Research

Researchers & Units

CPDSE brings together research units from the University of Copenhagen and the University of Southern Denmark, each contributing unique expertise to pharmaceutical data science.

Cooperating Departments

Funded PhD Students

CPDSE co-funds and co-supervises PhD projects at the intersection of pharmaceutical sciences and data science.

Supervisor Anton Pottegård

AI to strengthen transparency and reproducibility in real-world evidence (RWE) generation

Supervisor Lotte Stig Nørgaard

LLM-assisted patient–pharmacist conversation to improve communication education

Supervisor Wouter Boomsma

A Neurosymbolic Framework for Literature-Driven GPCR Interaction Modeling

Supervisor Icaro Ariel Simon

From mechanism to prediction: forecasting ligand-specific outcomes across GPCR variants with MD-derived biophysical descriptors

Supervisor Judith Kuntsche

Modeling release and redistribution of hydrophobic drugs from lipid nanocarriers

Supervisor Philipp Hans

A Provenance-Aware, Data-Driven Framework for Pharmaceutical Amorphous Solids

Group Leaders

CPDSE's group leaders anchor the research agenda — spanning computational pharmacology, solid-state science, pharmacovigilance, and science education.

Albert Kooistra

Albert Kooistra

Data Science for Drug Design

UCPH

Specializes in Data Science for Drug Design. His work bridges structural bioinformatics and cheminformatics, focusing on AI/ML applications for kinases and the development of open-science tools like the KLIFS database.

Alexander Hausser

Alexander Hausser

Drug-related Data Science

UCPH

Focuses on drug-related data science and pharmacogenomics. He integrates large-scale biomedical data — from genomics to clinical biobanks — to understand how genetic variability influences drug responses and personalized medicine.

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Anders Østergård Madsen

Anders Østergård Madsen

Crystallography & Structural Chemistry

UCPH

A leader in crystallography and structural chemistry. He applies deep learning and advanced algorithms to solve the phase problem in X-ray and electron diffraction, focusing on polymorphism and crystal stability in pharmaceuticals.

Anton Pottegård

Anton Pottegård

Clinical Pharmacology & Pharmacy

SDU

Works in pharmacoepidemiology at the Dept. of Public Health. He specializes in analyzing registry data on drug use patterns and effects, investigating both known and unknown effects of pharmaceutical treatments with a focus on rational drug use and deprescribing.

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David Gloriam

Computational Receptor Biology

UCPH

A powerhouse in Computational Receptor Biology and GPCR research. He leads the development of world-renowned databases like GPCRdb and applies big data science to uncover new drug targets and receptor signaling mechanisms.

Gloriam Group ↗
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Hendra Augustian

Science Education

UCPH

A specialist from the Dept. of Science Education. He researches the didactics of the laboratory, focusing on how students engage with scientific inquiry and the epistemic emotions — like curiosity and doubt — that drive learning in STEM environments.

Jacob Kongsted

Jacob Kongsted

Physics, Chemistry and Pharmacy

SDU

Works in Theoretical and Computational Chemistry. His research focuses on computational methods for studying molecular properties, particularly photon absorption phenomena and excited electronic states using density functional theory approaches.

Jane Knöchel

Jane Knöchel

Pharmaceutical Informatics

UCPH

Works in Pharmaceutical Informatics. She utilizes mathematical modeling and Quantitative Systems Pharmacology (QSP) to bridge biological mechanisms with clinical outcomes, particularly for metabolic and cardiovascular diseases.

Knöchel Group ↗
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Judith Kuntsche

Physics, Chemistry and Pharmacy

SDU

Specializes in the development and characterization of lipid-based nanoparticulate drug delivery systems. Her work focuses on supercooled smectic nanoparticles and liposomal formulations, exploring how colloidal systems interact with biological membranes and their applications in pharmaceutical delivery.

Karlis Berzins

Karlis Berzins

Pharmaceutical Solid Materials Science

UCPH

Specialist in the materials science of pharmaceutical solids. He uses advanced low-frequency Raman spectroscopy combined with multivariate chemometrics and machine learning to probe the mechanical and structural properties of complex drug delivery systems.

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Morten Andersen

Pharmacovigilance

UCPH

Head of the Pharmacovigilance Research Center, working in Pharmacovigilance. His research utilizes big healthcare data and real-world evidence from national registers to monitor drug safety and adopt AI/ML for signal detection in large populations.

Pharmacovigilance Research Center ↗
Trine Meldgård Lund

Trine Meldgård Lund

Pharmacometrics

UCPH

Leader of the Pharmacometrics Group. She focuses on population PK/PD modeling and simulations to optimize dosing regimens, utilizing mathematical tools to understand variability in drug response across various therapeutic areas.

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