Professor
Education
Cand.scient in Biology (MSc), University of Copenhagen, Denmark, 1978; Dr.Scient. in Biology (DSc), University of Copenhagen, Denmark, 1998
Professional career:
April 2002 - Research professor in shallow lake ecology in a joint position at NERI and Department of Bioscience, Aarhus University (AU), now Department of Bioscience and the Arctic Research Centre at AU. October 2015 - Full professor, same place. April 2005-2009 - Adjunct professor at the Hubei Key Laboratory of Wetland Evolution & Ecological Restoration, Wuhan Botanical Garden Chinese Academy of Sciences, Wuhan, China; October 2009 - Guest professor at NIGLAS, the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Nanjing, China; January 2010 -2012 - Associated with the Greenland Climate Research Centre, Nuuk. Also associated with the Arctic Research Centre at AU. November 2017 - Honoray Doctorate at Estonian University of Life Sciences. October 2018 - Academic committee member of National Base of International S&T Collaboration on Water Environmental Monitoring and Simulation in Three Gordes Reservoir Region (WEMST), Soutwest University, China 2018-2023.
>500 international peer-reviewed papers. Published 18 international peer-reviewed book chapters, two monographs and >150 reports and papers in Danish. Co-author of chapters in the key climate assessments: IPCC 2007 and the ACIA (Arctic Climate Impact Assessment) 2005. Hirsch index 79 (WOS, >22500 citations) and 100 (Google, >45500 citations). Elected as “Highly Cited Researcher 2018” by Clairvate Analytics.
Teaching post graduate courses in limnology and system analyses. Heading numerous PhD and master courses at Aarhus University and universities Sweden, Turkey, Brazil, Uruguay, Argentina and China in recent years. Supervisor or co-supervisor of >70 MSc theses and 28 PhD theses, including 13 from abroad. At present supervisor for 6 Post Docs from abroad, 8 PhD students (4 from abroad) and 7 MSc students (4 from abroad). Supervised 7 EU Marie Curie grantsholders since 2005.
Reviewer for >40 journals; US NSF; German DFG; Swedish Research Council (board member of Formas for two years); Research Councils, UK, Czech Republic and Portugal. In the editorial board of Ecosystems since 1997, the advisory board of Aquatic Health and Management since 2001, the advisory board of Journal Hydrobiologia since 2007, the editorial board of Freshwater Biology since 2008 and the editorial board of The Journal of Lake Sciences since 2009, of Inland Waters since 2010, of Journal of Egirdir Fisheries Faculty, Suleyman Demirel University, Turkey since 2017 and of LIMNOFISH, Turkey since 2018.
2018
Two Kaeser Scholar invited speeches on climate change effects on freshwater and saline lakes, respectively, at University of Wisconsin, Madison, USA, 26-27Jan., 2018
Speech on lake restoration in a climate change perspective at Institute of Hydrobiology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Wuhan, China 6 August, 2018
Introduction speech at Lake Restoration Symposium at the international SIL conference, Nanjing, China 20 August, 2018
Two invited speeches on climate change effects on freshwaters and climate study approaches, respectively, at Guangzhou University, China 7 and 11 Sep., 2018
Speech on saline lakes and climate change at Nazarbayev University, Astana, Republic of Kazakhstan, 16 Sep., 2018.
Plenary speech on variation in lake responses to local and global stressors at the “BigLakes - Small World“ ELLS-IAGLR-conference, Evian, France, 23-28 Sep., 2018
Plenary speech on cyanobacteria and climate change at the 18th International Conference on Harmful Algae, Nantes, France, 21-26 Oct., 2018
Speech on biological response of lakes to reduced loading at University of Constance, Germany, 29 Oct., 2018
Plenary speech on cross-lake comparisons in a climate change perspective at the NSERC Canadian Lake Pulse Network symposium, Montreal, Canada, 26-27 Nov., 2018
Plenary speech about the legacy of Brian Moss at the 8th Shallow Lakes Conference in Merida, Mexico 19-24 Feb., 2017
Speech on climate effects on freshwater ecosystems at EAWAG, Switzerland, 23 March, 2017
Plenary speech at the French Ministry of the Environment and Agriculture Symposium on Eutrophication, Paris, France 18-20 April, 2017
Speech at a symposium celebrating the Late Prof Brian Moss, Liverpool, UK, 22 April, 2017
Speech on lake response to reduced loading at the Resilience in Socioecological Systems symposium, Nanjing, China 9-11 July 2017
Plenary speech on climate effect on freshwater ecosystems – Brazilian Limnological Conference, Rio, Brazil 24-30 July, 2017
Plenary speech at the 13th International conference on salt lake research, Ulan-Ude, Russia, 21-25 August, 2017
Plenary speech on fish as indicators of lake ecosystems state at the LIMNOFISH symposium, Egidir, Turkey, 5-6 Oct., 2017
Honorary Doctory speech on warming of lakes and collaboration. Tartu, Estonia, 7 Nov.2017