Jens K. Norskov#
| Membership Number: | 3068 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | CHEMICAL SCIENCES |
| Elected: | 2011 |
| Main Country of Residence: | DENMARK |
Present and Previous Positions
- 2014 Senior Fellow, Precourt Institute for Energy, Stanford University
- 2010 Leland T. Edwards Professor in the School of Engineering, Stanford University
- 2010 Professor, Departments of Chemical Engineering and Photon Science, Stanford University and SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory
- 2010 Director, SUNCAT Center for Interface Science and Catalysis, Stanford University and SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory
- 2010 - 2014 Co-director, Catalysis for Sustainable Energy Initiative, Technical University of Denmark
- 2009 - 2010 Director, Catalysis for Sustainable Energy Initiative, Technical University of Denmark
- 2006 - 2010 Director, The Lundbeck Foundation’s Center for Atomic-scale Materials Design (CAMD), Department of Physics, Technical University of Denmark (DTU)
- 2004 - 2009 Chair of NANO-DTU
- 2001 - 2008 Chair, Danish Center for Scientific Computing (DCSC)
- 1999 Visiting Professor, Department of Chemistry, University of California, Santa Barbara, CA, USA
- 1993 - 2003 Director, Center for Atomic-scale Materials Physics (CAMP), Department of Physics, DTU
- 1992 - 2010 Professor of theoretical physics, Department of Physics, DTU
- 1987 - 1992 Research Professor, Laboratory of Applied Physics, DTU
- 1982 - 1985 Assistant Professor, Nordita, (Nordic Institute for Theoretical Physics), Copenhagen
- 1981, 1985 - 1987 Scientific Staff, Haldor Topsøe A/S, Lyngby
- 1979 -1981 Post Doctoral Fellow, IBM T. J. Watson Research Center, Yorktown Heights, New York; Nordita (Nordic Institute for Theoretical Physics), Copenhagen; Århus University
Fields of Scholarship
- Sustainable energy and chemical processes
- Electronic structure theory
- Materials informatics
- Surface reactivity
- Heterogeneous catalysis
- Electro and photo catalysis
- Battery chemistry
- Enzyme function
Honours and Awards
- 2015 Rigmor og Carl Holst-Knudsen Award for Scientific Research, Aarhus University,
- 2015 Honorary Professor of the Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences,
- 2015 Irving Langmuir Prize in Chemical Physics, American Physical Society,
- 2014 Elected Foreign Member of the US National Academy of Engineering,
- 2013 Michel Boudart Award for the Advancement of Catalysis, North American Catalysis Society and the European Federation of Catalysis Societies,
- 2013 Hagemann Medal, Technical University of Denmark,
- 2012 Dr. Honoris Causa, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Trondheim, Norway,
- 2011 Giuseppe Parravano Memorial Award for Excellence in Catalysis Research, Michigan Catalysis Society,
- 2009 Alwin Mittasch Award, Germany,
- 2009 Gerhard Ertl Lecture Award, Berlin, Germany,
- 2009 Gabor A. Somorjai Award for Creative Research in Catalysis, American Chemical Society,
- 2009 Science of Hydrogen and Energy Award, Switzerland,
- 2007 Grundfos Prize, Copenhagen,
- 2007 Mulliken Medal, University of Chicago, Illinois, USA,
- 2006 Dr. Honoris Causa, Technical University of Eindhoven, The Netherlands,
- 2005 The Innovation Prize, DTU,
- 2003 Elected Fellow of the American Physical Society,
- 2003 Richard A. Glenn Award, American Chemical Society,
- 1996 Elected member of the Royal Danish Academy of Science and Letters,
- 1991 Villum Kann Rasmussen’s Award, Lyngby,
- 1990 Danish Physical Society's Prize of
- 1989 2 Samuel Friedman (Rescue) Award,
- 1987 Reinholdt W. Jorch's Award,
- 1987 Elected member of the Danish Academy of Engineering (ATV),
- 1987 Research professor by special appointment by the Danish Minister of Research and Education,
- 1979 ECOSS prize, Cambridge, UK
