Jens Hesselbjerg Christensen#
| Membership Number: | 6364 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | EARTH & COSMIC SCIENCES |
| Elected: | 2022 |
| Main Country of Residence: | DENMARK |
| Homepage(s): | https://nbi.ku.dk/ |
| ORCID: | 0000-0002-9908-8203 |
Present and Previous Positions
- Sep 2017 - present Principle Researcher [20%], NORCE Climate, Bergen, Norway
- Mar 2017 - present Professor, climate physics, Niels Bohr Institute, University of Copenhagen, Denmark
- Jan 2015 - Feb 2017 Lead Scientist (Forskningsleder), Regional Climate, Research and Development Dept.; the Danish Meteorological Institute, Copenhagen
- Jun 2014 - Feb 2017 Adjunct Professor in climate physics at the Niels Bohr Institute, University of Copenhagen, Denmark
- Nov 2009 - Oct 2015 Affiliated to Greenlandic Climate Research Centre; Nuuk, Greenland
- Oct 2009 - Apr 2015 Director, Centre for Regional change in the Earth System (CRES)
- Aug 2006 - Dec 2014 Research Leader (Forskningsleder), Danish Climate Centre; the Danish Meteorological Institute, Copenhagen
- Jan 2006 - Jul 2006 Acting Head of Programme, Danish Climate Centre; the Danish Meteorological Institute, Copenhagen
- Feb 1997 - Dec 2005 Senior Advisor at the Danish Climate Centre; the Danish Meteorological Institute, Copenhagen
- Jan 1995 - Jan 1997 Senior scientist at the Danish Meteorological Institute, Copenhagen
- Feb 1992 - Aug 1992 Visiting scientist at Meteo France, Toulouse
- Aug 1990 - Dec 1994 Research associate at the Danish Meteorological Institute, Copenhagen
- Jan 1987 - Jul 1990 Research scholarship at the Niels Bohr Institute, Copenhagen. (Externally financed by the Carlsberg Foundation). (PhD Dissertation, 1990)
Fields of Scholarship
- Regional climate and regional climate models
- Climate and atmospheric dynamics and climate modeling
- Communication and assesment of climate change to policymakers
Honours and Awards
- ERC-Synergy Grant 2014-2019 together with Dr Bo Vinther, NBI, University of Copenhagen; Prof Kerim Nisancioglu and Prof Eystein Jansen, University of Bergen, Norway
- Contributing to the award of the Nobel Peace Prize for 2007 to the IPCC
