Profile

• Associate Professor at DTU-Environment
• Biometeorological and Ecosystemsresearch 
• University teaching at DTU and Göttingen University (Germany)

Other information

-  Site PI of long-term observation study sites of the global flux research network FLUXNET and the Integrated Carbon Observation System (ICOS).

- Member of the Monitoring System Assembly of ICOS and the steering comittee og ICOS Denmark 

- European Geophysical Union member since 1996, convener of session Air-Land Interactions since 2008. Associated Editor Biogeosciences

- Member of the ‘The Nordic Centre for studies of Ecosystem Carbon Exchange (NECC)’

- Danish representative of the COST actions PROFOUND and member of COST actions ABBA, FP903 and CLIMMANI.

- Peer review in 20 international, scientific journals.

- Research proposal assessment for German, Irish, Dutch and Swedish research institutions and funding agencies

Research areas

Biometeorology:

-       Long-term micrometeorology at 5 intensive meteorological tower sites – high quality, continuous atmospheric measurements of motion, energy content and radiation

-       Development of the eddy covariance technique and turbulence data post processing (data quality control, correction for low-pass filtering effects in tubes, development of commercial sensor designs and software.

-       3D biophysical modeling of radiative transfer and canopy photosynthesis in forests and agroforestry systems.

-       Deposition of atmospheric trace substances to terrestrial ecosystems

Ecosystems research:

-       CO₂ and H₂O gas exchange with the atmosphere (leaves, soil, ecosystem)

-       Ecosystem Carbon budgets and their components

-       Nitrogen deposition and cycling in forests.

-       Dynamic ecosystem modeling (MixForSvat, COUP, Biome-BGC) and model intercomparisons (a number of models from European modeling groups)

-       Regional greenhouse gas balances

Industrial Ecology

-       Environmental sustainability concepts for industrial systems from local to global scales

-       Material and energy flows in industrial and natural ecosystems

-       Life cycle assessment

-       Ecological network analysis for eco industrial parks

Interdisciplinary, cross cultural research

-       Effects of land-use and land-use change in tropical rain forest margins in Indonesia

-       Prediction of climate change impacts on natural resources at local scales