Dr. Palle Duun Rohde is an Associate Professor at the Genomic Medicine, Department of Health Science and Technology, Aalborg University. He received his M.Sc. in Biology from the Department of Bioscience, Aarhus University, Denmark in 2015 and his Ph.D. in Genetics from the Center for Quantitative Genetics and Genomics, Department of Molecular Biology and Genetics, Aarhus University, Denmark in 2017. His research focus is on computational genomics and statistical genetics using different data science disciplines and mathematical models to better understand the genotype–phenotype map. He has a strong scientific interest in developing, implementing, and applying strategies for integrating prior biological knowledge across databases, studies, and organisms for understanding the biology of multifactorial phenotypes.
Dr. Torsten Nygaard Kristensen is a Professor at the Department of Chemistry and Bioscience, Aalborg University, Denmark. He received his Master of Science (2001) and his Ph.D. (2004) from the Department of Bioscience, Aarhus University (AU). His main research focus is on understanding the genetic and physiological architecture of complex traits including human diseases and on identifying mechanisms that constrain and enforce adaptation to stressful environments. Related to this, he has a strong interest in conservation genetics where his research focuses on the genetic characterization of endangered wild and domestic populations and on finding solutions to genetic challenges such as genetic drift and inbreeding in small populations.
