Bent Petersen

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BP has a background in Biotechnology and Bioinformatics from The Technical University of Denmark, DTU, and has been working in the Bioinformatics field for the last 13 years. He is a senior member of the Computational Biodiscovery group at the GLOBE institute, where he is utilizing his thorough experience in machine learning to advance projects that aim to decipher the medicinal potential of the Rainforest. BP brings in expertise in genomics and metagenomics and work extensively with Next Generation Sequencing data. He actively uses this expertise to start new collaborations with scientific groups from all over the world to expand the groups project portfolio with exciting projects within NGS, phage biology, rainforest biology, Supercomputing and Machine Learning. His long term experience in teaching and previous position as Head of Studies from DTU, allowed him to develop excellent educational skills resulting in broad appreciation from former students. BP has within the last few years been giving international mobile workshops in NGS, metagenomics and bioinformatics in Brazil, China, Colombia, Egypt, India, Malaysia and at the Faroe Islands.