Dorthe Dahl-Jensen

The DNRF is very important to Denmark, and I am incredibly proud that we have a foundation that focuses directly on basic research.

As chairman, I will work to ensure that we continue to act as an independent foundation and continue to support the establishment of new basic research centers. We have many private foundations that give a lot of money to research, and that is a blessing, but it also means that we must make sure that we place our instruments correctly, so that we, together with the other actors, cover a wide range of the Danish research landscape.

My major scientific achievements have been in leading ice core drilling and subsequent analysis of ice core data in conjunction with models to determine past climate and how it affected the Greenland ice sheet. I have led several international deep drilling projects such as NGRIP, NEEM and EGRIP. The research is very well cited, and I and five others from my research group are Thomson Reuters highly cited researchers.

Name (born) Dorthe Dahl-Jensen (1958)
Current position Canada Excellence Research Chair at University of Manitoba, Canada
Professor at Niels Bohr Institute, University of Copenhagen
Elected period January 1, 2024 – December 31, 2027 (first period)
Appointed by Ministry of Higher Education and Science
Independence Considered independent
Expertise Geoscience
Education Ph.D.
Selected board and committee appointments Member of GRISO Science Advisory Board, Board member for Canada’s Arctic Science Net, Member of Academea Europea

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