Andreas Mæchel Fritzen is appointed associate professor
As of April 1., Andreas Mæchel Fritzen is appointed associate professor at Department of Biomedical Sciences. Andreas is moving from the Department of Nutrition, Exercise and Sports, where he has been an assistant professor since October 2021.
Andreas will be employed in a permanent position on the basis of the Department's open postings last year. Andreas will be part of the research theme Endocrinology and Metabolism and have his daily routine on 12.4.
Head of Department Cathrine Ørskov says: "We are looking forward to welcoming Andreas and to the exciting competences within the field of molecular lipid metabolism that he is bringing to the Department. His translational approach is a great match with the research made at the Department".
Andreas' research focuses on the endocrine and molecular mechanisms involved in metabolic homeostasis. Andreas is particularly interested in regulation of lipid metabolism and crosstalk between the liver and tissues such as skeletal and heart muscle, adipose tissue, and the brain. He utilizes both cell, rodent, and human studies and take advantage of dietary and exercise interventions to investigate physiological mechanisms. Andreas is at the moment working on determining how specific lipids, medium-chain fatty acids, signal in the body at the molecular level and exert their physiological effects.
Before Andreas became an assistant professor at the Department of Nutrition, Exercise and Sports, he was a postdoc in the lab of David James at University of Sydney, Australia thanks to grants from the Danish Diabetes Academy and the Benzon Foundation.
On the basis of a Novo Nordisk Foundation Excellence Emerging Investigator grant in endocrinology and metabolism for his project "Elucidating the molecular mechanisms orchestrating the health beneficial effects of medium-chain fatty acids", Andreas is in the process of establishing his own emerging research group.
At the Department of Nutrition, Exercise and Sports, Andreas has been teaching BSc and MSc courses within human physiology, exercise physiology, metabolism, and nutrition, in addition to developing his research program. In the future, he will contribute to BMI’s teaching within human physiology and pathophysiology.
About his appointment as associate professor at the Department, Andreas says: "It is with such a huge honour and gratitude that I now join the Department of Biomedical Sciences. I am thrilled about being a part of such an interdisciplinary, translational, and exciting department. The move will certainly widen the scope of my independent research program, and I hope that my research interests, molecular physiology background, and my experiences as a science teacher will contribute positively to the department’s research and research-based educations. I am particularly excited about the prospect of forming new collaborations with other groups within this unique environment at the department. This will support my aim of bridging our basic scientific discoveries from the laboratory and translate them to the clinic and/or industry.”