Curriculum Vitae - Per Jensen, Prof. Ph.D.

Date and place of birth:

23rd February 1956, Hjørring Denmark.

Citizenship:

Danish

Memberships of organizations:

• "Kemisk Forening" (Danish Chemical Society).
• "Magisterforeningen" (Denmark).
• American Physical Society.
• Deutsche Bunsengesellschaft.
• Arbeitsgemeinschaft Theoretische Chemie (Germany)

Committees and Appointments:

• Member, "International Faculty" of the Danish Research Academy, 1991- .
• Member, "International Advisory Committee" for the "Ohio State University International Symposium on Molecular Spectroscopy", held annually in Columbus, Ohio, U.S.A., 1994-1997.
• Chairman, "International Steering Committee" for the "International Conference on High Resolution Molecular Spectroscopy", held in two year intervals in Eastern or Central Europe, 1994-2006.
• Member, External Reviewing Committee for the Institute of Optoelectronics, German Aerospace Research Establishment, Oberpfaffenhofen, Germany, June 27-29, 1995.
• Coordinator of the EU Research Training Network SPHERS (Spectroscopy of Highly Excited Rovibrational States) 2000-2003.
• Member of the Editorial Board of the Journal of Molecular Spectroscopy, 2002-2009, 2013-2016.
• Member of the International Steering Committee for "HighRus-2003, The XIV Symposium on High Resolution Molecular Spectroscopy", held on a ship cruising on the river Yenisei, Russia, 6-11 July 2003.
• Member of the Advisory Committee for the "XXV International Colloquium on Group Theoretical Methods in Physics," Cocoyoc, Mexico, 2-6 August 2004.
• Coordinator of the EU Marie Curie Research Training Network QUASAAR (QUAntitative Spectroscopy for Atmospheric and Astrophysical Research), 2005-2009.
• Member of the Scientific Committee for "HighRus-2006, The XV Symposium on High Resolution Molecular Spectroscopy", held on a ship cruising on the river Volga, Russia, 18-21 July 2006.
• Ex officio member of the International Steering Committee (and co-chairman of the Local Organizing Committee for conferences held in Prague) for the "International Conference on High Resolution Molecular Spectroscopy", held in two year intervals in Eastern or Central Europe, 2006-.
• Guest editor of Journal of Molecular Spectroscopy Vol. 243, Issue 2 (June 2007); a special issue on PRAHA2006, the 19th International Conference on High Resolution Molecular Spectroscopy.
• Member of the Editorial Board of the Open Chemical Physics Journal, 2007-2014.
• Guest editor of Journal of Molecular Spectroscopy Vol. Volume 256, Issue 1, (July 2009); a special issue on PRAHA2008, the 20th International Conference on High Resolution Molecular Spectroscopy.
• "Adjoint Assistant Professor" at the University of Lethbridge, Alberta, Canada, July 2010.
• Member of the Scientific Committee for "HighRus-2009, The XVI Symposium on High Resolution Molecular Spectroscopy", held near Irkutsk on the shores of Lake Baikal, Russia, 5-10 July, 2009.
• Member of the International Advisory Committee for the conference series "International Workshops on Spectroscopic Signatures of Molecular Complexes/Ions in our Atmosphere and Beyond," held in February of even years in Varanasi, India, 2010-.
• Member of the Scientific Committee for "HighRus-2012, The XVII Symposium on High Resolution Molecular Spectroscopy", Zelenogorsk near St. Petersburg, Russia, 2-7 July, 2012.
• Member of the "Honorary Editorial Board" of "Reports in Theoretical Chemistry," 2011-
• Member, "International Peer Review College" of the Danish Council for Independent Research (DFF) / Natural Sciences, 2012-.
• Japan liaison officer (Japan-Beauftragter), University of Wuppertal, 2012-.
• Member of the Internationalization Committee (AG Internationales), University of Wuppertal, 2012-.
• ERASMUS-Representative for the Department of Chemistry, University of Wuppertal, 2012-.
• Member of the PROMOS Award Committee, University of Wuppertal, 2012-.
• Member of the "expert panels" for chemical sciences and physical sciences of the Research, Development and Innovation Council, an advisory body to the Government of the Czech Republic, 2014-.
• Member of the Scientific Committee for "HighRus-2015, The XVIII Symposium on High Resolution Molecular Spectroscopy", Tomsk, Russia, 29 June - 4 July, 2015.
• