Curriculum vitae

Current activities

• Since September 2009 I work in my own company, which does contract based research in analycial models of investments and the financial system; delivers software innovations; and gives courses on topics in complex systems.
• I teach on two courses in physics of complex systems at the Niels Bohr Institute.
• I work on the project Asian Social Web with the Scandinavian Tourist Board and Copenhagen Business School. We are creating a text-mining tool to find blog entries which can be used to make Asian tourists interested in travelling to the Nordic countries.
• I coordinate the creation of Danish and Faroese Open Source spell checking dictionaries, write about Open Source and Open Standards, and is on the system administrator team of the Linux user group for Skåne and Sjælland (SSLUG).
• I work on the project Collaborative Personalised TV Programming, which aims to develop software and algorithms for a new kind of set-top box.

Education

• Started my studies at University of Copenhagen, 1990.
• B.Sc. in mathematics and physics, 1993.
• M.Sc. in physics with a thesis titled "Measurements of Relative Diffusion in turbulence", 1997. Thesis supervisor: Mogens T. Levinsen.
• Ph.D. in physics with a thesis titled "Experimental study of turbulent diffusion using particle tracking" at the Niels Bohr Institute and Risø National Laboratory, 2002. Thesis supervisor: Mogens Høgh Jensen.
• HD 1. del (business economics) at Copenhagen Business School, 2001-2002.

Work and volunteer activities

• Cornell University, Medical College, New York, 1991 (programming).
• Software for quality control of laboratory measurements, Danish Institute for Occupational Health (1992-1994).
• Poseidon cruise 194, Faroe-Iceland-Ridge, 1992 (oceanography and integration of data acquisition and navigation information systems).
• Geologish-Paläontologish Institut, Kiel, 1992-1993 (programming).
• Flying Circus of Physics, Copenhagen, Sevilla, and Amsterdam, 1992-1994 (physics in the street shows).
• Created a programming language (only on paper) for the young researchers competition, JP-Forsker '93 (1993). Fourth prize and participation in the conference Science and the Media at CERN.
• Joint European Torus, Abingdon, 1993 (building on a x-ray spectrometer).
• Sorø-dage, Sorø akademi, 1994 (physics summer school for high-school students).
• University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, 1994-1995 (experiments on 2D turbulence).
• ENAM cruise with R/V Pelagia, 1995 (oceanography).
• An application of simulated annealing: Optimisation of programs for parallel computers, 1996-1997.
• ENAM cruise with H/S Dana, 1997 (oceanography).
• System administrator and webmaster in Skåne Sjælland Linux User Group.
• System administrator and technical webmaster for the LEGO CAD user group, LDraw.org, 1998-2003.
• Meeting coordinator for Skåne Sjælland Linux User Group, 1999-2006.
• Member of the Danish Open Source localisation group, 2000-2004.
• Board member in Skåne Sjælland Linux User Group, 2000, 2001 (treasurer), 2002 (substitute), 2003, 2005-2006.
• Coordinator for "Den Store Danske Ordliste" and "Føroyska orðalistin til rættlestur" (Danish and Faroese spell checking dictionaries), 2000-.
• Co-editor of the book series Linux - Friheden til ..., 2000-2006.
• Co-founder of Linux-áhugafelagið - the Faroese Linux user group, 2000.
• Linux Counter Country Manager for the Faroe Islands, 2001-.
• Member of the Standards Committee of the Danish Unix User Group, 2001-2006.
• Bioinformatics Researcher at CRS4, 2003-2006.
• Lecturer in Software engineering at CEUS, 2006-2008.
• Head of system administration at the software engineering department of CEUS, 2006-2008.
• Analyst in the Nykredit Asset Management Analytic Support Unit, 2008-2009.

Awards and scholarships

• Fourth prize in the young researchers competition, JP-Forsker '93, and participation in the conference Science and the Media at CERN, for the design of a new programming language (1993).
• The Lørup scholarship for students at the Niels Bohr Institute (1994).
• Ph.D. scholarship from Forskerakademiet (1998).
• First prize in the Nokia Open 2010 competition for a location-aware calendar design (2010).

Grants

• Grant for the project Udvikling af professionsbachelor i digital interaktiv underholdning og entrepenørskab (developing a new undergraduate education in information technology) from Vækstforum Sjælland (2007, DKK 973'000). With Jens Lautrup Nørgaard and Erik Kristiansen.
• Grant for the project Asian Social Web from Nordisk InnovationsCenter (2009, NOK 1'814'000). With Søren Leerskov and Ana Marìa Munar.

Lectures, conferences, etc.

