Klavs Martin Sørensen

Adjungeret lektor

ORCID: 0000-0002-5117-1315

Scientific methods

Highly skilled in vibrational spectroscopy (apparatus design, experiment design, theory & applications)
Highly skilled in the use of chemometric tools (PCA, PLS, PLSDA etc.), their application and theory
Highly skilled in Gas Chromatography & Mass Spectrometry (GCMS, GC-FID), injection methods, equipment operation, maintenance, experimental design and data evaluation)
Very skilled in application of Solid Phase Micro-Extraction (SPME) techniques for GC/MS applications
Skilled in application of static headspace sampling techniques for GC/MS applications
Very skilled in application of automatic handling (derivatization etc) for large volume sample counts
Very skilled in application of thermal adsorption/desorption sampling techniques & equipment for GC/MS applications
Fair skills in several mathematical disciplines (emphasis on matrix algebra)
Fair skills in statistics (application and theory)
Very skilled in ultrasonic measurement and image-forming techniques, their theory and application
Entry-level knowledge of relativistic and quantum physics
Robotics for online measurement, control systems and integration
Fair skills in artificial intelligence modelling and deep learning systems on time series data

Project management, 15 years experience in

IT and Software development

20+ years’ experience in C++ and C
20+ years’ experience with HTML/PHP web programming
20+ years’ experience in relational database design (primarily Oracle 8-10i, MySQL and PorstgreSQL. Minor experience with SQL Server)
20+ years’ experience with the Linux operating system, including the kernel framework (from 2.4 onwards) for
device driver development. Particular focus on system development for real-time on-line data processing systems and their associated GUIs.
20+ years’ experience developing applications in the Qt framework
20+ years’ experience with the Matlab programming language and framework, including external c/c++ mex interfaces (rapid data access, parallel threaded calculus - emphasis on chemometric applications)
Fair experience in use of the CUDA computing platform
High experience with “minor” languages from the Linux toolbox (Bash shell scripting, awk, perl, regexp etc).
Very familiar with the Intel performance primitives and Math Kernel Libraries
Very skilled in Python programming
Fair experience with development, implementation and use of camera interfaces and vision applications, emphasis on quality grading of meat products
Fair experience with PLC programming (Allen-Bradley Micrologix)
Fair experience with software development for embedded controllers
Fair skills in hardware design and schematic interpretation, primarily digital applications

Prices and awards

2019: Awarded "Course of the year" by the Department of Food Science for "Rapid Food Analysis Method"
2019: Rewarded the 2019 Niels Foss Talent Prize
2020: Nominated by the B.Sc. students on the Food Science education as Faculty teacher of the year

Education, Highlights

June, 1998 - Engineering Technician, Electronics, HND Frederiksberg Tekniske Skole,
Denmark
January 2012 - Participant in the DNATF-funded Pasteur-program (project manager), Harvard Executive Education, Harvard University, Cambridge, USA
April, 2015 – Ph.d. in Food Technology, University of Copenhagen

Activities highlights

January 2012 - Participant in the DNATF-funded "Pasteur program: Leading the Virtual Company”, a project manager education designed and executed by Harvard University, Cambridge, USA, targeting management of projects where innovation between private companies and public research institutions plays a significant role.
2008 – 2011 - Project manager on the Danish National Advanced Technology Foundation sponsored project "NitFom"
2012-2014: Project manager on the Danish National Advanced Technology Foundation sponsored project "ENCMP"
Jan 2009 - now: Censor on the BSc/MSc course "Quantitative Food Spectroscopy"
Jan 2017: Responsible for and teacher on the course “Rapid Food Quality Analysis Methods”, a 5 ETCS point mandatory course for all BSc. Students on the Food Science (Technology specialization).
Feb 2017: Case instructor on the course “Quantiative Data Analysis”, a mandatory course for all BSc. Students on the Food Science.
2016, 2017: Key responsible member of the organizing committee for the 2017 International Conference On Near-Infrared Spectroscopy (ICNIRS 2017)
2016-2028: Project manager on the project “Better utilization of protein side streams”
2018-2020: PI & Project manager on the project “QC-CREW”
2018-2021: PI & Project manager on the project “SayCheese”

Miscellaneous

Fair experience with 3D visual expression and modeling of technical illustrations and animations using the Blender VFX pipeline

Relevant Employment

June, 1998: Product engineer. SFK Technology A/S, Herlev (now Carometec A/S).
December, 1999: Software engineer, database- and data collection systems. SFK Technology A/S, Herlev (now Carometec A/S).
April, 2001: Development engineer (algorithms and modeling). SFK Technology A/S,Herlev (Now Carometec A/S).
January, 2002: Research- and development manager. SFK Technology A/S, Herlev (Now Carometec A/S)
August, 2009: Research scientist, University of Copenhagen - Part-time (50%) employment.
June, 2012: Senior Specialist (Chemometrics), Carometec A/S. Part-time employment.
June, 2012: Ph.d. fellow, University of Copenhagen
April, 2015 - Postdoc, Department of Food Science, University of Copenhagen.
March 2017 – Associate professor, Department of Food Science, University of Copenhagen.

Danish - Native proficiency
English - Full professional proficiency (with high technical emphasis)
German - Limited professional proficiency
8+ years experience in sales presentation/assisting, technical presentations, non-technical formulation

Ph.D.

ID: 38297219

Institut for Fødevarevidenskab