Eight new appointments at ENSPAC now official
Based on the solid and thorough work in evaluation committees followed by appointment committees, we have now succeeded in appointing eight new academic staff members
We have had very many good applicants to choose among. Therefore I have had the luxurious problem to select the best, most talented and most potential applicants in respect to research, teaching and contributing to develop our department.
The appointments imply an interesting push to the department, implementing the generation shift with support from the university’s carrier fund. And we employ several international applicants, who will all be offered language training, and by the way they all already have some connection with Denmark/Scandinavia. Thereby we get a stronger department with excellent researchers, important to students, colleagues, our relation to society and our possibilities for external funding.
Below you can read a short presentation of the eight new VIPs at ENSPAC:
Tatiana Matejskova will begin as assistant professor at Mobility and Urban Studies on 1 September 2013 and she will among others teach in the International Social Science Bachelor Program. Tatiana comes from Slovakia with a M.A. in Political Science from 2001, while she also has both a M.A. and PhD in geography 2011 from University of Minnesota, US. She has been a post doc in the Central European University, Hungary, and a lecturer at Loughborough University, UK.
Julia Christensen will begin as assistant professor at Mobility and Urban Studies on 1 December 2013, starting with planning her teaching in the 2014 spring term. Julia comes from Canada, where she has her BA in geography and international relations from University of British Columbia, her MA in geography from University of Calgary and her PhD in geography from McGill University, 2011. She has had a post doc at the University of British Columbia.
Sidsel Lond Grosen begins her assistant professorship at Working Life on 1 September 2013, and she will start teaching in Working Life and in the Social Science Bachelor Program. Sidsel comes from Roskilde University with a MA in Public Administration, 2002, and PhD in Working Life, 2009. She has already been employed in one project funded assistant professorship. Her research interests and publications are mainly about technologies of governing and gender in working life.
Ditte-Marie From begins her assistant professorship at Health Promotion on 1 September 2013, teaching in Health Promotion and in the Social Science Bachelor Program. Ditte-Marie has her BA in International Development Studies, 2001, her MA in Pedagogics, 2004 and her PhD in Health Promotion, 2012, from Roskilde University. She was employed in Copenhagen Municipality 2005-2007 and has been a project funded researcher in the Department of Psychology and Educational Studies (PAES) since 2011.
Nicole Thualagant will begin as assistant professor at Health Promotion on 1 September 2013 and especially she will teach at the International Social Science Bachelor Program. Nicole has a French/Danish background. She is bachelor in Culture and Language studies from RU 2002 and in Sociology from Copenhagen University 2004, MSc in Social Science in Sociology from Copenhagen University 2007 (incl. 1 year study in Paris). She has been PhD student at Department of Nutrition, Exercise and Sports at Copenhagen University 2009-2012 where she finished her PhD by defending the thesis “Fitness Doping and Body Management: An Explorative Study of Body Investment Practices”. She comes from a position as part-time associate professor at the Department of Nutrition, Exercise and Sports; and the Department of Political Science at Copenhagen University.
Farhan Khan begins his assistant professorship at Environmental Risk on 1 September 2013, and his teaching will contribute to Environmental Risk and Environmental Biology. Farhan comes from England, and leaves a position as post doc at Heriot Watt University, Edinburgh. He has a BSc in Biological Science, 2000, and PhD in Environmental Science, 2008, from King’s College, London. Since, then he has also been employed at Wilfried Laurier University, Canada, and at Natural History Museum, UK. Farhan has published a series of articles in international journals as first author within ecotoxicology, on the effects of metals in the environment, recently focussing on nanoparticles.
Kristian Syberg begins his assistant professorship at Environmental Risk on 1 September 2013, and we will have to make sharp priorities on where he shall teach among Environmental Risk, TekSam, Health Promotion and Environmental Biology. Kristian comes from Roskilde University with a BSc in Environmental Biology, 2002, MSc in TekSam and Environmental Biology, 2005, and PhD in Ecotoxicology and Environmental Planning, 2010. He has already been employed in one project funded assistant professorship. Kristian’s research and publications contains a special interdisciplinary combination of natural and social science contributions, with a focus on toxic effects of mixtures combined with risk assessment and environmental regulation.
Lauren P. Seaby begins her post doc at Environmental Risk later this autumn, conditional on her PhD. Her PhD in Hydrology was submitted and is under evaluation at University of Copenhagen. She has been employed as a PhD student at GEUS in Copenhagen since 2009. Lauren comes from US. She has a BA in Geography and Environmental Resources from Western Washington University 2001 and a MSc in Geography and Watershed Science from San Diego State University 2006. Furthermore she has had a number of jobs both in research and practical environmental planning, among others as a GIS analyst at the Pacific Disaster Center, Hawaii 2002-2003 and in the city administration of San Francisco 2006-2009.