Ida Moltke
Associate Professor
Computational and RNA Biology
Ole Maaløes Vej 5
2200 København N.
CV for Ida Moltke (updated June 2023)
PERSONAL INFORMATION
Name Ida Moltke
Website https://idamoltke.wordpress.com
ORCID 0000-0001-7052-8554
EDUCATION
2011 PhD, Dept. of Biology, UCPH. Advisor: Rasmus Nielsen
2007 MSc in Bioinformatics, Dept. of Biology, UCPH.
2005 BSc Computer Science (major) and Math (minor), UCPH.
CURRENT AND PREVIOUS ACADEMIC POSITIONS
2020- Associate professor, Dept. of Biology, UCPH, Denmark
2015-2019 Assistant professor, Dept. of Biology, UCPH, Denmark
2012-2014 Postdoc, Dept. of Human Genetics, University of Chicago
2011-2012 Postdoc, Dept. of Biology, UCPH.
LEAVES OF ABSENCE
2021-2022 ~10 months of maternity leave spread out over ~13 months
SCHOLARSHIPS AND PERSONAL GRANTS
2022 NNF funding to organize a conference (~100k dkk)
2021-2025 Carlsberg Foundation Young Researcher Fellowship (~5M dkk)
2019-2023 ERC starting grant 2018 (~1.5M€)
2019-2024 Villum Young Investigator Award 2018 (~5M dkk)
2018-2021 Innovation Fund Denmark, Industrial PhD (co-PI)
2016 L’Oréal–UNESCO For Women in Science Award (~100k dkk)
2015-2019 Young group leader grant YDUN, DFF (~6.5M dkk)
2012 Young Elite Researcher Award, DFF (~1M dkk)
2011-2013 Postdoc grant, DFF | Medical Sciences (~1.8M dkk)
2011 Postdoc grant, DFF | Natural Sciences (declined)
RECOGNITION, AWARDS AND ACADEMY MEMBERSHIPS
2016-2021 Selected to be a member of ”Det Unge Akademi”
2016 L’Oreal–UNESCO’s For Women in Science Award, Denmark
2015 SSSD Young Investigators Award
2015 Nominated for AcademiaNet
2012 Sapere Aude: DFF Young Elite Researcher Award
RECOGNITION AND AWARDS TO MY GROUP
2022 My PhD student Frederik won a Charles J. Epstein Award
2022 My PhD student Frederik won best PhD talk award at EPIC-DK
2022 My postdoc Cindy won best postdoc talk at EPIC-DK
SELECTED INVITED TALKS
2023 Dept. of Computational Biology, University of Lausanne
2021 DDLS conference, Stockholm (online)
2020 Collège de France, France (postponed due to COVID)
2020 Uppsala University (postponed due to COVID)
2019 An Australian Royal Academy of Sciences workshop, Sydney
2019 Keynote talk at ProbGen conference (declined)
2019 EMBL meeting, Heidelberg
2018 UCL, UK
2018 Keynote talk at Math&Comp. Evolutionary Biology, France
2017 Grønlands Medicinsk Selskab, Greenland
2017 EMBO workshop in Naples, Italy
2016 Probabilistic modelling in Genomics, University of Oxford
2016 University of Bern
2015 Genetic Epidemiology Symposium, Nantes
2015 The 50th SSSD meeting, Oslo
2014 ProbGen, Oxford University
SELECTED SOFTWARE
localNgsRelate Infers IBD segments in individuals from low-depth NGS data
NgsRemix Infers IBD in admixed individuals from low-depth NGS data
IBSrelate Infers relatedness from two low-depth NGS genomes
NgsRelate Infers IBD from low-depth NGS data
RelateAdmix Infers IBD among admixed individuals
COMMISSIONS OF TRUST
2023 Opponent at a PhD defense, Uppsala University, Sweden
2022-present PhD thesis committee member, University of Lausanne
2020 Chair of PhD committee at the GLOBE Institute, UCHP
2020 Invited reviewer for Vienna Science and Technology Fund
2020 Invited reviewer of an ERC starting grant
2017-present Co-editor of 4th edition of Handbook of Statistical Genomics
2012-present Reviewer for a range of journals, incl. Cell & Nature Genetics
ORGANISATION OF MEETINGS AND SEMINARS
2023 Organizer of a Danish population genetics meeting
2022 Organizer of an EMBO meeting, Heidelberg, Germany
2022 Organizer of a Danish population genetics meeting
2020 Organizer of online seminar series on population genetics
2019-present Organizer of monthly seminar on population genetics
2018 Organizer of department event about the future of publishing
2017 Programme committee member, ProbGen, Aarhus
2017 Organizer of a career seminar for PhD students
2016 Program committee member, Danish Bioinformatics meeting
PUBLIC OUTREACH
2019 Interviewed for a Danish national radio series called Sygt nok
2019 Organizer of a public meeting in Nuuk at the National Museum
2017 Organizer of a public meeting in Nuuk
2017 Invited talk at Vin&Videnskab
2016 Public talk for non-scientists at KDVS
2014-present Several interviews in Danish and Greenlandic public media
PUBLISHING STATISTICS (MAY 2023)
61 published/accepted peer-reviewed papers (14 in CNS)
Number citations in Scopus: 6471 (Google scholar: 10442)
H-index in Scopus: 34 (Google scholar H-index: 35)
BRIEF SUMMARY OF MY RESEARCH
The research in my group is focused on developing and applying statistical and computational methods to genomic data to answer questions within both population genetics and medical genetics. Within population genetics we are mainly aiming at gaining insights into how the human species evolved has and how the world was peopled. Within medical genetics we are mainly aiming at identifying genetic variants that play role in a number of different diseases and traits, such as type 2 diabetes, and at uncovering the underlying biological mechanism to gain biological insights. Importantly, to pursue these aims, we continuously develop new bioinformatics software tools, which we share freely with other researchers.
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True single-molecule DNA sequencing of a pleistocene horse bone
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Calculation of Tajima's D and other neutrality test statistics from low depth next-generation sequencing data
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A probabilistic model of RNA conformational space
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