Membership of committees etc:

• Chairman for the National Committee for Crystallography (1998 - 2007)
• Member of the ‘Forschungsbeirat Synchrotronstrahlung’ HASYLAB, DESY(1995 - 1998)
• Member of the Program Advisory Committee at MAXLAB, Lund, Sweden (1998 - 2010)
• Director of DANSYNC from 2004 (called DANSCATT from 2008 and onwards)
• Member of the program commitee for the IUCr congress in Glasgow August 1999
• Co-organizer of several meetings and summerschool, e.g. International Conference on Solid Films and Surfaces ICSFS-9, Copenhagen 1998, and the Nordic Summerschool on Synchrotron Radiation 1997, 2001, 2004, 2009.
• Chairman of the sub-committee for technological foresight of nano materials 2004
• Vice Chairman of the Gordon Conference on X-rays Physics in 2003, chairman for the conference in 2005
• Member of the Academic Council of the Faculty of Science, CopenhagenUniversity (2006-2009)
• Chairman of the PhD Committee at the Faculty of Sciences, CopenhagenUniversity (2007-)
• Member of the International Steering Committee of the European XFEL
• Chairman of the Physics Committee in the evalution of LundUniversity June 2008
• Member of the German BMBF (Bundesminsterium für Bildung unf Forschung) committee for large infra structure.
• Chairman of the Council of European Synchrotron Radiatian Facility (yearly budget ~90 Mio €, 600 employes) from 2006-2010, Vicechairman 2002-2005
• Member of the Program Committee for the LCLS in Stanford (2010-2012)
• Chairman of the European XFEL Council (2010-). Construction budget ~1100 mio €.

Publications:

• About 140 publications within surface and interface science in international, refereed journals resulting in about 3940 citations as of July 2012, h-index 31.
• 1 patent application, was not continued
• 3-4 invited talks yearly at conferences, summerschools or research institutions (not during my time as Head of Department at Risø)

Educational activities:

• Have been supervising about 21 master students and 15 Ph.D. students.
• Currently supervising 6 Ph.D. students and 8 master students.
• Responsible for the courses Introduction to Solid State Physics, Experimental X-ray Physics and Structural Tools in NanoScience, all 7.5 ECTS courses.