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Biosketch

Per earned his doctorate from the University of Copenhagen and did his post doctorate with Richard Hudson at UC Irvine. Per uses population genetics/omics in ecology and evolution. Per has worked as faculty at; the School of Biological Sciences (University of Bangor), Environmental Science, Policy and Management & Museum of Vertebrate Zoology (UC Berkeley), Department of Genetics, Microbiology and Toxicology (University of Stockholm) and Organismic and Evolutionary Biology (Harvard University).

Teaching

Courses

I coordinate the MSc courses:

  • Principles of Population Genetics in Natural Populations
  • Practical Computing for Biologists

I also teach in the MSc course Polar Ecology, and the conservation genetics part of the BSc course Conservation Biology.

Supervision of MSc and PhD projects

I supervise MSc research projects in our Marine Biology master programme, mainly projects aimed at marine conservation based on population genetic assessments.

Prospective PhD students/post docs

If you are interested in conducting a PhD or postdoc in our group, feel free to make contact.

Education/Academic qualification

Population genetics, PhD, Development and use of molecular analyses for the study of North Atlantic populations of cetaceans, with emphasis on the humpback whale, Megaptera novaeangliae, Copenhagen University

1-Jan-199113-Aug-1993

Award Date: 13-Aug-1993

Population genetics, MSc, Restriction fragment pattern analysis of mitochondrial DNA in the North Atlantic minke whale, Balaenoptera acutorostrata, Copenhagen University

1-Sept-19871-May-1989

Award Date: 1-May-1989

Population Genetics, Professor, (Department of Genetics, Microbiology and Toxicology) , Stockholm University

1-Nov-200630-Aug-2011

Conservation Genetics, Hrdy Fellow in Conservation Biology, (sabbatical from Stockholm University), Harvard Univ, Harvard University

1-Aug-20101-Jul-2011

Conservation Genetics, Associate Professor, (Department of Environmental Science, Policy and Management, primary affiliation), University of California Berkeley

1-Jun-20061-Nov-2006

Conservation Genetics, Research Conservation Geneticst, (Museum of Vertebrate Zoology, secondary affiliation), University of California Berkeley

1-Aug-20021-Nov-2006

Conservation Genetics, Assistant Professor, (Department of Environmental Science, Policy and Management, primary affiliation), University of California Berkeley

1-Apr-20011-Jun-2006

Population Genetics, Assistant Professor, School of Biological Sciences, School of Biological Sciences, University of Wales, Deinol Road, Bangor, Gwynedd LL57 2UW, Wales, UK

1-Nov-19981-Apr-2001

Population Genetics, Senior researcher, Free University of Brussels

1-Jan-19981-Nov-1998

Population Genetics, Post doctoral researcher, (with Prof. Richard R. Hudson, sponsored by the Danish Research Council) , University of California-Irvine

1-Jan-19961-Jan-1998

Population Genetics, Post doctoral Researcher, (sponsored by the EU), University of Copenhagen

16-Aug-19931-Jan-1996

External positions

Adjunct Scientist, Center for Coastal Studies, Provincetown

1-Dec-2016 → …

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