the lynch mob branded Coalition of the Willing). Nevertheless experience should teach us to be most on our guard to protect liberty when the government's purposes are beneficient. Men born to freedom are naturally alert to repel invasion of their liberty by evil-minded rulers. The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well-meaning but without understanding.
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