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Karina K. Sand

Associate Professor

Orcid ID: 0000-0002-0720-7229 

Email:

Address:

Øster Voldgade 7

1350 CPH K

Denmark

Totals

Summary

-  Grant value as sole PI: ~2,804,800 EUR,

-  Research stays. USA, UK. Aarhus.

-  Abroad employment:  USA: 1.5 yr, UK: 3 yr.

-  Peer reviewed papers: 32  

-  Papers submitted: 2 

- Preprints pending review: 2
-  H-index 19 (G-scholar Jan. 2024)

Experimentalist working on the interface between geology, geochemistry, geomicrobiology and biophysics.

Specialty: Liquid cell in-situ techniques to explore and quantify bio-mineral interactions and dynamics.

 

Education

EXPERIENCE

2008-2011

PhD Fellow

UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN. DENMARK

Dept Chemistry. Faculty of Science.

Topic: Biomineralization and growth inhibition  by functional groups.

2007

MSc.

UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN. DENMARK

Dept of Geology. Faculty of Science

Topic: Geothermobarometric. Diamond potential of the mantle in southern west Greenland

EDUCATION

Positions

2019– current

Molecular Geobiology
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Associate Professor. 

GLOBE institute, Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences, UCPH.

2018 – 2019

BioGeoChemistry

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Associate Professor.

Dept. of Chemistry, Faculty of Science, UCPH, DK

2016 – 2020

BioGeoChemistry

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Ser Cymru II Research Fellow.

Geography& Earth Sciences, University of Aberystwyth. UK.

2012 – 2018

Biomineralization

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Assistant Professor

Dept. of Chemistry, Faculty of Science, UCPH, DK

2014 – 2016

Bio-mineral-microbe

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Research Associate.

Physical Science Division, Pacific NW National Laboratory, USA

2013 – 2014

Molecule-mineral-microbe

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Visiting Scholar.

Molecular Foundry, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, USA

2011 – 2012

Biomineralization

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Postdoctoral Fellow.

Dept. of Chemistry, Faculty of Science, UCPH, DK

Funding

Principle Investigator and sole applicant

2022 – 2026

~670.000 EUR

Carlsberg Foundation Young Researcher Fellowship

Mineral facilitated horizontal gene transport. -A new principle for the evolution of life?

2019 – 2024

~1.326.700 EUR

VILLUM Young Investigator

Propagation of antibiotic resistance genes in the environment: the role of mineral facilitated horizontal gene transfer.

~110.000 EUR

2018 – 2020

DFF-Danish ERC-programme grant

The significance of minerals in horizontal gene transfer: A new principle for evolution of life?

~322.500 EUR

2016 – 2020

Ser Cymru II Research Fellow

Kinetic and thermodynamic controls on CaCO3 formation during geologic carbon storage; constraining and applying the  influence of bacteria and clay.

~126,030 EUR

2015 – 2016

Sapere Aude Research Talent grant

The influence of electron transport and charge density on precipitation, growth and transformation of iron oxides in microbial  systems

2014 – 2015

~102,200 EUR

Research Fellowship at National Labs, USA

Extracellular influence on precipitation, growth and transformation mechanisms of iron oxides in microbial systems.

~147,800 EUR

2013 – 2014

Individual Post doc grant

Extracellular influence on precipitation, growth and transformation mechanisms of iron oxides in microbial systems.

Collaborative grants

2024 – 2027   ~676,700 EUR

Exploratory Interdisciplinary Synergy Programme

4  PI´s

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2023 – 2024   ~80,300 EUR

Project in the startup Category

Main PI

DNRF Center of excellence:

Ancient environmental genomics. 

Co-PI

2023 – 2028   ~9,800,000 EUR

Principal Investigator and host of EU HORISON Postdoctoral Fellows 

2024 – 2026   ~230,774 EUR

Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions: Individual Fellowship for Taru Verma

2021 – 2023   ~219,312 EUR

Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions: Individual Fellowship for Oluwatoosin Bummi Adebayo Agbaje

2020 – 2022    ~219,312 EUR

Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions: Individual Fellowship for Ioannis Kontopoulos

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