Curriculum Vitae for Søren Højsgaard

Personal information

Danish citizen, born November 14., 1964

Current affiliation

Senior Scientist, MSc, PhD
Institute of Genetics and Biotechnology,
Faculty of Agricultural Sciences, Aarhus University
Research Centre Foulum
8830 Tjele, Denmark.

Phone: +45 89 99 17 03
Fax: +45 89 99 12 00
E-mail: sorenh@agrsci.dk
Homepage: http://genetics.agrsci.dk/~sorenh

Academic degrees

M. Sc. degree in mathematics and a minor in computer science from Aalborg University, 1991.
Ph. D. in statistics from Department of Mathematics, Aalborg University, 1999.

Education and positions

Teaching assistant, Department of Mathematics, Aalborg University, 1991-1992.
Scientist, Biometry Reseach Unit, Faculty of Agricultural Sciences, Aarhus University, 1994-2001
Senior Scientist, Statistics and Decision Analysis Reseach Unit, Faculty of Agricultural Sciences, Aarhus University, 2001-present
Head of Statistics and Decision Analysis Reseach Unit, 2003-2008.

Teaching

I have given several courses to researchers and Ph.D. students with backgrounds in agronomy, biology, veterinary sciences etc. I have also given courses for Ph.D. students of statistics.

Masters and PhD students

Jørgen Vinsløv Hansen, Ph.D-student (Jointly with Jens Ledet Jensen, Aarhus University); 2005-2008
Ragnar Jonsson and Trausti Bjørgvinsson, Masters project (Jointly with Mogens Blanke, Technical University of Denmark); 2006-2007:
Ragnar Jonsson, Ph.D-stundet (Jointly with Mogens Blanke, Technical University of Denmark); 2007-present
Malene Trinderup, Masters project (Masters of Applied Statistics); 2007-present:

Project management

In 2007, I completed a course on Research Management held by Copenhagen Business School.

2006-2010: Project leader of the 6 mio DKK "AUREGAB" research project on automated monitoring of behaviour of cows. Funded by the Danish Research Council for Strategic Research.

2007-2010: Work package leader in the 20 mio DKK "ILSORM" project funded by the Danish National Advanced Technology Foundation and private industry. My work package on statistical models and decision support has a 4.5 mio DKK budget.

2007-2011: Work package leader in the 38 mio DKK "BIOSENS" project funded by the Danish National Advanced Technology Foundation and private industry. My work package on new statistical methods for online data has a 3.7 mio DKK budget.

Visiting positions

Visiting scholar, Dept. of Statistics, Catholic University of Chile, Santiago, Chile, 1992
Visiting scholar, Division of Mathematics and Statistics, CSIRO, 1993
Visiting scholar, Dept. of Mathematics, University of Western Australia, Perth, Australia, 1993
Visiting scholar, Dept. of Statistics, University of Washington, Seattle, USA, 1996
Visiting fellow, Dept. of Statistics, Oregon State University, Corvallis, USA, 1999
Visiting fellow, Dept. of Mathematics, University of Bristol, UK, 2007-2008

External posts

Member of the board of the Danish Research School on biostatistics, 2004-
Member of the steering group behind the Master of Applied Statistics (MAS) programme, 2002-2008

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