Education
- Lic. Scient (Danish Ph.D. before 1990) 1987
- Cand. Scient in physics 1980
- Bachelor degree in physics and chemistry 1976
Positions
- Dean of the SCIENCE faculty since 2012
- Head of the Niels Bohr Institut 2005 - 2012
- Professor at the University of Copenhagen - NBI since 2005
- Professor MSO at the University of Copenhagen - NBIfAFG 2002 - 2005
- Associate Professor at the University of Copenhagen - NBIfAFG 1995 - 2002
- CERN Scientific Associate 1992 - 1993
- CERN corresponding fellow 1987 - 1989
- Research fellow under the Danish CERN committee 1986 - 1994
- CERN research staff 1983 - 1986
- CERN research fellow 1980 – 1983
Professional activities as a High Energy Physicist
- Leader of the Danish Center for CERN Experiments – ICE 2004 - 2007
- NorduGRID spokesman 2001 - 2004(NorduGRID is a collaboration of 11 Nordic institutions)
- Nordic representative in the ECFA committee onthe future of European High Energy Physics 2000 - 2001
- Danish delegate to the Global Science Forum consultative groupon the Future of High Energy Physics 2000 -Convener for integration and design of theATLAS Second Level Trigger, convening 20 institutes 1998 - 2000
- Chairman of the ATLAS Trigger and Data acquisitionInstitutes Board (52 institutes are represented at the board) 1997 - 1998
- Responsible for the Danish contribution to the ATLAS experiment 1997 - 2007
- Project coordinator for the ATLAS Second Level Triggerdemonstrator program, convening 16 institutes 1996 - 1998
- Member of Detector Research and Development Committee at CERN 1993 - 1995
- Danish delegate to the European Council for Future Accelerators 1991 - 2006
- Work group convener and member of advisory panel to the CERN
- Director General in the matters of triggering and data acquisition 1986 – 1987
As a scientist in general
- Member of the ERC panel PE2 since 2007, chair from 2012
- Danish delegate to ESFRI 2003 - 2008
- Danish delegate to the FP7 Research Infrastructures committee 2006 - 2013
- Danish delegate to the FP6 Research Infrastructures committee 2003 - 2006
- Member of Danish Center for Scientific Computing executive board
followed by Danish eInfrastructure Coorporation (DeIC) since 2003 - Vice Director of NBIfAFG 2004 - 2005
- Chairman of the Danish Natural Science Research Council(member from 1999) 2001-2005
- Member of the Danish ESA committee 1999 - 2001
- Chairman of the Teaching Administration Board at NBIfAG 1997 - 1999
- Elected member of the Royal Danish Academy of Sciences and Letters 2004
- Awarded the Ole Romer price 1984
- Approximately 600 publications in international refereed journals
Elected member of the Royal Academy of Sciences and Letters in 2003