Education
Mag.Scient. (M.Sc) in Chemistry, University of Copenhagen,
1964
Dr.Scient, (D.Sc.), University of Copenhagen,
1981
Employments
National service, Nov. 1964-Jan. 1966
Assistant prof., Chem. Dept. A, DTU, 1966 and 1968-72.
Associate prof. 1972-84
Professor of Inorganic Chemistry DTU, from
1984
British
Council Scholar, Univ. of Oxford, England, 1966-68. Visiting
Scientist, Inst. of Electrochem., Russian Acad, Sci., 1971, and
1975-78, fifteen months,, Fritz-Haber-Inst. der
Max-Planck-Gesells., Berlin, 1975-76, Dept.
of Physics, Utah State Univ., (1987, four months). Visiting
Professor, School of Chemistry , Univ.
of Sydney , 2003, three months
Overseas member Faraday Council, London, 1982-85. Adv.
Boards of journals, presently
Bioelectrochemistry (2001-) and Langmuir (2008-). Chairman of
conferences, including ESF Workshop, "Bioelectrochemistry",
Copenhagen, 1996 and EUROBIC-6, Lund and Copenhagen , 2002. Nat.
Secr., ISE, 1990-1996. Vice-chairman Section 1,
1998-2004
Nobel Committee reports 1990-91 and 1992
CChem FRSC (Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry),
London 1986
Member of the Academy of Technical Sciences, Denmark ,
1991
Member of the Royal Danish Academy of Sciences and
Letters, 1992
The Carlsberg Prize for Chemistry, 2003
The Katsumi Niki Prize for Bioelectrochemistry of the ISE,
2004, 1st time awarded
Elected Fellow of the International Society of
Electrochemistry (ISE) 2006
Julius Thomsen Medal, DTU for Meritorious Achievements in
Chemical Engineering, 2007.
Honorary professor, Shandong University, China,
2013.