Amyloid Fibrils and Prefibrillar Aggregates – Molecular and Biological Properties

Daniel Erik Otzen is Professor at the Interdisciplinary Nanoscience Centre of the Department of Molecular Biology at Aarhus University, Denmark. A graduate of Aarhus University, he obtained a Ph.D. in protein biophysics from the universities of Aarhus and Cambridge (UK). In 1995, he began work as a research chemist at Novo Nordisk, followed by post-doctoral work at Lund University (Sweden). In 2000, he joined the faculty of Aalborg University before taking up his current appointment at Aarhus in 2007. Professor Otzen has received several awards, including the Prize of the Alzheimer Research Foundation, the Carlsberg Biotechnology Prize and the Silver Medal of the Royal Danish Society. He has published more than 120 research articles and serves as an editor for the journals Biochimica Biophysica Acta and Biophysical Chemistry.