Birgitte Nilsson

Experience

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  VUC Syd

  Jan 2014 - Dec 2014

  Adjunct

  Teaching chemistry and biology at the Higher Preparatory Examination (HF). Regular class and virtual distance educator. Skills: Classroom Management. Preparing lessons and develops lesson plans. Grading oral exams. Coaching. Confidence building. Create positive learning environment. Creating new ideas for teaching. Communication skills.

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  Roskilde University

  Dec 2014 - Mar 2018

  Ph.D. Student

  Methodical competencies and skills:- RNA-sequencing, bioinformatics (including RNA extraction, RNA QC and library prep)- Real-time quantitative PCR (qPCR) and gene expression analysis- High-Performance Liquid Chromatography (HPLC) and Mass Spectrometry (MS)- Staining (DAPI, neutral red etc.)- Basic molecular techniques (DNA and RNA isolation, cDNA synthesis, PCR, gel electrophoresis, gel purification etc.) Other skills: Teaching. Supervision of undergraduates. Project management and independent research. Academic writing. Oral presentations. Python programming language. Experience with R/R-studio. Unix and shell scripting.Conferences:- 18th Danske Havforskermøde. 28.-30. January 2015, Copenhagen, Denmark (participant)- Aquaculture 2015 Conference – Cutting Edge Science in Aquaculture. 23.-26. August 2015, Montpellier, France. (Oral presentation: Copepods swimming behavior, respiration, and stress related genes in response to high stocking densities).- SICB meeting, January 4.-8. 2016, New Orleans, LA, USA (oral presentation: Do copepods experience stress caused by handling?)Research stay:October 2016 - March 2017, Department of Marine Sciences, University of Connecticut, Avery Point, Groton, CT, USA. Visiting Professor Ann Bucklin's research group. Show less

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  DTU Health Tech

  Jun 2018 - Jul 2019

  Data Manager

  Data manager at the European type II diabetes project, DIRECT (Diabetes Research for Patient Stratification, www.direct-diabetes.org), and ad hoc bioinformatician in Prof. Søren Brunak’s research group (DTU Health Tech and the Novo Nordisk Foundation Center for Protein Research).Key duties:- Leading, facilitating and coordinating data acquisition and data management procedures of DIRECT. - Acting as management interface between molecular biologists, medical doctors and the computer scientists and engineers of DTU’s High-Performance Computing team, Computerome. Interdisciplinary collaboration across Europe.- Developing pipelines to facilitate discovery within the field, as well as helping participants with biological data analysis (bioinformatics and biostatistics)- Handling, management, and analysis of clinical-, biochemical – and ‘omics data (i.e., genomics, transcriptomics, proteomics, metabolomics, metagenomics, lipidomics).- Performing bioinformatics on single cell RNAseq data for an additional project, RIMMI (Regional Immune Modulation of Mucosal Inflammation). Key skills:- Experience with systems administration, and secure private cloud environments.- MySQL, and the programming languages: R and Python.- Experience with eCRFs.- Data handling.- Biological data analysis and machine learning. Show less

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  Nationalt Genom Center

  Aug 2019 - Oct 2023

  Special Consultant: Solution Architect

  Key-duties:• Scoping and designing an innovative and complete data analysis platform for researchers and clinicians to support the development of precision medicine in Denmark.• Project lead for IT specialists, including DevOps architects, infrastructure engineers, front – and backend developers, data specialists and UI-UX designers.• Collecting user requirements from stakeholders and translating them into technical solutions. • Setting the user-centric technology roadmap and leading the evolution of the data analysis platform with inputs from IT specialists and architects.• Continuously updating and improving the architectural design based on user needs, the latest industry knowledge, products, and news. • Building a solid team of internal and external IT specialists via recruitment and growing the skills of existing team members. • Communicating strategies, visions, architectural plans and roadmaps to internal and external stakeholders.• Involved actively in the project, for instance, by automating deployments related to the data analysis platform with SaltStack.• Experience with HPC, cloud technologies, and securely working with personal and sensitive health data.• Agile project management (flexible Scrum and SAFe). Show less

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  Novo Nordisk

  Oct 2023 - now

  Scientific Data Architect in Scientific Architecture (later DKD, SDR, Scientific Software Engineering) in Digital and Science and Innovation (DSI).Key duties:• Plays a pivotal role in the Capability Delivery Model for the Target and Translations cluster, overseeing six product teams together with a system architect, business capability lead, and delivery lead. My main focus is to align data architecture with scientific goals and end-user needs.• Create and maintain data architecture blueprints and roadmaps, ensuring compliance with data quality standards, FAIR principles, governance policies, and security regulations (including GDPR).• Partner with business stakeholders, scientific leads, data experts, and SMEs to deliver solutions for scientific use cases, with a focus on structured management of scientific data.• Support teams with data model development, guiding data product development (e.g., integrating multiple data sources into one product), and creating robust data architectures. Conducting architecture reviews, in collaboration with the system architect, following the Well Architected Framework.• Lead and document current-state data architecture assessments to identify areas for improvement, and develop target-state data architectures to enhance scalability and efficiency. Show less

  • Lead Information Architect

    Dec 2024 - now

  • Scientific Data Architect

    Oct 2023 - Dec 2024