Jakob
Fredslund, Ph.D., Curriculum Vitæ
Grants:
June
2005: Forskningsrådet for Teknologi
og Produktion
(Danish Research Council for Technology and Production), funding for 18 months
for the project “Designing primers for quantitative-PCR of transcription factor
genes in crops”.
October
2005: Forskningsrådet for Udviklingsforskning
(Danish Council for Development Research), funding for 12 months for the project ”Bioinformatics support for breeding programs in
rice and bean with focus on iron homeostasis”. Funding declined due to the
other grant received.
Scientific positions:
1998
: Research Assistant for three months with
LEGO–Lab, the robotics group at
March
2002 – March 2003: Assistant professor at
(BiRC),
March
2003 – September 2003: Assistant professor at BiRC,
extension. The extension
was for a full year but I
switched to the project mentioned below.
October
2003 – October 2005: Assistant professor at BiRC on
the project
“Bioinformatics, marker assisted
breeding and map based cloning”, funded by a
Danish Agricultural and Veterinary
Research Council (SJVF) grant. Grant holder Professor Jens Stougaard.
From August 2004 to November 2004 I was on paternity leave (four months on
half-time).
November
2005 – April 2007: Assistant professor at BiRC on the
project “Designing
primers for quantitative-PCR
of transcription factor genes in crops”, funded by
the Danish Research
Council for Technology and Production.
Other work and activities:
1996 : Freelance-model
designer for Danish toy manufacturer LEGO.
1997 : Software-tester
with company Dtech Translation for two months.
1999 : Co-designer
of music playing LEGO robots with expressive faces and gestures
for the LEGO company.
2001 : Co–programmer and co–robot-designer on
the Jungle Cube LEGO multimedia
installation, a project under the
LEGO–Lab.
http://www.legolab.daimi.au.dk/Projects/JungleCube.dir/index.html
2003 : Robot
designer on the Innerspace
LEGO multimedia installation, a project
under the LEGO–Lab.
http://www.legolab.daimi.au.dk/Projects/NanoCube.dir/index.html
2005 : Built
the humanoid LEGO robot Dr. Watson,
http://www.daimi.au.dk/~chili/DrWatson/
2006 : Submitted
a book proposal for a “Python for Bioinformaticians”
educational
programming book. Following
encouraging reviews, my editor at Wiley
Publishing has urged me
to widen the scope of the book and resubmit it.
Education & communication:
1996 : Gave
private tutoring lessons in mathematics to high school student.
1997 : Advisor
at education fair for high school students.
1998,
1999, 2000 : Co–planned and –hosted the computer
science booth at the annual
Danish Natural Sciences Festival
and University of
Fair in Århus.
1998 : Co–planned and –demonstrated a LEGO
football stadium, exhibited at the
Robot Soccer World Cup
in
1999 : Co-demonstrated an interactive LEGO football
project for children under the
RoboCup Junior event held in
connection with Robot Soccer World Cup in
2001 : Jakob
Fredslund, Maja J Matarić,
Robot Formations. In AliveArt Handbook,
Educational CD-ROM,
Elisa Giaccardi and
2003
: Appearance
and interview in the promotion film for the Natural Sciences Den
Hotteste Forskning (2003), directed
by Mette Thybo, distributed
on schools nation-wide.http://www.sdu.dk/Nat/fak/nyheder/show_news.php?id=73&lang=dk
2004,
2005 :
Appearance of my robot Feelix in two
children’s books about robots:
Robotics
(cool science), Helena Domaine, Lerner Publications (ISBN
0822521121)
2005, and Robot (eyewitness), Rodger Francis
Bridgman, Dorling Kindersley (ISBN 0756602548) 2004.
2005 : Co-planner and participant in a public
Science Café during the national Day of
Research, May 12th.
2005 : Authored the article Superjordnøddernes Hemmelighed
Aktuel Naturvidenskab,
6:12-15, December 2005
2006
: Interviewed
live by Østjyllands Radio (estimated 150.000
listeners) about my research for the morning show “Hvad
forsker de i?”. Broadcast
available at http://www.daimi.au.dk/~chili/Formidling/radiointerview17_1_2006.mp3
(20 minutes in Danish, file size about 7 Mb).
2006 : Co-hosted
and -planned a visit at BiRC of 25 school children at
BiRC, Oct. 25th.
2006 : Judge
in the Oct. 28th Danish qualifying competition for the World Robot
Olympics in China 2006. See article from paper metroXpress.
Presentations:
1999 : Seminar speaker at the Department of
Artificial Intelligence, University of
2003
: BiRC seminar
speaker. Presentation on gap graphs available here.
2003
: Conference talk at WABI 2003 in
2004
: Speaker at the Bioinformatics Day held
at
2005 : Seminar
speaker at the Danish
Centre Flakkebjerg.
Invited by: Research Professor, D.Sc. Preben
Bach Holm. Presentation available here.
2005
: Speaker at the Bioinformatics and
Systems Biology Day held at
Educational background:
1972 : Year
of birth.
1988 - 1991 : Tørring
Amtsgymnasium. Score (average grade):
10,5.
1991 : Accepted
at
1995 : Minor
subject in mathematics.
1998
: Master´s
Degree with major subject in computer science (robotics). Thesis entitled
(English translation): “Intelligent behavior without
intelligence”. Grade: 11.
1998 : Accepted
at
1999 : Visited
Professor John Hallam’s robotics group at the Department of Artificial
Intelligence,
2000
– 2001 : Spent nine months as a graduate student at
the Robotics Interaction Lab
at
with lab director Professor Maja J
Matarić.
2002 : Ph.D.
in computer science.
Hobby projects:
I
maintain the webpage www.palindromer.dk
with hundreds of palindromes (in Danish), a large fraction of which are
authored by me.
My
fairy tale generator http://www.daimi.au.dk/~chili/Eventyr/
writes random fairy tales (in Danish).
Mostly
I read books, play soccer and play and write music – and love playing with my
two children.
Long travels:
1995 : Four months in
1999 : Four months in
