The Knud J. Jensen group

 

Knud J. Jensen studied chemistry and philosophy at the University of Copenhagen and philosophy at the Free University in Berlin, obtaining dual master degrees in 1987 and 1990. He completed his Ph.D. studies in synthetic bioorganic chemistry with Professsor Morten Meldal at the Carlsberg Laboratory in 1992. He then moved to the University of Minnesota as a postdoctoral fellow with professor George Barany in 1993-1996. From 1997 to 2001 he was first assistant professor  and then research associate professor at the Technical University of Denmark. He became associate professor at the University of Copenhagen, Faculty of Life Sciences (previously, KVL) in 2001 and full professor of nanobioscience in 2007.   Publications, courses, projects

 

 

Our research 

• Peptide synthesis
• Peptide and protein modification
• Peptide synthesis methodology
• Protein self-assembly
• Carbohydrate chemistry
• Nano-particle functionalization
• Nanodiscs for membrane-protein studies