Mikkel Pedersen
Tenure-track Assistant Professor At Globe Instute at Evolutionary Ecology Group, University of Cambridge
Copenhagen, Capital Region of Denmark
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Top SchoolMikkel Pedersen is a tenure-track Assistant Professor and group leader at the Globe Institute, University of Copenhagen, with a decade of experience in palaeoecology, ancient DNA, and Quaternary climate research. He combines fieldwork and lab-based aDNA extraction with bioinformatic analysis to reconstruct Pleistocene–Holocene environmental change and past Arctic ecosystems. His work has tackled big questions such as migration routes into the Americas and long-term climate transitions, blending geoinformatics, plant biology, and sedimentary DNA methods. Previously a postdoctoral researcher at Cambridge and at the Centre for GeoGenetics, he brings both collaborative international experience and hands-on technical skills in sequencing and error-correction pipelines. Based in Copenhagen, he welcomes media inquiries on past climates and long-term climate change, reflecting an ability to translate complex palaeo-science for broader audiences. An often-overlooked strength is his early background in GIS and database design, which underpins his quantitative approach to paleoenvironmental inference.
10 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Master, Geography & Geoinformatics, Quaternary Geology, Plant biology, Master, Geography & Geoinformatics, Quaternary Geology, Plant biology at Københavns Universitet - University of CopenhagenStudent, Højere Forberedelses eksamen, Student, Højere Forberedelses eksamen at Herlev Gymnasium
English
Github Skills (14)
sequencing7
illumina7
bioinformatics6
filter6
preprocessing6
fastq6
duplication6
adapter6
preprocessor5
bam5
cpp5
filtering4
overlap4
umi2
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
miwipe/KapCopenhagen
Feb 2022 - Aug 2022
Contributions:38 commits, 2 pushes, 1 comment in 6 months
GeoGenetics/aeGenomicsCourse2023
Sep 2023 - Sep 2024
Contributions:58 pushes in 11 months
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