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Jacob Sherson

Professor with Special Responsibilities, Professor at MGMT

Jacob Sherson
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Scientific career

  • Also Professor MSO, Dept of Cognitive Science, Aarhus University, Denmark, 2020-2021
  • Also Professor MSO, and director of the Center for Hybrid Intelligence, Dept. of Management, Aarhus University, Denmark, 2020-
  • Professor MSO, Dept. of Physics and Astronomy, Aarhus University, Denmark, 2017-
  • Coordinator of AU-network: Computational modeling of Complex Interactions (CMCI), 2014-2016
  • Associate professor (lektor), Dept. of Physics and Astronomy, Aarhus University, Denmark, 2014-2016
  • Director and founder www.ScienceAtHome.org, Center for Community Driven Research (CODER), 2012-
  • Assistant professor (adjunkt), Dept. of Physics and Astronomy, Aarhus University, Denmark, 2011-2013
  • Marie Curie individual fellow and postdoc, Johannes Gutenberg University, Mainz, in the group of Prof. Immanuel Bloch, 2007-2010

Education

  • PhD studies with Prof. Eugene S. Polzik (experimental work), Niels Bohr Institute, Copenhagen University and Prof. Klaus Mølmer (theoretical work), Dept. of Physics and Astronomy, Aarhus University, Denmark. Thesis (11/2006): “Creation of Distant, Deterministic Entanglement: Experiment and Theory”, 2002-2006
  • BSc in physics, mathematics, and computer sciences (09/2001), Aarhus University, Denmark, 1998-2002 

Teaching experience

Teaching:

  • Main organizer of pan-European Master course on Quantum Technology 2022-
  • Lecturer, elite MGMT course on advanced digitalization, 2020-2021
  • Coordinator of graduate course, Agent based modeling, 2015-2016
  • Lecturer in Advanced Quantum Mechanics (4th year course), 2012-2018
  • Project responsible on second year quantum mechanics course, 2011-
  • Project coordinator on first year waves and optics course, 2011-2012
  • Teaching assistant on various undergraduate courses in both physics and in first year mathematics, 2002-2006

Publication record

101 peer-review papers generating in total roughly 6000 citations, h-index: 27 (GS). Ten publications in high ranking journals (four Nature, four Phys. Rev. Lett., one PNAS, one Nature-Quantum Information). Diverse publications in experimental (24) and theoretical (27) and didactic/citizen science (15) physics, and in AI/HCI, and social and management science (13). 9 first authorships and +50 corresponding authorships. 


Referee for: Journal of Creativity [from 2022], Communications Physics [from 2022] Humanities and Social Sciences Communications [from 2021], Science [from 2018], MDPI-Atoms [from 2015], Physica Scripta [from 2013], Optics Express [from 2011], Nature [from 2010], Phys. Rev. Lett. [from 2009], Journal of Physics B [from 2009], Phys. Rev. A [from 2008], and European Phys. Lett. [from 2007].
 

Awards and Distinctions (selected)

  • Falling Walls Breakthrough of the year in the “Innovation and Science Management” category for Breaking the Wall of Hybrid Intelligence, 2020
  • Advisory board member of Vencortex (AI and hybrid intelligence in corporate decision making), 2020-
  • Steering Committee member, Karanga, the global alliance for Social and Emotional Learning, 2019-
  • Member of the ATV (Danish Academy of Technical Sciences) Council for Technology and Society, 2019-
  • BOLD Awards: Boldest Scientific Project and Boldest AI Project, 2019
  • Scientific advisor for Learning Economy (Blockchain educational technology), 2018-
  • Grundfos Prize, 2018

Public outreach

  • 100+ popular scientific lectures since 2011
  • 100+ press appearances since 2011, including local, national and international newspaper,
  • popular magazine, radio, and television interviews.
  • Appearing in the prize winning human-AI documentary, Almost Human

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