Lektor emeritus
Name, date of birth |
Per Nørnberg, 24 July 1942 |
Academic education, year |
MSc in geology 1973, PhD in soil mineralogy 1980 |
Current affiliation |
Department of Geoscience, Aarhus University, Denmark |
Current position, year |
Associate professor, 1980 |
Total number of publications |
228 (2000- 146) |
Five most important/relevant scientific publications
Anne-Mette Bruun, Kai Finster, Haraldur P. Gunnlaugsson, Per Nørnberg, Michael W. Friedrich. 2010:A Comprehensive Investigation on Iron Cycling in a Freshwater Seep Including Microscopy, Cultivation and Molecular Community Analysis. Geomicrobiology Journal, 27, 1, 15-34. Nørnberg, P., Vendelboe, A.L., Gunnlaugsson, H.P., Merrison, J.P., Finster, K.,Jensen, S.K. 2009. Mineralogy after an experimental forest fire on Quaternary soil goethite, compared with a hematite, maghemite, goethite containing topsoil. Clay Minerals,44, 239-247. Nørnberg, P., Gunnlaugsson, H.P., Merrison, J.P., Vendelboe, A.L. 2009: Salten Skov I: A Martian dust analogue. Planetary and Space Science, 57, 628-631. Merrison, J.P., Gunnlaugsson, H.P., Jensen, S.K., Nørnberg, P. 2009 Mineral alteration induced by sand transport; a source for the reddish colour of Mars. Icarus, 205, 716-718. Nørnberg, P., Schwertmann, U., Stanjek, C.B., Andersen, T., Gunnlaugsson, H.P. 2004: Mineralogy of Quaternary iron oxide rich formations in Denmark.Clay Minerals, 39, 85-98. |
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Articles (Peer reviewed) |
Monographs |
Book chapters |
Proceedings |
Other |
Total: |
69 (44) |
3 (2) |
11 (3) |
81 (68) |
66 (31) |
(Numbers in brackets are the last 10 years)
Students total: M.Sc.: 38, Ph.D.: 5, Lab. Technicians: 31
Citations: ISI Web of Knowledge, Sum of citations: 599, 62 publ. Average citations: 9.66, h-index: 15.
Selected Distinctions
Censor Univ. of Copenhagen and Univ. of Roskilde. Evaluated competent for a full professorship in soil science, The Agricultural University, Aas, Norway. Evaluation committee at Full professorship, University of California, Davis, U.S.A. and two Associate professorships, Uppsala University, Sweden. Referee: Can. J. of Soil Science, Biogeochemistry., Geografisk Tidsskrift, Soil Science Society America Journal, Geoderma and Measurement Science and Technology. Head of Strategic Environmental Programme I (SMPI) project, Department of Earth Sciences, AU. Participant in SMPII. Member of Ph.D. board, Dept. of Earth Sciences, AU. Participated in > 70 congresses or workshops. |
Grants awarded
Received research grants for totally 10.8 MDkr up til 2000. Externally funded projects 2001-: ESA-følgeforskn. (2001-2003), 1.3 MDkr. ESA-følgeforskn. (2002), 658 kDkr. NF, AU (2001-2002) 201 kDkr. (2003-2008). Project leader for five small environmental projects with private companies and local counties. Funding total: 1.1 MDkr. Renewal of EDAX-system for TEM (2003), NF, AU 175 kDkr. Joint acquisition of powder XRD-instrument Geology/Chemistry (2003) SNF 728 kDkr.. ExoMars (2005-2009), Villum Kann Rasmussen Foundation 2.6 MDkr. ESA (2005-2006), DDES/MEDUSA wind dust instrument 10.000 Euro, ESA (2007-2008) LAMDA, Innoware A/S, wind dust instrument development, (total 500.000 Euro), AU-part: 62.996 Euro. ExoMars (2007-2009) Villum Kann Rasmussen Foundation 1.7 MDkr. ESA (2007-2009) AWTSII- Solar cell test facility at AU: 400.000 Euro. Villum Foundation 1.7 MDkr. (2011-2013).
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Management skills
Centre leader of the SMP I project “Heath” 1992-96 with participants from Aarhus University, Copenhagen University, Risø and National Environmental Research Institute. Project leader on the SMP II project “Soroflux” 1997-2001 with participation from Aarhus University and Risø. Initiator and leader of the Mars Simulation Laboartory, Aarhus University 1999- with participation from four institutes at Aarhus University and the Niels Bohr Institute, Copenhagen University. The clear leadership is stated by the International Space Research Peer Review Panel in 2008. |