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Jacob Judas Kain Kirkensgaard is an Associate Professor at the University of Copenhagen's Faculty of Science, holding a joint appointment between the Department of Food Science and the Niels Bohr Institute. He leads the Structural Food Physics and Soft Matter Self-Assembly group at the Nano-Science Center and directs the Cross-disciplinary X-ray Center (CXC), managing SAXS infrastructure for the faculty. He also serves as the UCPH branch manager for LINX (industry-academia neutron/x-ray initiative) and collaborates closely with LINXS in Sweden.
Research Interests: Kirkensgaard specializes in small-angle x-ray and neutron scattering techniques combined with computational modeling to study mesoscale self-assembly in soft matter systems. His work spans biological membranes, food colloids, pharmaceutical systems, and energy materials, with a focus on geometric and topological complexity. Notable contributions include hyperbolic surface pattern analysis via Poincaré disc mapping and Shape2SAS software development for scattering simulations.
- Teaching: Co-lecturer for Food Physics and Neutron Scattering courses; developed flipped classroom methods for Linear Algebra and Classical Mechanics (recipient of 2016 Jens Martin Teaching Award).
- Collaborations: Stephen Hyde (University of Sydney), Gerd Schröder-Turk (Murdoch University), Vanessa Robins (ANU), Matthias Arenz (UCPH).
- Infrastructure: Instrument acquisition through FOODHAY grant (2020) and Xenocs SAXS instrument implementation (2021).
