2012 – Professor and founding head of the Section for Neutrons and X-rays for Materials PhysicsDepartment of Physics, Technical University of Denmark. The section numbers 5 full professors, 3 senior scientists, 1 associate professor, and 5 research engineers. With post docs and PhDs a total of ~45 staff, up from 12 staff at the founding.
2012 – Adjunct Professor in X-ray Free Electron Laser Physics, Niels Bohr Institute, University of Copenhagen, Denmark (reappointed 2018)
Previous Positions
2018 – 2022 Vice Chair of the European XFEL Council, European XFEL GmbH,
2014 – 2018 Chair of the European XFEL Council, European XFEL GmbH.
2005 – 2013 Director, Danish National Research Foundation Centre for Molecular Movies,
Niels Bohr Institute, Uni. Copenhagen and Risø DTU, Technical University of Denmark
2005 – 2010 Professor, Niels Bohr Institute, University of Copenhagen
2000 – 2005 Senior Scientist, the Danish Polymer Centre, Risø National Laboratory, Denmark
1997 – 2000 Post Doctoral Fellow, Dept. of Cond. Mat. Phys. and Chem., Risø Natl. Lab., Denmark
1996 – 1997 Post Doctoral Fellow, Institut für Grenzflächenforschung, FZ Jülich, Germany.
Education
1996 Ph.D. Supervisor D.L. Adams, Department of Physics, Aarhus University, Denmark.
1994 M.Sc. Department of Physics, Aarhus University, Denmark.
Grants (2013-present)
- Center for Molecular Movies, Danish National Research Foundation (2005-2013), PI, 4.5 MEUR.
- Instrumentation for the FXE instrument, the European XFEL, DASTI (2012-2019), PI, 3.6 MEUR
- DANSCATT Instrument center for use of X-ray synchrotron and neutron sources, and free electron lasers, DASTI (annually renewed), 540 kEUR (70 kEUR department share), Co-PI.
- Atomistic mechanisms for ultrafast energy transfer), DFF FNU FP2 (2014-2019), PI, 900 kEUR
- Trajectories of Charge and Structural dynamics …, DFF FNU FP2 (2018-2022), PI, 800 kEUR
- UltraSol, DFF Green Transition FP2 (2022-2026), PI, 900 kEUR
Total Funding awarded (2001-present): Approximately 25 MEUR. Of which 14 MEUR was granted with me as lead-PI in national projects or as national lead (co-PI) in European projects.
Beamtimes awarded at free electron x-ray lasers: 35: 15 at LCLS, 8 at SACLA, 3 at SwissFEL and 9 at the European XFEL, or about 3 per year since the start of hard X-ray XFELS in 2010. The corresponding value of operation cost associated with each XFEL beamtime is of the order of 4-800 kEUR. Access is provided freely to the user groups after a highly competitive peer review process.
Awards: The Rene Descartes Prize by the European Commission (2000). Numerous awards to my students
Selected institutional responsibilities and selected commissions of trust
2019 – Chair, Council Working Group for the development of user communities, EuXFEL
2019 – Responsible for Research Data Policies, DTU Physics, Techn. Univ. Denmark
2018 Chair, Search and Selection Committee for a Scientific Director, EuXFEL
2017 Chair, Search and Selection Committee for the Director of Administration, EuXFEL
2016 – 17 Chair, Working Group defining the first operation budget for EuXFEL
2015 – 16 Chair, Search and Selection Committee for the next Director General of the EuXFEL
2015 – 17 Chair, Negotiation committee for UK accession to the EuXFEL
2015 – Responsible for Continuing Education, DTU Physics, Techn. Univ. Denmark
2015 – Board Member of ISA/ASTRID2 synchrotron facility, University of Aarhus, Denmark
2014 – 15 Chair, Working Group defining the cost of the extended construction for EuXFEL
2013 – Board member of DANSCATT, Danish center for use of X-ray and Neutron facilities
2012 – Faculty member, DTU Physics, Technical University of Denmark
2012 – Adjunct professor and faculty member, University of Copenhagen, Niels Bohr Institute, DK
2010 – 14 Delegate to the European XFEL Council
Selected reviewing activities
2020 Member of the Physics Review Panel of the Finnish Academy of Science
2019 – Chair of Photon Science Proposal Review Committee at PSI, Switzerland
2019 – Member, Photon Science Advisory Committee at PSI, Switzerland
2019 Reviewer ERC Advanced Grant
2018 – Chair of Proposal Review Committee subpanel for the XFEL facility SwissFEL, Switzerland
2018 – Reviewer for the Swedish Research Council and the Italian Ministry of Research (‘PRIN’)
2017 Chair of assessment committee, Associate professorship, DTU
2015 Chair of assessment committee, Honorary Doctorate, DTU
2013 Evaluator of the Research Complex at Harwell (RCaH) for the MRC Research Council, UK
2013 Chair of assessment committee, Full Professorship, DTU
2005 – Reviewer for the Nature Group and Science Magazine
Careers of previous post docs and PhD’s include: 3 full professors (Univ. Copenhagen, NTNU, DTU), 2 senior scientists (DTU), 3 beamline scientists at XFELs (LCLS, EuXFEL and SwissFEL).