Background Information

Position:Professor, Department of Computer Science, University of Copenhagen, Denmark. Head of PLTC Section. Head of BSc education on Computer Science and Economics.
Email:mael at di.ku.dk
Home page:http://elsman.com
Address:Universitetsparken 5, DK-2100 Copenhagen O, Denmark
Mobile phone:+45 2612 2212
Date of Birth:1969-12-22


Previous positions:

May 2012 - December 2020Associate Professor, Department of Computer Science, University of Copenhagen, Denmark. HIPERFIT Research Center Manager, HEAD of BSc education on Computer Science and Economics (from 2019).
May 2008 - April 2012Chief System Development Consultant, Team Leader, SimCorp.
April 2003 - April 2008Associate Professor at The IT University of Copenhagen (ITU). From March 2004 to August 2005, Vice Head of the Department of Innovation, ITU. From August 2005 to January 2006, Head of the Department of Innovation, ITU. From August 2007 - April 2008, Head of the SDT study programme.
February 2006 - August 2006On leave from ITU: CTO at Zecure.
January 2000 - March 2003Assistant Professor at The Royal Veterinary and Agricultural University of Denmark (part time at ITU).
January 1999 - December 1999Postdoctoral research position at University of California, Berkeley.
May 1995 - December 1998Ph.D. student at the Department of Computer Science, University of Copenhagen (DIKU).

Research and Development

I am Professor in the Programming Languages and Theory of Computation section at the Department of Computer Science, University of Copenhagen, where I serve as head of the PLTC Section and head of studies for the BSc education on Computer Science and Economics. Until 2018, I served as Center Manager for the HIPERFIT Research Center, which, with special attention to the finance industry, focused on solving problems within the domains of high-performance computing and big data.

Full CV

For a full CV including a publication list and detailed information about organisational work, teaching, and PhD supervision, please consult http://elsman.com/cv.