Professor

• Research interests in the theoretical description of surfaces, catalysis, materials, nanostructures, and biomolecules.
• Approximately 330 published papers (cited 19.926 times, SCI September 2008, Hirsch index 77), 11 patents or patent applications.

• Visiting Professor at the University of Wisconsin as well as at the University of California
• Postdoc at the IBM T. J. Watson Research Center, Yorktown Heights, New York
• Member of the board of various international journals and societies
• Invited speaker at innumerable international conferences

Awards and honors:

• Gabor A. Somorjai Award for Creative Research in Catalysis, 237^th ACS National Meeting, Salt Lake City, USA, March 2009.
• Kenneth S. Pitzer Memorial Lectureship, Department of Chemistry, University of California, Berkeley, USA, March 2009.
• Science of Hydrogen and Energy Award, EMPA, Switzerland, January 2009.
• The Grundfos Prize, Copenhagen, September 2007
• Olaf A. Hougen Visiting Professorship, Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering, University of Wisconsin, Madison, USA, fall 2007
• Mulliken Medal and Lectureship, University of Chicago, Illinois, USA, May 2007
• Dr. Honoris Causa, Technical University of Eindhoven, The Netherlands, April 2006
• The Innovation Prize, DTU, May 2005
• Magister Lecturer, University of Barcelona, Spain, April 2004
• Distinguished Catalyst Lectureship, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Washington, USA, February 2004
• Elected Fellow of the American Physical Society, 2003
• Richard A. Glenn Award, 225^th ACS National Meeting, New Orleans, Louisiana, USA, March 2003
• G.C.A. Schuit Lectureship, University of Delaware, May 2002
• Ford Distinguished Lectureship, Dearborn, Michigan, 2001
• Gwathmey Distinguished Lectureship, University of Virginia, 1998 
• Elected member of the Royal Danish Academy of  Science and Letters, 1996
• Villum Kann Rasmussens Award, Lyngby, 1991 
• The Danish Physical Society's Prize of 1990
• Samuel Friedman (Rescue) Award, University of California Los Angeles, 1989
• Reinholdt W. Jorch's Award, Copenhagen 1987
• Elected member of the Danish Academy of the Technical Sciences (ATV), 1987
• Research professor by special appointment by the Minister of Research and Education, 1987
• ECOSS prize, Cambridge, UK 1979

Miscellaneous:

• Co-chair US National Academies Committee on the Review of the U.S. Department of Energy Basic Energy Sciences Catalysis Science Program, 2008
• Member of the Scientific Advisory Board of the Center for Nano-technology, University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany, 2007-
• Member of the Advisory Board and Scientific Committee of the State Key Laboratory for Surface Physics (SKLSP), Chinese Academy of Sciences & Division of Surface Physics, Beijing National Lab for Condensed Matter Physics, 2006-
• Member of the International Advisory Board, The Partnership for International Research and Education, University of California, Santa Barbara, USA, 2005-
• Member of the Scientific Advisory Board, Photo-nano Program, Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden, 2004 –
• Member of  the Science Committee  for the Danish Academy of the Technical Sciences 2004 -2007
• Member of the Scientific Advisory Board, Center for Functional Nanostructures, Brookhaven National Laboratory, USA, 2003 –
• Member of the Danish Research Council for the Technical Sciences, 2000-2003
• Member of the Committee for the Niels Bohr Medal 1997 -
• Member of the physics evaluation committee under the Swedish Research Council for the Technical Sciences (TFR), 1993-1998
• Member of the Chemistry and Materials Sub-committee under the Danish Research Council for the Technical Sciences, 1987-1996
• Member of the Fachbeirat der Fritz-Haber-Institut der Max-Planck Gesellshaft, 1986-2004
• Member of the Materials Research Society
• Member of the American Chemical Society
• Member of the American Physical Society
• Member of the Editorial Board of Journal of Chemical Physics, 2006-
• Member of the Scientific Editorial Board of Computational Science and Discovery, 2006-
• Member of the Editorial Board of Journal of Molecular Catalysis A: Chemical, 2004-
• Member of the International Advisory Board of the Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics Journal, 2001-2004
• Member of the Editorial Board of Journal of Catalysis 1997-
• Member of the Editorial Board of Industrial Catalysis News, 1998-1999
• Member of the Editorial Board of Catalysis Letters, 1995-
• Member of the Editorial Board of Surface Science, 1995-1999
• Member of the Editorial Board of Surface Review and Letters, 1994-
• Member of the Editorial Board of Chemical Physics Letters, 1994-1996, 2007-

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