Personlig profil

Aktuel forskning

Resource acquisition and utilization in aquatic plants
Plant-sediment interactions in seagrasses
Balance among autotrophic components
Plant influence on ecosystem elemental cycling

Teaching
Basic limnology
Aquatic ecology

CV

Curriculum vitae:

ORCID                                0000-0002-4861-6563

Date of birth                October 8 1953, Denmark

CONTACT                          +45 240342828; [email protected]

EDUCATION

1984                    PhD (Lic. Scient.), University of Copenhagen, Denmark (UCPH)

1980                    Master of Science, UCPH

SCIENTIFIC FOCUS AREAS

Main research areas are within ecophysiology and ecology of aquatic plants with emphasis on resource utilization, environmental requirements and growth dynamics of seagrasses and other submerged rooted macrophytes. Has published more than 100 papers of which more than 70 are published in peer reviewed international journals.

 

POSITIONS

2022-                   Emeritus Associate Professor, Dept. of Biology, UCPH, DK

1989-2022          Associate Professor, Dept. of Biology, UCPH, DK

1985-89              Assistant professor, Freshwater Biological Laboratory, UCPH, DK

1984-85              Marine biologist, Marine Pollution Laboratory, National Environmental Protection Agency.

1981-82              Ass. Biologist, Water Quality Institute ATV

 

ACADEMIC HONORS AND POSITIONS OF TRUST

Member of Miljø- og Fødevareklagenævn

Member of advisory group for the Danish Society for Nature Conservation

RESEARCH LEADERSHIP/MANAGEMENT

2014-20              Section Head of Freshwater Biology, Dept. of Biology, UCPH

2009-12              Member of Academic Counsil, Faculty of Science

1989-2005          Head of Freshwater Biological Laboratory

MAIN CURRENT FUNDING

None

SUPERVISION AND TEACHING

Supervised >25 MSc students and 5 PhD students.

PhD opponent/committee chairman (DK, Norway, Sweden)

Have taught: General Ecology, Freshwater Ecology, Experimental Ecology, Statistics and Field Courses

REVIEWER AND GRANT EVALUATION ACTIVITIES

Frequent reviewer for Plant Physiology, Limnology, Plant, Cell and Environment, Journal of Marine Biology and Ecology, Annals of Botany.

RECENT OUTREACH

2023      Chronicle about nutrients from agriculture in on-line medium, Altinget Mijø

2023      Chronicle on marine eutrophication in newspaper, Jyllandsposten

2022      Interview in television about mussel farming.

BIBLIOMETRICS (as of May, 2023)

>100 peer-reviewed papers (5 book chapters)

H-index: Google Scholar: 51

Citations: Google scholar: 9243

Published papers as first author: 23, as senior author: 19

 

 

 

Kort præsentation

Primære forskningsområder

Makroalger og undervandsplanter økofysiologi

Næringsstof- og kulstofdynamik

Gasdynamik i havgræsser

Effekter af klimaforandringer

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