Rotaru Lab

University of Southern Denmark

TEAM

  1. Amelia-Elena Rotaru, Professor of Microbial Physiology & Biochemistry (a complete CV here – vs. 07/2020)
  2. Lasse Ørum-Smidt, Lab technician
  3. Satoshi Kawaichi, Staff Scientist
  4. Rhitu Kotoky, Postdoc
  5. Konstantinos Anestis, Postdoc
  6. Ghazaleh Garib, Postdoc
  7. Tetyana Gilveska, Guest Postdoc (Marie Currie Fellow)
  8. Lorena Selak, AU/SDU Postdoc
  9. Abdalluh Jabaley, Ph.D. student
  10. Danijel Jovicic, Ph.D. student
  11. Malene Arreborg, Ph.D. student
  12. Karina Hernandez, Ph.D. student
  13. Yanan Wang, Guest Ph.D. student (UCAS fellow)
  14. Sarah Sabro Damgård, MSc student class of 2025
  15. Sebastian Bak Bjørnskov, MSc student class of 2025
  16. Adrienn Groza, from Radboud University, NL, Erasmus MSc thesis student class of 2024
  17. Sebastian Rotenberg, BSc ISA student

Major collaborators as of 2022

  • Denmark: Bo Barker Jørgensen, Kasper Urup Kjeldsen, Hans Røy, Jan Henkel, Thomas Bosen, Niculina Musat, Florin Musat, Rikke Meyer – Aarhus University
  • France: Damien Faivre and Daniel Chevrier at the Atomic Energy and Alternative Energies Commission
  • UK: Jonathan Lloyd, University of Manchester
  • Italy: Federico Aulenta and Stefano Fazi from the Water Research Institute of Italy
  • Portugal: Gilberto Martin, Madalena Alves from University of Minho
  • Sweden: Stefano Bonaglia, Tetyana Gilveska, Praktiska Shrivastava from University Gotheburg

Former lab members and visitors

  • 2024: Ask Våtvik Balsløv, BSc thesis student class of 2024
  • 2023 (3 months): Pamela Ciacia, MSc ERASMUS intern from Sapienza University of Rome, IT
  • 2023 (3 months): Valentina Palushi, MSc ERASMUS intern from Sapienza University of Rome, IT
  • 2023: Anne Salgårt Anderson, BSc thesis student class of 2023
  • 2022-2023 (3 months): Roman Seitshiro, Guest Ph.D. student from the Lloyd lab at the Uni. Manchester, UK
  • 2019-2022: Casper Krog Pedersen – B.Sc. and M.Sc. student, several ISA projects (ca. 3 years). Just graduated.
  • 2019-2020: Kelsey Lowe Rogers – guest postdoc (1 year). Kelsey was a postdoc in the Posth-lab at KU, DK
  • 2015-2019: Mon Oo Yee – Ph.D. student (4-year program). Then postdoc at Berkeley lab and SDU. Now a Microbiologist at Nature Energy, DK
  • 2016-2019: Paola Andrea Palacios – Ph.D. student & postdoc (3 years and 3 months). Then postdoc at SDU and now AU, DK
  • 2015-2018: Satoshi Kawaichi – Postdoc (2.5 years). Then postdoc at Ohio State Uni., and SDU-TEK, DK
  • 2016-2018: Oona Snoeyenbos-West – Postdoc (2 years). Then scientist at Natural History Museum, Stockholm and Arizona State Uni, USA
  • 2018: Xiaochen Yang – Postdoc intern (2 months). Now senior scientist at WuXi AppTec, China.
  • 2018: Daniel Jensen – guest M.Eng. student (1 year, collaboration AUEng/SDU). Now Quality Coordinator for Cryos Intl., DK
  • 2018: Hans Frederik Hansen – B.Sc. ISA project (3 months). Now Ph.D. student in Biology at SDU, DK
  • 2017-2018: Jakob Bang Rønning – B.Sc. thesis and ISA project (ca. 9 months in total). Now Ph.D. student at SDU, DK
  • 2017: Viktor Hundtofte Mebus – B.Sc. ISA project (3 months). Now Ph.D. student at Uni. Copenhagen, DK
  • 2016: Rie Pors – B.Sc. ISA project (3 months). Rie is now working as an assistant marine environmental scientist at FURGO, Scotland, UK
  • 2015: Marius Florescu – Lab technician trainee (6 months). Marius is now working as a service technician at Ametec STC, DK