Cand.scient. in Physics
Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Aarhus

Guest scientist at Oak Ridge National Laboratory, USA

Lic.scient. in Physics
Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Aarhus

Assistant Professor in Physics ("adjunkt")
Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Aarhus

Dr.scient. in physics
Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Aarhus

Associate Professor in physics (lektor)
Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Aarhus

Visiting Fellow at JILA, University of Colorado, Boulder, USA

Professor in Physics, University of Aarhus

Head of the Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Aarhus

Dean of the Faculty of Science and Technology, University of Aarhus
Dean of the Natural Sciences Faculty, University of Aarhus

Professor in Physics, University of Aarhus

Received the title of Knight of the Order of Dannebrog from Her Majesty Queen Margrethe II of Denmark

Member of the international organizing committee for the International Conference on the Physics of Highly Charged Ions

Member of the CRYRING Program Advisory Committee (CPAC) in Stockholm

Member of the executive committee for The International Conference on the Physics of Electronic and Atomic Collisions (ICPEAC)

Member of the international organizing committee for the International Conference on the Physics of Highly Charged Ions (HCI-98)

Member of the evaluation board for the Atomic, Molecular and Optical Physics at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory (DOE)

Member of the Nuclear Physics European Collaboration Committee (NuPECC)

Member of the local organizing committee for the 3rd Euro-conference on Atomic Physics at Accelerators (APAC2001

Member of the general committee for The International Conference on the Physics of Photonic, Electronic and Atomic Collisions (ICPEAC)

Member of the international organizing committee for the International Conference on Electrons, Molecules and Swarms (EMS-2003), Prague 2003

Chairman of the conference: Photoactive biomolecules in the gas phase in liquids and in vivo, Aarhus 2003

Member of the international scientic committee for thevSixth International Conference on the Dissociative Recombination: Theory, Experiments and applications, Heidelberg 2004

Member of the international scientic committee for the First International Workshop on Electrostatic Storage Devices, Israel 2005

Member of the Biophysical Society

Member of the European Physical Society

Chairman of the conference: European Conference on Atoms, Molecules and Photons (ECAMP09), Crete 2007

Chair of the Atomic, Molecular and Optical Physics Division at the European Physical Society

Member of the Board of the Atomic, Molecular and Optical Physics Division at the European Physical Society

Member of the Commission C15 (Atomic, Molecular and Optical Physics) under International Union of Pure and Applied Physics (IUPAP)

Co-chairman of the conference: Aarhus-Weizmann-HUJI workshop on photophysical properties of retinal and other molecules, Israel 2010

2013

Local Chairman for the European Conference on Atoms, Molecules and Photons, Aarhus (ECAMP)

2013-17

Member of the general committee for The International Conference on the Physics of Photonic, Electronic and Atomic
Collisions (ICPEAC)

2013-17

Member of the Felix programme advisory committee, Nejmegen, Holland

2015-17

Alternate member of The Danish Committees on Scientic Dishonesty

EU Scientic Cooperation Network on Electron-Ion Interaction using Stored Cooled Heavy-Ion Beams (1994-97)

Staff member of the Aarhus Center for Atomic Physics (ACAP) - (1994-2003)

Member of the ULTRA short laser pulse network under the European Science Foundation

EU Scientic Cooperation Network on Electron-Transfer Reactions (2000-2003)

Member of COST Action CA18212 on Molecular Dynamics in the Gas Phase (2019-2023)

Reviewer for The Swedish Research Council

Reviewer for Netherlands Organisation for Scientic Research (the Dutch Research Council)

Proposal reviewer in the FELIX Program Advisory Committee

Proposal reviewer in the CRYRING Program Advisory Committee (CPAC) in Stockholm

Reviewer for the Swiss National Science Foundation 

Reviewer for the Rektorat of the University Innsbruck

Reviewer for The World Academy of Sciences (TWAS)

Reviewer for numerous scientic Journals in physics and chemistry

Invited lectures (online) for students at Moscow State University, 2020: Experimental Photo Physics with Stored Molecules

