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CURRICULUM VITAE
Name: Arne Redsted Rasmussen Born: 28 April 1959, married, 2 children, citizen of Denmark
Education and employment:
· High school, Sankt Jørgens Gymnasium 1979
· Cand. Scient in biology at University of Copenhagen 1988
· Grant from The Danish Research Academy to prepare Ph.D. study 1989
· Course in epidemiology at Panum Institute, Copenhagen 1991
· Ph.D. in Zoology at Zoological Museum, University of Copenhagen 1992
· Postdoctoral grant from The Danish Research Council in The Australian Museum,
Sydney 1993
· FAO-contract, producing a chapter to Western Central Pacific identification guide for
fishery purposes 1994
· Teaching at University of Copenhagen in “Form og Funktion” and Zoological
Morphology 1995
· Postdoctoral grant from Danida (RUF) 1996-1998 (2 years)
· Postdoctoral grant from Carlsbergfoundation 1998-2000 (2 years)
· Employed by The Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts School of Conservation 2000-
Expeditions:
· Scandinavian course in marine biology in North Sea (ship: Håkon Mosby, Bergen)
1984
· Research and collection trips to Phuket Marine Biological Center, Thailand 1985,
1987, 1989, 1990, 1993, 1997, 1998, 2000, 2001
· Research and collection trips to Koh Si Chang Marine Biological Station (Gulf of
Thailand) 1989 and Song Khlar (Gulf of Thailand) 1990
· Research and collection trip along the Gulf of Thailand and on the west coast of
peninsular Thailand from Ranong to Satun 1990
· Research and collection trip to Bahrain (Persian Gulf) 1990
· Research and collection trip to Bangladesh (Bay of Bengal) 1990
· Research and collection trip to Great Barrier Reef, Queensland 1993
· Research trip to Sri Lanka 1995
· Research trip to India 1996
· Research and collection trip to Manado and Ujung Pandang (Sulawesi) 1996 and
1997
· Research and collection trip to Viet Nam, Cambodia and Thailand 2000 and 2001
· Research and collection trip to Vietnam 2004
· Research and collection trip to Borneo 2005
Congress and Museum visits:
· Naturhistorisches Museum Basel, Schweiz, research on type specimens on the '
genus Hydrophis 1986
· The Natural History Museum, London, research on type specimens 1986, 1991, 1995
and 1996
· 1st World Congress of Herpetology in Canterbury, England 1989
· Congress of herpetology in Budapest 1991
· Symposium on anti-parasite drugs August Krogh Institute, 1992
· Australian Museum, Sydney (post-doc), research on elapids 1993
· 2nd World Congress of Herpetology in Adelaide, Australia 1993-1994
· The Natural History Museum in Colombo, Sri Lanka February 1995
· The Zoological Institute in Sankt Petersborg, Russia May 1995
· The Zoological Reference Collection (Raffels Museum) in Singapore May 1996
· 3th world Congress of Herpetology in Prague 1997
· Conference on Coastal Areas in developing countries, Aarhus 1997
· Conference on Biodiversity and Development, Eigtveds Pakhus, Copenhagen 1998
· The Natural History Museum, London, supported by European Union’s Training
and Mobility of Researchers programme January-February (3 weeks) 1999
· Muséum National d´Histoire Naturelle, Paris, supported by European Union´s Training
and Morbility of Researchers programme February (2 Weeks) 2000
· Meeting of Societas Europaea Herpetologica (SHE), Zalec, Slovenia July 2001
· The Natural Museum of Thailand, Bangkok 2001
· Humbolt-Universität zu Berlin Museum Für Naturkunde (1 week) 2002
· Leiden Natural History Museum, University of Leiden 2003
· The Natural History Museum, London 2004
· The Thulalongkorn University, Bangkok 2004
· The Reed Cross Snake farm in Bangkok, 2004
. Meeting of Societas Europaea Herpetologica (SHE) Bonn, Germany 2005
Invited speaker to:
· Herpetological Society of Sydney, Australia; May 1993
