DDSA - Key Persons


Aasa Feragen

Job Titles:
  • Professor

Adrián Sousa-Poza

Job Titles:
  • Student Assistant - Data Science
Adrián holds a bachelor's degree in physics from Radboud University in Nijmegen, Holland, and is currently doing his master's in physics at University of Copenhagen.

Allan Christian Shaw - VP

Job Titles:
  • Corporate Vice President

Anastassia Vybornova

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Organising Committee
  • Student at Department of Computer Science, IT University of Copenhagen

Anders Krogh

Job Titles:
  • Vice - Chair

Andreas Tind

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Organising Committee
  • Junior BI Developer, Region Midtjylland and Board Member, Danish Data Science Community

Benedikte Maria Harders Lentz

Job Titles:
  • Student Assistant - Communications

Britta Isager Nielsen

Job Titles:
  • Administrative Coordinator
  • Executive Assistant
Britta has served as Administrative Coordinator focused on HR at DTU Biosustain. At DDSA, she is responsible for finance management, development, and maintenance of administrative processes, as well as providing administrative support to the Managing Director and assisting with reporting to partners such as Novo Nordisk Foundation and Villum Fonden.

Camilla Sofani Bartholdy

Job Titles:
  • Head of Innovation, Ministry of Foreign Affairs

Cecilie Utke Rank

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Organising Committee
  • Physician and Researcher, Rigshospitalet / University of Copenhagen

Cyril Pernet

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Organising Committee
  • Scientific Software Developer, Rigshospitalet

Deirdre Cronin Fenton

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Organising Committee
  • Associate Professor at Department of Clinical Epidemiology, Aarhus University

Federica Belmonte

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Organising Committee
  • Statistician and Researcher, Danish Cancer Research Center

Hua Lu

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Organising Committee
  • Professor, Department of People and Technology, Roskilde University

Ira Assent

Job Titles:
  • Professor

Jacob Ramlov Jensen

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Organising Committee
  • Co - Founder, AI / ML Development Lead, Go Autonomous

Jens Ulrik Hansen

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Organising Committee
  • Associate Professor at Department of People and Technology, Roskilde University

Jes Frellsen

Job Titles:
  • Associate Professor

Katja Hose

Job Titles:
  • Professor

Kenneth Borup

Job Titles:
  • Student at DIGIT Centre, Aarhus University

Lars Kai Hansen - Chairman

Job Titles:
  • Chairman
  • Professor
  • Section Head, Department of Applied Mathematics and Computer Science, Technical University of Denmark

Leonard Henckel

Job Titles:
  • Postdoctoral Researcher at Department of Mathematical Sciences, University of Copenhagen

Lisbeth Fajstrup

Job Titles:
  • Associate Professor at Department of Mathematical Sciences, Aalborg University

Mads Nielsen

Job Titles:
  • Professor at Department of Computer Science, University of Copenhagen

Marie Louise Thorstensen

Job Titles:
  • Communications Manager
Marie Louise is cand.scient.pol from Aarhus University and has a Diploma in Communications from DMJX with 15+ years experience within communication, politics and analysis from The Danish Parliament, Danish Chamber of Commerce and Agency for Digital Government.

Marius Laurberg Cortsen

Job Titles:
  • Service Designer - Service Development and Stakeholder Management
Marius has a BSc. in Business, Language and Culture, and a MSc. Cand.merc in Innovation Management and Business Development from CBS. He has previously worked in innovation consulting and learning management.

Melanie Ganz-Benjaminsen

Job Titles:
  • Professor, Rigshospitalet / University of Copenhagen

Mette Specht Andersen

Job Titles:
  • Fellowship & Grant Manager

Mikkel Baun Kjærgaard

Job Titles:
  • Professor

Roald Forsberg

Job Titles:
  • CEO, Founder, Raven Bioscience

Sandra Franco Iborra

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Organising Committee
  • Scientific Events Manager
Sandra is originally from Barcelona, Spain. She has a PhD in Neuroscience and has worked as Education and Outreach Coordinator at the New York Genome Center, leading the organization and logistics for annual research symposia and workshops that help to disseminate research advances in the field of single cell genomics. She has also been volunteering with STEM education & outreach organizations to promote scientific vocations among young students.

Sebastian Weichwald

Job Titles:
  • Assistant Professor, Department of Mathematical Sciences, University of Copenhagen

Sisse Rye Ostrowski

Job Titles:
  • Clinical Professor at Department of Clinical Medicine, Rigshospitalet / University of Copenhagen

Sniff Andersen Nexø

Job Titles:
  • Education & Grant Manager
Sniff has a PhD in History and a cross-disciplinary MA. Now engaged in the education and networking activities of the DDSA, she draws on 10+ years of experience with research and pre-/postgrad education as an associate professor and the chair of the PhD school at HUM at the University of Copenhagen.

Sofie Inari Castella - Managing Director

Job Titles:
  • Managing Director
Sofie started as CEO on November 1, 2021, and since then she has quickly build the DDSA secretariat. Sofie comes from Novo Nordisk, where she has held several management positions in data science for 12 years. Sofie holds a master's degree in Mathematics and Bioinformatics from Roskilde University and the University of Copenhagen and has taken courses at the universities of Lund and Helsinki.

Søren Hauberg

Job Titles:
  • Professor