Jens-Erik Mai

Short presentation

Jens-Erik Mai is Professor of Information and Head of Department of Communication at the University of Copenhagen.

His research concerns basic questions about the nature of information phenomena in contemporary society — he is concerned with the state of privacy and surveillance given new digital media, with classification given the pluralistic nature of meaning and society, and with information and its quality given its pragmatic nature.  He is currently engaged in the collaborative, inter-disciplinary research project: “Don’t Take it Personal” – Privacy and information in an algorithmic age.

He was the general Conference Chair for iConference 2012 held in Toronto, general Conference Chair for the 77th ASIS&T Annual Meeting held in Seattle, and is one of the co-organisers of the 2018 Information Ethics Roundtable meeting in Copenhagen.

Previously Jens-Erik was associate professor at the Faculty of Information, University of Toronto, where he also served as Vice Dean and Acting Dean. Prior to that he was a faculty member at the Information School of the University of Washington where he also co-directed the Center for Human-Information Interaction.

He earned his Ph.D. in Library and Information Science from the The School of Information at the University of Texas at Austin as a Fulbright Scholar and his Master and Bachelor degrees from the Royal School of Library and Information Science, Denmark.

For more information about Jens-Erik, incl. his bio, CV, list of publications, etc. please visit his personal website at: http://jenserikmai.info

CV

Academic appointments

University of Copenhagen, Denmark
   Professor, 2012 –
   Head of Department, Department of Communication, 2019 –
   Head of Department, Department of Information Studies, 2017–2019

Faculty of Information, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada
   Associate Professor [tenured], 2006-2012
   Vice Dean, 2006-2009
   Acting Dean, Fall 2008

Information School, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA
   Assistant Professor, 2000-2006
      [tenured and promoted to Associate Professor per July 1, 2006]
   Co-Director, Center for Human-Information Interaction, 2003-2006

Royal School of Library and Information Science, Copenhagen, Denmark
   Lecturer, 1996-2000

Education

Ph.D., Library and Information Science, 2000
   School of Information, University of Texas at Austin, USA

Master of Library and Information Science, 1994
   Royal School of Library and Information Science, Denmark

Librarian, RSL. (Bachelor degree in LIS), 1992
   Royal School of Library and Information Science, Denmark