Søren Brunak
Professor
Brunak Group
Blegdamsvej 3B
2200 København N
Søren Brunak
Current positions
2015–:
Senior Medical Informatics Officer, Rigshospitalet, Copenhagen, Denmark
2007–:
Professor of Disease Systems Biology, CPR, University of Copenhagen
Previous positions
1999–2021:
Professor of Bioinformatics, Department of Systems Biology, Technical University of Denmark
1997–1998:
Associate professor, Department of Biotechnology, Technical University of Denmark, Kongens Lyngby, Denmark
1993–2015:
Center director, Center for Biological Sequence Analysis, Technical University of Denmark, Kongens Lyngby, Denmark (1993–1997 at the Department of Chemistry)
1990–1993:
Senior researcher, Department of Physics, Technical University of Denmark, Kongens Lyngby, Denmark
1987–1990:
Research associate, Department of Structural Properties of Materials, Technical University of Denmark, Kongens Lyngby, Denmark
1982–1984:
Administrative head, Andersen & Simonsen I/S, Ulfborg, Denmark
Education
2002:
Dr.phil. (honoris causa), Natural Science Faculty, Stockholm University, Sweden
1991:
PhD in Computational Biology, Department of Structural Properties of Materials, Technical University of Denmark
1987:
MSc in Physics, Niels Bohr Institute, University of Copenhagen, Denmark
Research awards
2019:
The Nordic Prize from the Eric K. Fernström Foundation
2019:
The Kirsten and Freddy Johansens Medical Preclinical prize
2017:
Honorary Award of the University Hospital of Zealand 2017, awarded to a pioneer who has broken conventions and created new paths through one’s work
2016:
Senior Scientist Award, International Society for Computational Biology (ISCB)
2016–:
Member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences
2013:
Julius Thomsen’s Gold Medal awarded by Technical University of Denmark
2012:
The Order of Dannebrog, Danish Royal Order of Chivalry
2011–:
Chair of the Interim ELIXIR Board
2011–:
ISCB Fellow
2009–:
Member of EMBO
2009:
Grundfos Prize 2009 for crucial and ground-breaking research within systems biology and bioinformatics
2007–2010:
Chair of the Awards Committee of the International Society for Computational Biology
2006:
Villum Kann Rasmussen Prize for Research within the Natural and Technical Sciences
2004–:
Member: Danish Royal Society of Science and Letters
2002:
Dir. Ib Henriksens Prize for Outstanding Science Achievement
2001–:
Member of the Danish Academy of Technical Sciences
2001–2004:
Board of directors, International Society for Computational Biology
1998:
Bjerrum-Brønsted-Lang Award from the Royal Danish Academy of Sciences and Letters.
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Porcine transcriptome analysis based on 97 non-normalized cDNA libraries and assembly of 1,021,891 expressed sequence tags
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A human gut microbial gene catalogue established by metagenomic sequencing
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