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Young Academy Panel

The DDSA Young Academy Panel collaborates with the DDSA secretariat in organising recurrent DDSA events, such as the annual conference, the annual Pre-Graduate Retreat, the Mentoring Programme, the ‘Ask Me Anything’ webinar series, and other events. The Panel also provides feedback on new initiatives, events, and activities to the DDSA Education & Networking Committee, and on the DDSA’s strategy and activities to the DDSA Board of Directors. The Young Academy Panel consists of 15 members across sectors who are all young data scientists in the beginning of their career with data science as a central component of their current position or education.

 

DDSA Young Academy Panel II 

January 2024 – December 2026

Anastassia Vybornova

(Chair)
Postdoc Student

University of Copenhagen

Elena Dudukina

(VICE-Chair)
Senior Epidemiologist

Novo Nordisk, Department of Rare Diseases and Advanced Therapies

Anders Gjølbye Madsen

 

DDSa PhD Fellow

Technical University of Denmark, Mathematical Modelling and Computation

Patrycja Lebiecka-Johansen

Industrial Postdoc 

Aarhus University, Department of Electrial and Computer Engineering /T&W Engineering

Teresa Dorszewski

PhD Student

DTU, Department of Applied Mathematics and Computation

Sarah Stougaard

PhD Student

University of Southern Denmark, Dept. of Clinical Research, and Odense University Hospital, Research Unit of Oncology

Jacob Fredegaard Hansen

Data Scientist

SDU, Department of Biochemestry and Molecular Biology

Søren Emil Skaarup

Bachelor’s Student

Aarhus University, Mathematics

John Robert Shorter

Assistant Professor

Roskilde University, Department of Science and Environment

Marianne Helenius

Postdoc

Rigshospitalet, Paediatric Oncology Research Laboratory (Bonkolab)

Louis Boucherie

(From Sep 2025)
Postdoc

Technical University of Denmark & University of Copenhagen

Zoe Ansari

Senior Data Scientist

ESG, Risk Methods and Analytics

Viktor Stenby Johansson

Industrial PhD Student

Technical University of Denmark, Dept. of Applied Mathematics and Computation, and Vipps Mobilepay

Kenneth Borup

Senior Machine Learning Scientist

Trifork

Daniel Murnane

(from June 2025)

DDSA Postdoc Fellow

University of Copenhagen, Niels Bohr Institute

Livie Li

(From June 2025)
PhD student

Aarhus University, Dept. Of Public Health, and Steno Diabetes Center Aarhus

Kasper Tolborg

(From June 2025)
Tenure Track Assistant Professor

Aalborg University, Dept. of Chemistry and Bioscience

About the DDSA Young Academy Panel

YAP meets twice a year for a physical half- or full-day meeting, and for a two-hour virtual meeting in the remaining months excluding July and December.

The members are in the early stages of their career. For academia, this means bachelor’s and master’s students, PhD, Postdoc, and assistant professor level at the time of the application deadline.

A Panel member can still apply for DDSA grants.

The Young Academy Panel works in accordance with DDSA Conflicts of Interest. 

Previous Young Academy Panel Members

Jonas Friedrich
(January 2024 – September  2025)

Manufacturing Intelligence Engineer, Novo Nordisk

Yossi Bokor Bleile
(January 2024 – June 2025)

Postdoc, Department of Mathematical Scienes at Aalborg Univeristy
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