Steen Hannestad - CV 

Personal homepage: http://www.phys.au.dk/~steen

Born: 15 October 1971, Aarhus, Denmark

Education and positions:

• Cand. Scient., University of Aarhus, May 1996
• PhD, University of Aarhus, October 1997
• Dr.Scient., University of Aarhus, September 2005
• Postdoc, Theoretical Astrophysics Center, University of Aarhus, 1997 - 1998
• Postdoc, University of Aarhus, 1998 - 1999
• Postdoc fellowship from the Carlsberg Foundation (Århus and Copenhagen), 1999 - 2000
• Assistant Professor, NORDITA, 2000 - 2002
• Associate Professor, University of Southern Denmark, Odense, 2002 – 2005
• Associate Professor, University of Aarhus, 2005 – 2008
• Full Professor, University of Aarhus, 2008 –
• Director, Danish Astrophysics Research School (DARS), 2006 – 2011
• Corresponding Fellow, NORDITA, 2003 - 2006
• Guest scientist, Max-Planck Institut für Physik, Munich, Germany, 1997
• Guest scientist, CERN, 2004
• Guest Scientist, Max-Planck Institut für Physik, Munich, Germany, 2006, 2008

Honors and awards:

• Friedrich Wilhelm Bessel Research Award from the Alexander von Humboldt foundation 2005.
• Young Elite Researcher’s Award from the Danish Research Council (January 2007).
• Eliteforsk research prize from the Danish Ministry of Science (February 2013)

Publications and talks:

149 papers in total. 111 papers (29 single author) in international peer-reviewed journals and more than 5400 citations in INSPIRE (25 papers with more than 50 citations, 12 papers with more than 100, 1 paper with more than 250). 4950 citations in ADS-Hardvard. h-index of 42 in both INSPIRE and ADS-Harvard.

1 popular science book on modern cosmology (“Fra superstrenge til stjerner”) 2002