Professor
PERSONAL INFORMATION
Name: Michael Rohr Drewsen
Date of birth: 4 April 1965
Nationality: Danish
OrcID: http://orcid.org/0000-0002-0420-9923
URL for web site: http://phys.au.dk/forskning/forskningsomraader/atomar-molekylaer-og-optisk-fysik/the-ion-trap-group/
EDUCATION
1994 Mar PhD degree
Department of Physics and Astronomy, Aarhus University, Denmark
(10 moths stay in the group of C. Cohen-Tannoudji, l'Ecole Normale Supérieure in Paris, France)
CURRENTPOSITION
2014 – Full Professor, Department of Physics and Astronomy, Aarhus University
PREVIOUS POSITIONS
2009 – 2014 Full Professor MSO, Department of Physics and Astronomy, Aarhus University
2001 – 2009 Associate Professor, Department of Physics and Astronomy, Aarhus University
1997 – 2001 Associate Research Professor, Aarhus Center of Advanced Physics (ACAP), Aarhus University
1995 – 1997 Assistant Research Professor, Aarhus Center of Advanced Physics (ACAP), Aarhus University
1993 – 1995 Postdoc, Group of Prof. Jürgen Mlynek, Universität Konstanz, Germany
FELLOWSHIPS AND AWARDS
2016 Elected member of the Royal Danish Academy of Sciences and Letters
2015 Elected fellow of the American Physical Society
2013 DFF Sapere Aude Advanced Grant
1998 Ole Rømer Foundation Award
1996 Kirstine Meyers Memory Award
SUPERVISION OF GRADUATE STUDENTS AND POSTDOCTORAL FELLOWS
Current supervision
3 postdocs
3 PhD students
1 Master student
Previous supervision
15 postdocs have been employed in my group (*)
15 PhD students have graduated from my group (**)
30 Master students have graduated from my group (***)
(*) Four are in permanent positions at an academic institution (Aurélien Dantan, Aarhus University, DK; Solvejg Jørgensen, University of Copenhagen, DK; Joan Marler, Clemson University, USA; Ian Leroux, Research Associate, Measurement Science and Standards, National Research Council Canada), one has obtained Sapere Aude II grant from The Danish Council for Independent Research (DFF), Denmark (Aurélien Dantan, Aarhus University, DK)
(**) Three have permanent positions at a university or research institution (Liv Hornekær, Aarhus University, Denmark; Niels Kjærgaard, University of Otago, NewZealand; Ivan Vogelius, Clinical Professor, Copenhagen University/Rigshospitalet, Denmark), one has obtained both the ERC Starting Grant and ERC Consolidator Grant (Liv Hornekær, Aarhus University, Denmark).
(***) One has a permanent position at a university or research institution and has obtained the Sapere Aude II grant from The Danish Council for Independent Research (DFF) (Kristian Mølhave, Technical University of Denmark).
ORGANISATION OF SCIENTIFIC MEETINGS
2011 Chairman of the first International Workshop on cold molecular ions, Sandbjerg Estate, November 23-25, 2011
2010 Appointed one of the four chairmen for the ECAMP 11 conference in 2013 (~600 participants) by EPS.
2006 Chairman of the international “Workshop on Non-Neutral Plasmas” held in June 2006 at Aarhus University
2005- Member of the scientific committee of more than 20 international meeting.
COMMISSIONS OF TRUST
2016 Advisory committee member of SUPERTRAP lab, Fudan University, Shanghai, China
2015 – 2018 Appointed member of the Danish Council for Independent Research (DFF)
2015 – 2018 Appointed member of the Danish National Committee for Research Infrastructures (NUFI) under the Ministry of Research and Education
2015 – 2018 Appointed member of the Nordic Association for the Natural Sciences, NOS-N
RESEARCH ASSESSMENT SERVICE
2017 Head of assessment committee for Head of Department at the Niels Bohr Institute (NBI), Copenhagen University, Denmark
2017 Reviewer for promotion of academic positions at University of Sussex, UK, Duke University, USA, and NUS, Singapore.
2012 & 2014 Panel Reviewer for the Canada Foundation for Innovation (11 infrastructure applications)
2011 – 2012 Reviewer on four applications to the the Danish National Advanced Technology Foundation (Højteknologifonden), Denmark
2011 Panel-reviewer for Deutsche Forschnungsgemeinshcaft (DFG) within the prestigious “Excellence Initiative” by the German Federal and State Governments to Promote Science and Research at German Universities
2010 Member of assessment committee for a Associate Professor position at the Technical University of Denmark (DTU)
2010 Chair of assessment committee for a Associate Professor position at Aarhus University, Denmark
2009 Assessment committee member for a Full Professor position of the University of Mainz, Germany
2009 Assessment committee member for an Assistant Professor position of the University of Stockholm, Sweden
2007 – 2010 Yearly panel-reviewer of EU’s Integrated Project SCALA (~30 research partners, total budget of MEUR 7.0)
2007 Panel-reviewer of an EPSRC ”Interdisciplinary Research Collaboration” initiative in UK focused on Quantum Information Processing (budget MEUR 9.0)
MEMBERSHIPS OF SCIENTIFIC SOCIETIES
2016 – 2020 Danish representative in the Management Committee for the COST Action CA15220 "Quantum Technologies in Space" (QTSpace)
2008 – 2011 Danish representative in the European Research Group (GDRE) "International Cold Atom Network" (INTERCAN) with focus on cold matter
2010 – 2014 Danish representative in the Management Committee for the COST action MP1001 "Ion Trapping for Tomorrow’s Applications" (IOTA)
2006 – 2012 Board member of "European Group for Atomic Systems" (EGAS) under EPS
RESEARCH MANAGEMENT
2018 – 2021 CO-PI EU Horizon 2020 FET OPEN project “Testing the Large-Scale Limit of Quantum Mechanics” (TEQ)
2014 – 2017 Coordinator of the EU FP7 ITN “Cold Molecular Ions at the Quantum Limit” (COMIQ)
2014 – 2018 Steering committee member (2014 – 2015) and head of (2016 – 2018) “Danish Center for Laser Infrastructure” (LASERLAB.DK)
2011 – 2014 Node-leader for EU FP7 ITN “Circuit and Cavity Electrodynamics” (CCQED)
2010 – 2014 Node-leader for the EU IST STREP “Physics of Ion Coulomb Crystals” (PICC)
2008 – 2012 Node-leader for the EU FP7 ITN “Ultrafast control of quantum systems by strong laser fields” (FASTQUAST)
2007 – 2010 Node-leader for the ESF EUROCORES EuroQUAM network "Cavity Mediated Molecular Cooling" (CMMC)
2006 – 2009 Node-leader for the EU FP6 IST STREP “Development of a pan-European Microtrap Technology capability for Trapped Ion Quantum Information Science” (MICROTRAP) with focus on miniature ion traps for quantum computing
2006 – 2012 Aarhus-branch leader of QUANTOP
2001 – 2012 Principal investigator (2001-2006) and Aarhus-branch leader (2006-2012) of the "Danish Center for Quantum Optics" (QUANTOP) funded by the Danish National Research Foundation.
1999 – Leader of the Ion Trap Group, Department of Physics and Astronomy, Aarhus University