Karsten Flensberg
  • Universitetsparken 5, bygn. D

    2100 København Ø

Personal profile

CV

  • 1987 - 1989  Ph.D. student. Technical University scholarship.
  • 1989 - 1991  Post-doc at the Univ of Tennessee and ORNL.
  • 1991 - 1993  Post-doc at Nordita.
  • 1993 - 1995  Carlsberg Fellow at the MIC, DTU.
  • 1995 - 1998  Staff scientist at Danish Fundamental Metrology.
  • 1999 - 2012  Associate Professor at The Niels Bohr Institute.
  • 2002 - 2003  Visiting Professor at Cornell University.
  • 2011 - 2012  Visiting Professor at Harvard University.
  • 2012 -          Professor at The Niels Bohr Institute.
  • 2019 - 2019  Mercator Fellow, German Physical Society
  • 2019 -           Center Direction of DNRF center of excellence QDev
  • 2020 -           PI of ERC synergy grant

Short presentation

Professor of theoretical condensed matter physics. Karsten Flensberg is currently the director of the Center of Quantum Devices (QDev). His research focuses on quantum effect in electron transport in condensed matter devices and in quantum information processing systems. In recent years, the main subject has been topological superconductors, superconductor-semiconductor hybrids, and Majorana bound states. 

He is part of the condensed matter theory group (CMT) at NBI.

Keywords

  • Faculty of Science
  • Mesoscopic physics, quantum transport theory, molecular electronics, spintronics, and physics of quantum information.

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