• TAO conference on Transport and Turbulence, Bornö (SE), 1998.
• EU network workshop on Intermittency in Turbulence, Paris (FR), 1998 (lecture: Measurements of structure functions and relative dispersion in turbulence).
• Lectures on configuring the web server Apache at meetings in Skåne Sjælland Linux User Group.
• Lectures on Unix shell programming at meetings in Skåne Sjælland Linux User Group.
• Danish Physical Society annual meeting, Nyborg (DK), 1999 (lecture: 3D particle tracking - measurements on turbulence).
• Symposium on Intermittency, Cambridge (UK), 1999.
• uptime(1) - celebrating one billion seconds of Unix, 2001 (lecture: Linux clusters).
• LinuxLab and SSLUG conference on Linux use in Danish public schools, Linux i Folkeskolen, 2001 (author of the conference report).
• LinuxDay/Cagliari, 2004 (lecture: Building graphical user interfaces with GLADE and Gtk+/GtkAda, with live demonstration).
• Lectures on various Open Source applications and servers at Corso di Laurea in Informatica, Università degli Studi di Cagliari (Department of computer science, University of Cagliari), 2005-2006.
• LinuxDay/Cagliari, 2005 (lecture: Practical Office Automation, with live demonstration).
• AXMEDIS 2006, 2nd International Conference on Automated Cross Media Content for Multi-channel Distribution (lecture: Collaborative personalised TV programming).
• Linuxforum 2007, Copenhagen. Presentation: An IT Education based on Linux and Open Source.
• Game Developers Conference 2007, San Francisco. Presentation of Gainers 'n' Drainers at the finals in Mobile Game Innovation Hunt.
• Videnskabens Verden, 2008: Fysik i finansverdenen. Radio programme on the use of physics in the world of finance (in Danish).
• Dataanalyse i finanssektoren, 2009. Presentation: Physics and finance - in the eyes of a physicist (in Danish).

Publications

Peer-reviwed

• Preben Alstrøm, Jacob Sparre Andersen, Walter I. Goldburg, and Mogens T. Levinsen. Relative diffusion in a chaotic system: Capillary waves in the Faraday experiment. Chaos, Solitons & Fractals, 5;8:1455-1464, 1995.
• Elsebeth Schröder, Jacob Sparre Andersen, Mogens T. Levinsen, Preben Alstrøm, and Walter I. Goldburg. Relative particle motion in capillary waves. Physical Review Letters, 76;25:4717-4720, 1996.
• Adam E. Hansen, Elsebeth Schröder, Preben Alstrøm, Jacob Sparre Andersen, and Mogens T. Levinsen. Fractal particle trajectories in capillary waves: Imprint of wavelength. Physical Review Letters, 79;10:1845-1848, 1997.
• Frédéric Moisy, Hervé Willaime, Jacob Sparre Andersen and Patrick Tabeling. Passive scalar intermittency in low temperature helium flows. Physical Review Letters, 86;21:4827-4830, 2001.
• Jacob Sparre Andersen. Collaborative personalised TV programming. In Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Automated Production of Cross Media Content for Multi-Channel Distribution, pages 201­205. IEEE Computer Society, December 2006.

Other

• Jacob Sparre Andersen og Henrik Østergård-Nielsen. Implementation af et RSA-krypteringssystem, 1993 (B.Sc.-projekt).
• Morten Stoklund Johansen, Jacob Sparre Andersen, og Ole Klembt Andersen. Kaos i kapillarbølger, 1993 (B.Sc.-projekt).
• Jacob Sparre Andersen. Definition af et programmeringssprog, JP-Forsker, 1993.
• Jacob Sparre Andersen. Measurements of Relative Diffusion in turbulence. Master's thesis, Niels Bohr Institute, Centre for Chaos and Turbulence Studies, University of Copenhagen, 1997.
• Jakob Mann, Søren Ott, and Jacob Sparre Andersen: Experimental Study of Relative, Turbulent Diffusion. Risø National Laboratory, August 1999, ISBN 87-550-2603-6, 75 p.
• Frédéric Moisy, Hervé Willaime, Jacob Sparre Andersen and Patrick Tabeling, Advances in Turbulence VIII edited by C. Dopazo (CIMNE, Barcelona, 2000), 835.
• Jacob Sparre Andersen, Peter Toft, Hans Schou (editors). Linux - Friheden til at programmere. Skåne Sjælland Linux User Group, 1998-2006.
• Jacob Sparre Andersen and Mads Iversen. The performance of leveraged equity investment. Analysis. Nykredit Asset Management, March 2009.

Miscellaneous

Cultural experiences:

Lived 6 years in the Faroe Islands (until I finished high-school)

Worked 5 months in USA (part of my studies)

Worked 7 months in France (part of my Ph.D. project)

Worked 3 years in Italy

Worked in Germany, England and USA for shorter periods.

Languages:

Danish, English, Faroese (fluent)

Italian (limited)

German, French (very limited)

Norwegian (nynorsk and bokmål), Swedish, Icelandic (only reading)

Programming:

Ada, Bourne Shell (professional)

COMAL, BASIC, C, Pascal (experienced)

Fortran, Perl, C++, Java (limited experience)

Operating systems:

System administration:

Linux

Use:

Unix (AIX, HP-UX, OSF/1, Solaris, FreeBSD), Linux, OS/2, DOS.

København, Marts 2010.