Claus Nielsen

Claus Nielsen
PhD Student
Department of Physics, Chemistry and Pharmacy
University of Southern Denmark
Campusvej 55, 5230 Odense M
Denmark

 

Room: V12-605b-2
Tel: +45-6550-2505
E-mail: clausnielsen@sdu.dk

 

 

Short CV

Education:
2015-2019: Ph.d. in Quantum Biology and Computational Biophysics at SDU.
2014-2017: Master in Physics at SDU.
2010-2014: Bachelor in Physics, Chemistry and Math at SDU.
 
Awards:
2013: Awarded an Oticon Scholarship.

Research Interests: Magnetoreception, spin-dynamics, atomic and molecular structure, interactions between light and matter.

Teaching

Teaching assistant in the following courses:

 

Current Research and Development Projects

Cryptochrome structure prediction
Most of the available crystal structures for cryptochrome proteins are incomplete, so I am trying to construct the missing part of Arabidopsis t. cryptochrome 1 by computational approaches.

Realistic spin chemical model for magnetoreception
So far the models used to investigate the radical pair-based mechanism utilized by migratory birds to sense the geomagnetic field have been somewhat artificial. I want to create as realistic a model as possible, and use it to evaluate the capabilities of the photoreceptor protein Cryptochrome to act as a compas sensor molecule. Read more on the Research Area page.

Spin Dynamics Software development
I am currently developing a spin dynamics software package, that I will use to create and test my spin chemical models for magnetoreception.

VIKING Development
I am also participating in development of VIKING, currently as designer of the user interface. Read more about VIKING here.

Publications

Modeling spin relaxation in complex radical systems using MolSpin, Luca Gerhards, Claus Nielsen, Daniel R. Kattnig, P. J. Hore, Ilia A. Solov'yov, Journal of Computational Chemistry, 44, 1704-1714, (2023)
Introducing VIKING: A Novel Online Platform for Multiscale Modeling, Vasili Korol, Peter Husen, Emil Sjulstok, Claus Nielsen, Ida Friis, Anders Frederiksen, Adrian Bøgh Salo, Ilia A. Solov'yov, ACS Omega, 5, 1254-1260, (2020)
Molecular Oxygen Binding in the Mitochondrial Electron Transfer Flavoprotein, Peter Husen, Claus Nielsen, Carlos F. Martino, Ilia A. Solov'yov, Journal of Chemical Information and Modeling, 59, 4868-4879, (2019)
MolSpin — Flexible and extensible general spin dynamics software, Claus Nielsen, Ilia A. Solov'yov, Journal of Physical Chemistry, 151, 194105-(1-13), (2019)
Towards predicting intracellular radiofrequency radiation effects, Claus Nielsen, Ron Hui, Wing-Yee Lui, Ilia A. Solov'yov, PLoS ONE, 14, e0213286, (2019)