curriculum vitae

COURSES AND DEGREES

2003-2009 Master of Science in Computer Science and Engineering, Royal Institute of Technology (KTH), Stockholm, Sweden
Thesis title: Analysis of Markov Chain Monte Carlo data in Bayesian Phylogenetics

Curriculum Vitae

DOCTORAL DEGREE

2014-06-09, Medical Science, Karolinska Insitutet, Sweden

Thesis title: “Modeling genetic susceptibility to multiple sclerosis”

Main supervisor: Jan Hillert, Karolinska Institutet

Co-supervisors: Timo Koski, Royal Insitute of Technology, Ingrid Kockum, Karolinska Institutet, Ryan Ramanujam, Karolinska Institutet, Izaura Lima Bomfim, Karolinska Institutet

 

POSTDOC APPOINTMENTS

2017-08-01 – Karolinska Institutet, Institute of Environmental Medicine (IMM) (40%), Department of Medicine, Solna (60%)
Supervisors: Lars Alfredsson, IMM, Johan Askling, Department of Medicine

2015-08-01 – 2017-07-31 Karolinska Institutet, Institute of Environmental Medicine (IMM) (50%), Department of Medicine, Solna (50%)
Supervisors: Lars Alfredsson, IMM, Jon Lampa, Department of Medicine

2014-08-01 – 2015-07-31 Karolinska Institutet, Institute of Environmental Medicine (IMM) (80%), Department of Biosciences and Nutrition (20%)
Supervisor: Henrik Källberg, IMM

 

 CURRENT POSITION

2017-08-01 postdoc, Institute of Environmental Medicine (IMM), Karolinska Institutet, 100% research. 60% of the time is spent at Department of Medicine, Unit of Clinical Epidemiology in the research group of Professor Johan Askling

 

PRIOR POSITIONS

2014 – 2016 Teaching assistant, Mathematical statistics, KTH
2010-2014 PhD student, KI
2009 Project assistant, KI
2011 Teacher, statistics, Stockholm University
2009 Regulatory affairs assistant, Alpha Regulatory
2008 Teaching assistant in biostatistics, KTH
2001-2003 Dog walker, Birka Hundcenter
2006 – Dog agility trainer at Svenska Brukshundklubbens Stockholmsavdelning, Mälarö Brukshundklubb and Danderyd-Täby Brukshundklubb

 SELECTED ACADEMIC DISTINCTIONS AND OTHER MERITS

2013 Awarded with “Young Scientific Investigator” scholarship at European Committee for Treatment and Research in Multiple Sclerosis (ECTRIMS), at the annual conference in Copenhagen, Denmark, for the project “Modest familial risks for multiple sclerosis: a population-based registry study of Sweden”.

Other merits include, but are not limited to; mathematical statistics, biostatistics, clinical epidemiology, genetic epidemiology, genomic analysis, R, SAS, Python, C, Java, BASH, regex, Plink, GCTA, Linux, inflammatory diseases.

 

 LANGUAGE SKILLS

Swedish: native
English: fluent
German: novice