· Herpetological Society of Umeaa, Sweden; May 1994
· Symposium: Venomous Snakes: Ecology, evolution and snakebite, at the Zoological
Society of London, London Zoo; 27 & 28 April 1995
· Symposium: “Herpetologi”, at the “Hemvärnsgården och Ekologihuset”, Lund
Sweden; September 1995, 1997
· Biodiversity in Asia: Challenges and opportunities for the scientific community,
Thailand 1996
. Invited Concept Paper to conference on Biodiversity and Development, Eigtveds
Pakhus, Copenhagen 1998
· Danmarks Naturfrednings Forening Borup, Hillerød and Viby Sjælland 1997-1999
· Risø, Denmark 1999
· The Natural History Museum, London, 1999
· Introduction to biology for coming students at Copenhagen University, 1999, 2000
· Secondary adaptation to life in water, Geological Museum, University of
Copenhagen, 1999
· Bellacenter-Danish Medical week , Snake bite 2001
· The Danida sea snake project , P.M.B.C. Thailand , 2001
· Roskilde University Center 2002
· Tropical Medicin 2001, 2002, 2003, and 2004
· Lund University Herpetological meeting 2005
Research involvements:
· DANIDA (RUF) - project, producing a monograph on sea snakes in cooperation with
scientists from Cambodia, India, Indonesia, Philippines, Thailand and England
· Cooperation with Dr. Colin McCarthy (UK) on the Hydrophis nigrocinctus-complex
· Cooperation with Dr. M.D. Jesper Norup Nielsen (DK) on snake bites
· Cooperation with Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Böhme and Mark A. Auliya on a new
freshwater sea snake species
· Cooperation with Dr. Ivan Ineich on problematic sea snake species from New
Caledonia
· Serum production using Enhydrina schistose with scientists from Asia 2001-
· Using DNA from old collection with Peter Gravlund
· Decalcification in Natural History collections with K.M. Grekersen and J Bredal-
Jørgensen
Other involvement:
· External supervisor for Endang Triwahyuni (Master stud.) Hasanuddin University,
Indonesia
· External supervisor for Somchai Bussarawit (Ph.D. stud.) Phuket Marine Biological
Centre, Thailand
· Invited to nominate candidates for the 1997-2000 Kyoto Prizes (Fifty million yen)
· Chairman of “the Sea Snake Working Group” a cross-disciplinary group working with
sea snakes
· Arranged in co-operation with Mogens Andersen a sea snake exhibition at the
Zoological
Museum, University of Copenhagen
· Writing for “Den store Danske Encyklopædi”
· Censor for Ph.D Michal Guinea at Darwin University Australia
Teaching experience:
· Teaching at Sankt Jørgens High School in connection with excursions in Biology
(1981-1988)
· Teaching in Form & Function and Zoological Morphology at The University
of Copenhagen (1988-1997)
· Lectures on biodiversity and phylogeny at Song Khlar University and Phuket Marine
Biological Centre, Thailand
· Lectures on sea snake, a cross-disciplinary approach at Hassanudin University,
Ujung Pandang and Sam Ratulangi University, Manado, Sulawesi
· Lecture on bites for Danish medical doctors 2000-2006
· Lecture on herpetology at Odense University April 2000,2001
· Invited teacher in cladistic methods at Phuket Marine Biological Centre, Thailand, year
2000 (financed by DANIDA)
· Teacher at The Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts School of Conservation
from 1999-
Initiator and chairman of following three meetings:
· Biodiversity: Artsbegrebet i teori og praksis. [The species concept in theory and
practice] Symposium at the Zoological Museum, University of Copenhagen 22-23
November 1991 (220 participants)
· Biology of aquatic elapids. Workshop with participants from Cambodia, Denmark,
India, Indonesia, Philippines and Thailand January 1998
· Serum production in sea snakes. Workshop in Vietnam (Ngh Trang) with participants
from Asia, 2004
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