Team:UNIK Copenhagen/Team
Meet the team
Our team consists of 9 students from University of Copenhagen and CBS (Copenhagen Business School). This year the team is very cross-disciplinary and very multicultural. Scroll down the page and read about the individual team members, their background and what they have been working with at SpaceMoss. Please do also pay special notice to our supervisors, professors, contributors and sponsors whit out whom project SpaceMoss would never have happened.
Team Members
MOLECULAR BIOLOGY
ADAM PETERSEN
__________________
Studies a bachelor degree at Center for Synthetic Biology and specializing in protein purification. At SpaceMoss Adam primarely work with the DNA, which is inserted into the moss
BIO TECHNOLOGY
JONATHAN ARNESEN
__________________
Studies a bachelor degree at Center for Syntethic Biology with focus on plant biology. Jonathan is behind large parts og the work conducted in the manipulation of moss in SpaceMoss’ Green Lab.
ASTRO PHYSICS
JOPHIEL WIIS
__________________
Jophiel studies a masters degree in astrophysics with a focus on cosmology. At SpaceMoss, his focus is on Red Lab, working on experiments which simulate the conditions on Mars. He also works with outreach and film editing.
MOLECULAR BIOMEDICINE
JONAS ELSBORG
__________________
Studies a bachelor in Molecular Biomedicine. Jonas has experience with mammalian cells and NMR-spectroscopy. In SpaceMoss he primarily works in the GreenLab: doing transformations of moss and purification of plasmids in E. coli, for use in the transformation procedures.
PLANETARY PHYSICS
CHRISTINA TOLDBO
__________________
Studies a master degree in Astrophysics with focus on space travel and human exploration of the solar system. She is primarily working with outreach and web development, as well as designing experiments to test if the moss has obtained the wished ability.
GRAPHIC DESIGN
BÁRÐUR FRÍI MIKLADAL
__________________
Bárður is from the faroe islands. He studies and works with graphic design. Bárður is SpaceMoss' photographer and designer and he is working on a new logo for SpaceMoss as well as optimizing our poster for our presentation at MIT in Boston.
ORGANIZATIONAL INNOVATION
DOMENIC MANGANELLI
__________________
Dom has a bachelor degree in economy, is from Boston, USA and studies social science at Copenhagen Business School. In SpaceMoss he works with webdesign as well as building the experiments that test our moss in Red Lab.
BIO BUSINESS
AKHIL SASIDHARAN PILLAI
__________________
Akhil is from India and holds a master degree in Industrial Biotechnology as well as one in Business Administration. At SpaceMoss Akhil has primarely worked with branding and funding as well at helping with the moss transformations in Green Lab.
BIO PHYSICS
VICTORIA SOSNOVTSEVA
__________________
Victoria is born in Russia and studies a bachelor degree which combines biophysics and astrophysics. Victoria has participated both in the moss transformations and the subsequent experiments testing the results in Red Lab.
Supervisors
Cecilie Cetti Hansen
Josephine Schrøder
Anna Holzwarth
Nanna Heinz
Will Wright
Brian King
Kamil Bąkowski
Associated Professors
Björn Hamberger
Morten Bo Madsen is working in the UCPH Mars-group and is a participating scientist on NASA’s Curiosity rover-mission. He served as a scientific advisor on SpaceMoss, lending his expertise on everything related to Mars and the Martian environment. Through Morten, the Mars-group supplied us with our Mars-soil substitute, and gave us access to the Jens-Martin Mars-chamber.
Morten Bo Madsen
Henrik Toft Simonsen
Contributers
Asmus Koefoed
Christine Fabricius
Hansol Bae
Johanne is the artist behind the SpaceMoss comic. SpaceMoss’ collaboration with Johanne has been invaluable in our outreach efforts. Johanne’s visual storytelling expertise and questioning nature forced us to think hard about how to make the project palatable to lay-people.
Johanne Holm
Helping iGEMS teams
DTU Biobuilders
Sponsors