13thEUROPEAN CONFERENCE ON ATOMS, MOLECULES AND PHOTONS, Florence, 2019 Invited talk: Time-resolved
action-spectroscopy of chromophore ions studied in an ionstorage ring

MEthods and ALgorithms in Quantum Chemistry (MEAL-2018), Aarhus, 2018 Invited talk: The use of ion-storage rings
for action spectroscopy of biochromophores

Workshop on the Photophysics of biomolecular ions, Telluride, CO, August 2017 Invited lectures: I) Time-resolved
action spectroscopy and II) Excited state lifetimes of biochromophore ions 

7th International Workshop on Electrostatic Storage Devices, Lyon, France, 2017. Plenary lecture: Ultrafast molecular
dynamics studied in an ion storage ring

International workshop on From Ultrafast to Ultraslow Dynamics in Molecules and Clusters, Weizmann Institute of
Science, Israel, 2017, Invited talk: Excited-state dynamics studied by fs pump-probe techniques in an ion storage ring

Workshop on Research Opportunities at Cryogenic Electrostatic Storage Rings, Heidelberg, Germany 2016, Invited talk:
Light-triggered Photoresponse of Organic Chromophores, Studied in Ion Storage Rings

Gordon Research Conferences on Photoionization and Photodetachment, Lucca, Italy 2016, Section leader: Clusters
and Complex Molecules

The Energetic Processing of Large Molecules, Stockholm, Sweden 2016, Invited talk: Time-resolved studies of molecular
processes in ion storage rings

MOLEC2014, Göteborg, Sweden, 2014, Invited talk: Timeresolved action spectroscopy in ion storage rings

Conference in Isolated Biomolecules and Biomolecular Interactions, Porquerolles, France, 2014, Invited talk: Biochromophores
studied by action spectroscopy

5th InternationalWorkshop on Electrostatic Storage Devices, Heidelberg,Germany, 2013, Plenary lecture: Ions in the gas
phase, studied in electrostatic ion-storage rings

Gordon Research Conference on Gaseous Ions: Structure, Energetics and Reactions, Galveston, TX, USA, 2011: Spectroscopy
and dynamics of bio-molecular ions

Gordon Research Conference on Atomic and Molecular Interactions, New London, NH, USA, 2010: Electronic spectroscopy
of organic chromophores near the detachment limit

Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel, 2010: Chromophores in vacuum - an Introduction

Stockholm University, 2010: Laser and accelerator based studies of gas-phase biological chromophores

Gordon Research Conference on Photoions, Photoionization and Photodetachment, Galveston, TX, USA, 2010: Electronic
spectroscopy of organic chromophores near the detachment limit

Third International Workshop on Electrostatic Storage Devices, Aarhus, 2009: Spectral tuning of protein photoabsorption

DAE-BRNS Symposium on Atomic, Molecular and Optical Physics, Inter University Accelerator Centre, New Delhi,
2009: Photo-absorption studies of gas-phase biological chromophores

Symposium, Physics with Cold Stored Ion Beams, Max Planck Hauss, Heidelberg, 2008: Energy, Temperature and Decay of
Stored Molecular Ions

Syddansk Universitet, Odense, General Physics Colloquia, 2007: Photoabsorption of chromophores of photoactive proteins
in vacuum

Göteborg University, 2007: Dissociative Recombination

International symposium on Retinal Proteins, Bremen, Germany, 2007: Electronic Spectroscopy of Retinal Chromophore
Ions in the Gas Phase

International symposium Molecular Response to Electronic Excitation, Bad Muenstereifel, Germany, 2007: Photoabsorption
of Chromophores of Photoactive Proteins in the Gas-Phase a Point of reference

ISACC 2007, Clustering phenomenon in systems of various degrees of complexity, GSI, Darmstadt, Germany,
2007:  Spectroscopy and decay of chromophore ions in the gas phase

ESF-FWF Conference: Biomolecules From Gas Phase Properties to Reactions Relevant in Living Cells, Austria 2006:
Probing Proteins by Photo-Absorption Studies in an Electrostatic Storage Ring 

Gordon Conference on Photoions, Photoionization and Photodetachment, Buelton, USA, 2006: Environmental Stabilization
of Short-Lived Gas-Phase Dianions Probed by Electron Scattering

Institut de Physique et Chimie des Matriaux de Strasbourg, France, 2005: Gas-Phase Absorption Spectroscopy of Chromophores
from photoactive proteins

The First International Workshop on Electrostatic Storage Devices, Eilat, Israel, 2005: Photoabsorption of Gas-Phase
Chromophores, Studied at the Electrostatic Storage Ring ELISA

The Chemistry Department at Sienna University, Italy, 2005: Photo-Absorption Measurements of Protein Chromophores
in Vacuo.

