CV, Kasper Planeta Kepp
Professor MSO, Technical University of Denmark
E-mail: kpj@kemi.dtu.dk. Web: www.kpje.com
Personal information
Born 23/7 1975. Citizenship: Danish. 2 children (7 and 9 years), married.
Work
09.2016 − Professor MSO, DTU Chemistry
01.2012 to 08.2016 Associate Professor, DTU Chemistry
01.2009 to 12.2011 FNU Steno Fellow (Associate Professor), DTU Chemistry.
09.2007 to 12.2007 Visiting Scholar, Stanford University.
01.2007 to 12.2008 VKR fellow, DTU Chemistry.
01.2005 to 12.2006 EMBO long-term postdoc fellow, Yale University.
Paternal and family leaves: Total 24 weeks. Dec 1–14 2009; Aug–Oct 2010; Nov 10–24 2011; July 30–Sep 2 2012; April 16-May 21 2018.
Education
11.2000 to 10.2004 Ph.D., Lund University. Defense: Oct. 29, 2004.
09.1997 to 10.2000 M.Sc. in chemistry, Copenhagen University.
09.1994 to 07.1997 B.Sc. in physics, B.Sc. in chemistry, Roskilde University (RUC).
Professional experience
1. Reviewer for internationals journals (~20/year), >100 reviews for ACS since 2007.
2. Course teaching: Coordination Chemistry 26124 at DTU (~65 students) and "Fundamental Chemistry", 26028, DTU (~140 students), Fundamental Chemistry for General Engineering, 26030 (150 students), 50% Modern Electronic structure Methods in Chemistry, 26263 (10 students). All courses run every year. Lectures in nanochemistry and bioinorganic chemistry courses.
3. Consultancy for World Anti-Doping Agency 2008−2010
4. Boards: a) MC member, EU COST action ECOSTBio, 2012−; b) Code of Conduct representative 2017−; c) Lecture Hall Technology DTU wide 2018-; d) DTU Board of Information Security, 2009-2015; e) President, Yale Nordic Soc. 2005-2006.
5. ~65 scientific presentations (talks and posters at meetings).
6. Recent invited talks at international conferences: EICC-4, Copenhagen July 2017, Danish Neuroscience Society meeting, Nyborg May 2017, ICPP-9 Nanjing July 2016, ECOSTBIO, Belgrade Aug 2015; ICCB, Hawaii July 2015; ICCMSE, Athens Apr 2014.
7. Reviewer, book proposals and national science foundations (UK, Austria, ERC consolidator).
Prizes and awards
National Young Elite Researcher Prize from DFF, 2009.
Steno Stipend, FNU (Danish Research Council), 2008.
EMBO Long Term Fellow, 2005-2006.
Novo Nordisk Scholarship Award for M.Sc. studies, 2000.
Fund raising as head applicant (~21M DKK as head applicant)
Research grant, DFF: “Development of an Accurate (½ kcal/mol) Protein Stability Calculator”, 2018.
Research grant, NNF: "Predicting Clinical Outcome of Mutations in Alzheimer’s disease", 2017.
Research grant, DFF: "Clinical-Chemical Relationships and Recipes for γ-Secretase Modulators", 2017.
Research grant, FNU: "Zinc and copper sites in Alzheimer’s disease", 2013.
Research grant, FTP: "Rational Evolution of Superstable Laccases", 2010.
Steno Stipend, DFF, 2009-2011.
Stanford visiting scholar grant, DFF, 2007.
VKR Postdoctoral Fellow 2007-2008.
Three grants, Danish Center for Scientific Computing, 2007-2012.
Funding as co-applicant
FTP project on laccases; Main PI: Prof. Anne Meyer, DTU Chem. Engineering, 2015. 20M DKK strategic research project; Main PI: Prof. Jørn D. Mikkelsen, DTU Chem. Engineering, 2010.
Communication skills / teaching
Nominated Best teacher of the Year, DTU 2013, 2014, 2015.
Innovation: Patent applications
"A mutant sialidase having trans-sialidase activity for use in production of sialylated glycans", WO2014167112, PCT/EP2014/057422 filed 16.10 2014. US patent application # 20160076013, 2016.
Project leadership
>60 corresponding author papers, ~18M DKK direct funded project leadership, incl. budget planning, application, recruiting, budget control, and scientific leadership of all projects. Co-management: 26M DKK (Strategic Research Council, FTP) and EU-COST action (ECOSTBio).
Funded research efficiency
~60 corresponding author papers from my funding, i.e. > 3 papers published per 1 M DKK funded.
International relationships
Postdoc at Yale and Stanford (W. L. Jorgensen and E. I. Solomon). MC member, ECOSTBio (head: prof. Marcel Swart); international-level consultancy (WADA); top international collaborators include E. Shakhnovich (Harvard), Li Ji (Zhejiang University, China), and Tom Blundell (Cambridge).
Group leadership / Supervision
Successfully finished: 3 postdoc, 3 Ph.D., 4 M.Sc., 11 B.Sc, 8 undergraduate projects.
Current: 3 postdocs, 1 Ph.D. student.
Publications and citations
107 full-length international publications (104 articles and 3 book chapters) with peer review.
82 corresponding author (84 incl. book chapters). 53 first-author (56 incl. book chapters)
Cited ~3800 times (Google Scholar) >3000 times (ResearcherID). i10 index = 66.
9 of 10 top-cited papers as first-author. H-index: 29 (Web of Science), 34 (Google Scholar).