Jill Katharina Olofsson

Jill Katharina Olofsson

Assistant Professor

ACADEMIC ACHIEVEMENTS

2012-2015: PhD in Forensic Medicien, Forensic Genetics (Thesie: "Forensic and population genetic studies of the human Y chromosome"), Section of Forensic Genetics, Institute of Forensic Medicine, Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark.

2008-2010: Master of Medical Science, Forensic Science (Thesis: "The value of Y-STR analysis in sexual assault cases"), Faculty of Medicine, Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden (performed at the Section of Forensic Genetics, Institute of Forensic Medicine, Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark).

2007-2008: Studies at the Master Program of Biomedicine, Faculty of Medicine, Lund University, Lund, Sweden.

2003-2007: Bachelor of Science, Honours in Genetics ("Thesis: Characterization of two regions in the human X Inactive Specific Transcript, XIST"), Faculty of Science, University of British Colombia, Vancouver, Canada. 

 

RESEARCH AND TRAINING

2019-presentMarie Curie Independent postdoctoral fellow (Research: "Biogeography and natural hybridization in the genus Mentha"), GLOBE Institute, Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences, Copenhagen University, Denmark.

2015-2019: Postdoctoral research associate (Research: Population genomics of the tropical grass Alloteropsis and the evolutionary origin of complex traits), Department of Animal and Plant Sciences, University of Sheffield, UK.

2011-2015: Educational position, including PhD degree, Section of Forensic Genetics, Institute of Forensic Medicine, Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences, University of Copenhagen, Denmark.

2010- 2011: Forensic genetics assistance, Section of Forensic Genetics, Faculty of Forensic Medicine, Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences, Copenhagen University, Denmark.

June- Aug2009: Student helper, Section of Forensic Genetics, Faculty of Forensic Medicine, Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences, Copenhagen University, Denmark.

June-Aug 2008: Summer scholarship student (Research: ”Expression of serotonin in rat brain, an animal model of Parkinson’s “) Dr. Angela Cenci-Nilsson’s laboratory, Faculty of Medicine, Lund University, Sweden.

June-Aug 2007: Summer scholarship student (Research: “Detection of a deletion on chromosome 6 with fluorescent in-situhybridisation (FISH) in acute lymphatic lymphoma (ALL)”) Dr. Bertil Johansson’s laboratory, Faculty of Medicine, Lund University,  Sweden.

May-June 2006: Research studentvolunteer (Research: “X chromosome studies and breast and ovarian carcinoma”) Dr. Wendy Robbinson’s laboratory Child & Family Research Institute, Department of Medical Genetics, Faculty of Medicine, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada.

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