European Research Conference, Exeter, England, 2004: Gasphase Absorption Spectroscopy of Chromophore Ions in a
Storage Ring

European Conference on Atomic and Molecular Physics (ECAMP VIII), Rennes, France, 2004: The Photophysics of Bio-Molecules

The Sixth International Conference on Dissociative Recombination: Theory, Experiment and Applications. Mosbach, 
Germany, 2004: Electron Scattering on Solvated and Large Molecular Anions

ETR summer school, London, 2003: Electrostatic Storage Rings

The 3rd Annual Meeting of the European Network LEIF, Igls, Austria, 2002: The Photophysics of Chromophore Molecules
in the Gas Phase, in Liquids and in Proteins

International Workshop on Atomic Physics Research at Storage Rings, Lanzhow, China, 2002: Photoabsorption Studies
of Chromophores at the ELISA Storage Ring

The 2nd Conference on Elementary Processes in Atomic Systems, Gdansk, Poland, 2002: Negative-Ion Studies in Storage
Rings

Stockholm University, 2002: Protein Chromophores Studied in a Small Storage Ring

KVL, Copenhagen 2002: Absorption Studies of Protein Chromophores

20th International Conference on the Physics of Electronic and Atomic Collisions (ICPEAC), Santa Fee, USA 2001: Electron
Scattering on Negative Ions

43rd Euro conference on Atomic Physics at Accelerators: APAC 2001, Aarhus: Electron Scattering on Stored Negative Ions

2001 Annual Meeting, Danish Optical Society, Aarhus: Green Fluorescent Protein Dynamics

EU-network meeting, Prague, 2001: Progress Report on Electron Scattering at ASTRID and ELISA

TMR-Astrophysical chemistry network meeting, Aarhus, 2000: Studies of Interactions Between Electrons and Molecular Ions
in a Heavy-ion Storage Ring

New Trends in Atomic Physics, Aarhus, 2000: Probing Atomic and Molecular Structure and Dynamics by Electron Collisions

American Physical Society, Division of Atomic, Molecular and Optical meeting (DAMOP), Storrs, CT, USA, 2000: Studies
of Molecular Negative Ions in Storage Rings

MOLEC2000, Jerusalem, Israel, 2000: Coulomb and centrifugal barrier bound dianions

First general meeting of the ULTRA program, Coimbra, Portugal, October 2000: Molecular Photo-Electron and Rearrangement
Studies on the fs Time-Scale

Symposium on storage rings, Beijing, China, 1999: Molecular Physics at the ASTRID Storage Ring

Fourth International Conference on dissociative recombination, Theory, Experiment and Applications, Stockholm, 1999: 
Electron Scattering Experiments at the ASTRID Storage Ring.

The ECAMP VI conference, Siena, 1998

The joint APS and AMOP annual meeting, Washington DC, USA, 1997

29th EGAS (European Group for Atomic Spectroscopy), Berlin, Germany, 1997

The International Symposium on Electron-Molecule Collisions and Ion and Electron Swarms, Engelberg, Switzerland,
1997: Electron-molecular ion interactions at low energy (Hot topic).

The Annual European Network Meeting on Storage Ring Physics, Heidelberg 1997

Invited lecture, the HCØ institute at Copenhagen University, 1996

The 2nd Euroconference on "Atomic Physics with Stored Highly Charged Ions", Stockholm, Sweden, 1996

The Third International Symposium on "Dissociative Recombination: Theory, Experiment and Application", Ein Gedi, 
Israel,1995

The Gordon Research Conference on Atomic Physics,Wolfeboro, NH, USA, 1995

The European Research Conference on the Electronic and Atomic Collisions: Processes at Low and Ultralow Energies,
Giens, France, 1994

18th International Conference on the Physics of Electronic and Atomic Collisions (ICPEAC), Aarhus, Denmark, 1993

ISA Users' Meeting, Aarhus, 1992

US-Mexico Cooperative Joint Symposium on Atomic and Molecular Physics, Mexico City, Mexico, 1991

NATO Advanced Research Workshop on Recombination of Atomic Ions, Belfast, Northern Ireland, 1991

Symposium on the Physics of Highly Charged Ions, Abisco, Sweden, 1990

5th International Conference on the Physics of Highly-Charged Ions, Giessen, Germany, 1990

19th INS International Symposium on Cooler Rings and Their Applications, Tokyo, Japan, 1990

2nd Topsøe Summer School on Physics around Small Storage Rings, Ebeltoft, Denmark, 1989

3rd International Conference on Atomic Collisions in Solids, Aarhus, Denmark, 1989

Colloquium at the Max Planck Institute in Heidelberg, Germany, 1989

Symposium on Ion-Cooler Ring Experiments, Abisco, Sweden, 1988

15th International Conference on the Physics of Electronic and Atomic Collisions, Brighton, United Kingdom, 1987

Workshop and Symposium on the Physics of Low-energy Stored and Trapped Particles, Stockholm, Sweden, 1987

14th International Conference on the Physics of Electronic and Atomic Collisions, San Francisco, USA, 1985

Dansk Fysisk Selskabs årsmøde, Nyborg Strand, 1985

Second European Conference on Atomic and Molecular Physics, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, 1985

IEEE Conference on the Application of Accelerators in Research and Industry, North Texas State University, USA, 1982

International Workshop on Electron Emission, Aarhus, 1982

Elektron-ion rekombination. Foredrag i Jysk Selskab for Fysik og Kemi, Aarhus, 1993

Atomfysik - forskning og viden, Aarhus, 1998

Biofysik studeret med atomfysiske metoder, Aarhus, 2004

Tro-viden, troskab-videnskab. Foredrag i Skaldborg Kirke, Aalborg, 2007

Naturvidenskab og kristendom. Teologisk Vokensundervisning i Aalborg Stift, 2009

Mening fra tidernes morgen: Det antropiske princip i universet. Seminar om mening med tiden, Institut for kommunikation, Aalborg Universitet, 2009

Forskere afliver flygtig luftart, Berlingske Tidende, 21. juni 1996

Arhus forsker løser atomgåde, Århus Stiftstidende, 21. juni 1996

Fysikere bemærker sig på verdensplan, Århus Stiftstidende, 20. juli 1997

Himlens grønne farve forklaret i Århus, Ingeniøren, 29. august 1997

Nyt om navne, Dagens Medicin, 27. februar 2009

Universets store sammenhæng, Kristelig Dagblad 10. juli 2012

Assistant head of the Institute board: 1.2.1996-31.1.1998

Member of the Institute board: 1.2.1998-31.1.1999

Substitute for the head of the Department (in periods acting head of Department): 1.2.1999-31.1.2001

VIP representative on the Institute board: 2006 - 2011

Member of the Institute-research committee: 2007 -

Vice head of the Institute board: 15.10.2010-28.2.2011

Head of the Institute board: 1.3.2011 - 30.06.2011

Head of the Department: 1.7.2011 - 30.6.2018

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PhD thesis 1994
Now Professor in Stockholm

PhD thesis 1997
Deceased

PhD thesis 1999
Now lecturer at Aarhus University

PhD thesis 2001
Now patent agent in the US

PhD thesis 2003
Now department of clinical medicine, Aarhus University

PhD thesis 2005
Now Ordrup Gymnasium

PhD thesis 2006
Now industrial research: Terma, Denmark

PhD thesis 2011
Now industrial research, Norway

PhD thesis 2012
Now medical Physicist, Odense University Hospital

PhD thesis 2015
Now VESTAS, Aarhus

PhD thesis 2019
Now Aarhus University