CV

Place of work
Department of Geosciences and Natural Resource Management
University of Copenhagen
Øster Voldgade 10
DK 1350 København K
Phone: +45 35322503 (direct), 3532 2500 (switch board), +45 26393503 (mobile)
E-mail: [email protected]

CV as of Jan 2017

Present position

Professor, Department of Geosciences and Natural Resource Management (IGN), Center for Permafrost (CENPERM), University of Copenhagen (KU).

Academic background

Phd, Institute of Geography, KU, 2001

Msc in Physical Geography, Institute of Geography, KU, 1998

Positions

2015-present   Professor at IGN KU.

2008-2015      Associate professor at IGN, KU.

2007-2008       Associate research professor at Department of Geography and Geology (IGG), KU.

2004-2007       Associate research professor at IGG, (Steno scholarship funded by the Danish Natural Science Research Council).

2002-2003         Guest Scientist at GKSS, Hamburg, Germany.

2002-2004       Post doc at IGG. Post-doc grant from the Carlsberg Foundation.

2001-2002       Ammanuensis at IGG, University of Copenhagen.

Other Qualifications

2013-present   Head of Study board for Geosciences and Management

2003-present Manager of the Pb-210 and Cs-137 dating facility “Gamma Dating Centre Copenhagen” at IGN.  This position involves scientific cooperation with partners and clients from numerous universities.  

2008-2013       Head of Studies of Geography and Geoinformatics, University of Copenhagen

Member of  three Ph.d. assessment committees.

Reviewer for Netherlands Space Office Council.

Member of the ENCORA and Dancore Coastal Networks.

Paper reviews for:

Continental Shelf Research, Danish Journal of Geography, Ecological Engineering, Estuarine Coastal and Shelf Science, Geo-Marine Letters, Journal of Applied Ecology, Journal of Marine Systems, Journal of Paleolimnology, Journal of Waterway, Port, Coastal, and Ocean Engineering, Latin American Journal of Sedimentology and Basin Analysis, Limnology and Oceanography, Marine and Freshwater Research, Marine Geology, New Zealand Journal of Marine and Freshwater Research, Progress in Physical Geography, Singapore Journal of Tropical Geography

Academic Awards and Honors

“Niels Nielsen award” by the Royal Danish Geographical Society, 2001.

“Niels Kingo Jacobsens Travel Grant”, 1998.

Management and funding

Head of Study board for Geosciences and Management, KU. 2013 – present.

Manager of the Pb-210 and Cs-137 dating laboratory at University of Copenhagen

Head of studies of Geograpy and Geoinformatics 2008-2013,

Funding as PI

2018-2020: Funding by Geocenter Denmark for the project "PlasticHotspot", 1 mill DKK

2017-2019: Funding by the Velux Foundations to the project "MicroPlastDynamics", 1.3 mill DKK

2012-2015: Funding by Danish Natural Research Council to the project POEM, “Past and present influence of exchange of ocean water on subsurface melt and calving at a large tidewater glacier, Sermilik fjord, SE Greenland”, 1.95 mill DKK

2009-2011: Funding by Danish Natural Research Council to the project STORM, “Storm and storm surge control of suspended sediment transport in tidal basins”, 0.95 mill DKK

2004-2007: Steno-Scholarship funded by the Danish Natural Science Research Council, “Quantification and analysis of the recent and Holocene sedimentation in estuaries and coastal lagoons with special emphasis on the influence of biota” ~ 1.5 mill DKK

2002: Guest scientist stipend from GKSS, Germany, ~ 0.2 mill DKK

2002-2004: Post doc funding from the Carlsberg Foundation, “The influence on biology on the transport of fine-grained sediment in coastal areas, ~ 0.8 mill DKK

Funding as project member of projects with a total value of more than 60 mill DKK.

Main Research Activities

Main research activities are within the fields of erosion, transport and deposition of fine-grained cohesive sediment - including microplastics - within estuarine and marine environments and chronostratigraphy and climate history of Holocene deposits. Special attention is given to the interactions between biology and sedimentology, aggregation of fine-grained sediment and fine-grained deposits as climate and environmental archives as well as the influence of sea level rise, storms and storm surges on estuarine sedimentation.  Studies are presently carried out in Greenland, Rødsand Lagoon, the Wadden Sea, The Baltic Sea, Sweden and Vietnam.

International relations

Co-operation with numerous research-groups in Europe, China and Vietnam. More than 150 co-authors on publication list.

Student supervision

Supervisor or co-supervisor of 11 master-thesis projects. Supervisor or co-supervisor of four phd-students. Presently main supervisor of one phd-student.