Camilla Trab Damsgaard
Lektor
Ernæring og Sundhed
Nørre Allé 51
2200 København N
EMPLOYMENT
2023 – present Research group leader ¦ Lifecourse Nutrition & Health, Department of Nutrition, Exercise and Sports (NEXS), University of Copenhagen (KU), Denmark.
2014 – present Associate Professor of children's nutrition, NEXS, KU, Denmark.
2010 - 2014 Assistant Professor of paediatric nutrition, NEXS, KU.
2008 - 2010 Post doc, Nutrition and disease prevention, NEXS, KU.
Maternity leave: 12.11.08–23.09.09 (50 weeks in total)
EDUCATION & INTERNATIONAL EXCHANGE
2005 – 2008 PhD in Human Nutrition, Faculty of Life Sciences, KU.
2007 Research stay (2 months), University of Southampton, England.
2002 - 2005 MSc in Human Nutrition, Faculty of Life Sciences, KU.
2003 Exchange student (4 months), Cornell University, New York, USA.
1998-2002 BSc in Biology, Faculty of Science, KU.
LARGER RESEARCH GRANTS
Secured > 56 M DKK in research grants as PI, co-PI or WP lead the last 10 years:
- Generation Healthy Kids, 2022-2026 (29.4 M DKK, Novo Nordisk Foundation) (Leader of WP2 and WP6)
- PREPARE-CHILD - PRE-Pregnancy weight loss And Reducing CHILDhood overweight, 2022-2026 (4.4 M DKK, Novo Nordisk Foundation) (WP lead)
- Underweight among children in Denmark, 2022-2025 (2.0 M DKK, Novo Nordisk Foundation) (PI)
- KORN - Wholegrains and early prevention of lifestyle diseases, 2019-2021 (2.6 M DKK, Independent Research Fund Denmark) (PI)
- D-pro - Effects of milk protein and vitamin D on children’s growth and health), 2018-2022 (6.3 M DKK, Arla Food For Health) (PI)
- FiSK - Fish, children, health and cognition, 2016-2019 – research and communication project (Nordea-fonden) (PI for research, 9.0 M DKK)
- Vitamin D & children’s immune function, 2015-2017 (1.1 M DKK, Lundbeck Foundation) (PI)
- ODIN Junior - Vitamin D trial, 2013-2017 (WP4, 3.1 M DKK, EU-commission) (Co-PI)
- HAPFAM, 2013-2017 (WP5, 4.8 M DKK, Innovation Fund Denmark) (Investigator)
COURSES IN LEADERSHIP AND RESEARCH MANAGEMENT
2022 LUKU-basis, Leader Development Programme, KU.
2019 Leading Research, KU.
2014 Good Clinical Practice (GCP) and Monitoring, NEXS, KU.
2012 Leadership Programme for Women, Implement Consulting and KU.
2010 Project Management for Researchers, Implement Consulting, Copenhagen.
2007 European Nutrition Leadership Platform Programme, Wageningen University, NL.
APPOINTMENTS AND BOARD POSITIONS
2023- Advisory Board Member, Center for Childhood Health (Center for Sundt Liv og Trivsel), Denmark
2023-2024 Scientific Committee, Nordic Nutrition Conference 2024 in Bergen, Norway.
2022-2023 Organizing committee for two symposia within Lifecourse nutrition at the 14th European Nutrition Conference in Belgrade in 2023, in a joint European collaboration.
2021-2022 Organizing committee for the 1st Nutrition summer school 2022 in Helsinki, in collaboration with the other Nordic nutrition societies.
2020- Representing Denmark in Working group on Improving Standards in the Science of Nutrition, Federation of European Nutrition Societies (FENS).
2020-2021 Writing group member of the report "Nordic diet, health and sustainability", Danish Council for Prevention, Denmark.
2019- President of the Danish Nutrition Society, Denmark
2015- Editor, British Journal of Nutrition, The Nutrition Society, UK
2018-2019 Editorial Board Member, Journal of Nutrition, American Society for Nutrition, USA
ACADEMIC AWARDS
2017 SCIENCE Dissemination Award (25.000 DKK), KU.
2012 New Investigator Award, ISSFAL Society, Vancouver, Canada.
2012 The FLIK-Prize 2012 (10.000 DKK), The Danish Association of Food Scientists.
2009 LIFE Academic Prize 2009 (10.000 DKK), Faculty of Life Sciences, KU.
INVITED TALKS AND CONGRESS CHAIR ACTIVITIES
2023 Chair & invited speaker, Nutrition and Early Life symposium, FENS Conference, Belgrade, Serbia.
2022 Invited speaker, EU-funded INSUM workshop on nutrition and somatic health indicators, Warsaw University of Life Sciences, Poland / online.
2018 Chair & Invited Speaker, LOM Conference, Lifestyle, Obesity and Metabolic research, KU
2017 Session Chair, Vitamin D and Health in Europe Conference, Cork, Ireland.
2017 Invited speaker, Symposium on dietary vitamin D requirements, European Commission, Brussels, Belgium.
2016 Invited speaker, Nutrition Congress 2016, Somerset-West, South Africa.
2016 Congress chair & evaluator of Young Investigator Awards, the 12th ISSFAL Conference, Stellenbosch, South Africa.
2006-2023 >52 scientific abstracts presented at international conferences.
YOUNG RESEARCHER SUPERVISION & ASSESSMENT
2021-2022 Mentor for a Tenure Track Assistant Professor, KU
2013-2023 Principal supervisor of 8 PhD students and co-supervisor of 3 PhD students.
2015-2019 Head of assessment committee or Assessor for 4 PhD candidates.
2005-2023 Supervisor of 35 MSc students, 7 BSc students and 9 other project students.
PUBLICATION OVERVIEW
- 90 peer-reviewed original research articles in international scientific journals
- 2 editorials in international scientific journals
- 1 comment, 1 book chapter, 1 scientific paper in Danish
- H-index: 27 (Web of Science, June 2023)
- Total no. of citations: 9,277.
Uddannelse
PhD (Nutrition)
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The effects of fish oil and high or low linoleic acid intake on fatty acid composition of human peripheral blood mononuclear cells
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The effect of dietary fish oil-supplementation to healthy young men on oxidative burst measured by whole blood chemiluminescence
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Eicosapentaenoic acid and docosahexaenoic acid in whole blood are differentially and sex-specifically associated with cardiometabolic risk markers in 8-11-year-old Danish children
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