PhD student in Applied Mathematics and Computer Science at DTU
I’m a PhD candidate in Applied Mathematics and Computer Science at the Technical University of Denmark, specifically within the Cognitive Systems section. My research is part of the Bayesian neural networks for molecular discovery project.
I started my PhD, titled “Uncertainty Quantification for Graph Neural Networks”, in September 2023, and I’m supervised by Mikkel N. Schmidt (main supervisor) and Michael Riis Andersen (co-supervisor).
From October 2025 to March 2026, I am a visiting researcher at the National Institute of Informatics (NII) in Tokyo, hosted by Prof. Mahito Sugiyama.
My research focuses on uncertainty quantification for graph neural networks (GNNs) applied to molecular discovery. I aim to develop reliable machine learning models that can accelerate the development of new medicines. I am broadly interested in:
Semi-Supervised Learning for Molecular Graphs via Ensemble Consensus
Rasmus H. Tirsgaard, Laurits Fredsgaard, Marisa Wodrich, Mikkel Jordahn, Mikkel N. Schmidt.
NeurIPS 2025 Workshop: AI for Accelerated Materials Design (AI4Mat) (Accepted).
On Joint Regularization and Calibration in Deep Ensembles
Laurits Fredsgaard, Mikkel N. Schmidt
Transactions on Machine Learning Research (TMLR), 2025. (Accepted).
Capsid-like particles decorated with the SARS-CoV-2 receptor-binding domain elicit strong virus neutralization activity
C. Fougeroux, …, Laurits Fredsgaard et al.
Nature Communications, 2021.
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Head-to-head comparison of modular vaccines developed using different capsid virus-like particle backbones and antigen conjugation systems
Laurits Fredsgaard et al.
MDPI Vaccines, 2021.
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I have a dual background in life science and computer science, holding degrees in both Molecular Biomedicine and Machine Learning & Data Science from the University of Copenhagen.
My experimental research focused on virology and vaccine design. I studied the Hepatitis C Virus at Osaka University’s RIMD under Yoshiharu Matsuura (2017) and for my bachelor’s project at Hvidovre Hospital with Jens Bukh (2018). Subsequently, my master’s thesis (2018-2020) in Adam Sander’s lab centered on cVLP-based vaccines, where I supported the preclinical development of the ABNCoV2 COVID-19 vaccine, which has since proven highly successful in clinical trials.
My transition towards computational work includes my role as a student bioinformatician at LEO Pharma, where I built data analysis pipelines for omics data. For my final project in Machine Learning (2022-2023), I had the opportunity to work with Wouter Boomsma on deep learning models for protein sequences and structures.