Department of Reservoir Geology
Carbonates in Eastern Greenland and Denmark

M.Sc., University of Copenhagen, April 1982

Ph.D., University of Copenhagen, January 1986

D.Sc., University of Copenhagen, April 2001

1983 1985 Ph.D. stipend sponsored by the Danish Natural Science Research Council

1986 Project Researcher, Geological Survey of Denmark

1986–1992 Project Researcher, Geological Survey of Greenland

1993–2001 Senior Research Scientist Geological Survey of Greenland (from 1995 Geological Survey of Denmark and Greenland)

2002– Research Professor Geological Survey of Denmark and Greenland

1995–2003 External Lecture in geology, University of Roskilde

Member of the Danish Royal Academy of Science and Letters 2002

Committees

Board of the Geological Survey of Denmark and Greenland 1999–2000

Danish Natural Science Research Council 2000–

Life and Environmental Science Committee (LESC) under ESF 2001–

ESF Marine Board 2002–

NORDSIM evaluation committee 2002

ad hoc Working Group on Marine Research Infrastructure under ESFRI, 2002–3

Chairman for the board for AMS centre at University of Århus 2000–

Member of the board of the Ph.D. school SedBas

Co-chairman for Global Sedimentary Geology Programme project "Pangea"

Evaluation committee for European Space Science Committee under ESF 2003

Evaluations

Member of the Danish Natural Science Research Council (SNF) 2000

Reviewer for research councils in UK and Norway, and for ESF EuroCores Programme.

Member of the evaluation panel European Space Science Committee under ESF 2003.

Member of assessment committees for professorships and Ph.D. theses in Norway and Denmark.

External lecturer in geology at Roskilde University 1995–2003.

Ph.D. course in carbonate sedimentology, University of Bergen, 2003.

Several internal courses in Arctic geology and carbonate sedimentology and Greenland fieldtrips for Norwegian based oil companies.

External censor at the Universities of Copenhagen and Århus.

Supervisor for 7 M.Sc. students (5 completed) and 4 Ph.D. students (3 completed) at University of Copenhagen

Leader of a number of large research projects related to mapping and hydrocarbon exploration in East and North Greenland funded mainly by the oil industry, the Ministry of Environment and Energy (EFP-programme), the Danish Research Councils and the Carlsberg Foundation.

Expedition leader on several expeditions to Greenland, the largest with >20 participants.

Scientific coordinator of the IKU-project "Upper Paleozoic Geology in the Barents Sea and adjacent areas", 1990–1994 (sponsored by eight major, Norwegian-based oil companies). Responsible for "Resources in the sedimentary basins of North and East Greenland" – a joint project between GEUS and the Geological Institutes at the University of Copenhagen and the University of Århus sponsored by the Danish Research Councils TUPOLAR programme, 1995–1999 (external funding 11 million DKK).

Have participated in more than 20 expeditions to East and North Greenland since 1977, 4 expeditions to Svalbard and 2 to Arctic Russia.

Referee for Sedimentology, Journal Geol. Soc. London, Sedimentary Geology, Marine Geology, 3xPalaeo, Petroleum Geoscience, Lethaia, Polar Research, NGT, NPF Special Publication, Facies, Journal Petroleum Geology