Jonathan Thorsen
Associate Professor, MD, PhD
Equal parts medical doctor, data scientist and bioinformatician, I study 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. I
am 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.
I was awarded the DFF Sapere Aude Research Leader grant in 2023, in which
I currently supervise Anton Kjellberg, MSc during his PhD work, and co-
supervise other PhD students. I was in the BRIDGE Translational Excellence
postdoc programme at Uni. Copenhagen. I am an associate professor at the
Department of Clinical Medicine, University of Copenhagen and teach Data in
Medicine for medical students.
