Jonathan Thorsen
MD, PhD
Equal parts medical doctor, data scientist and bioinformatician, Jonathan studies how newborns are colonized and interact with bacteria in early life, and what that means for the child’s immune development and risk of diseases later in life. He is particularly interested in integrating complex datasets from longitudinal birth cohorts to unravel biological mechanisms underpinning disease processes before onset of symptoms and to move toward novel strategies for disease prevention and treatment. His overarching research focus is the role of the airway microbiome in asthma development. He works in the microbiome group as a senior researcher.
2014 – MD, Uni. Copenhagen
2018 – PhD, Uni. Copenhagen (COPSAC)
2019-21 – BRIDGE postdoc, Uni Copenhagen, Center for Basic Metabolic Research (Arumugam group)
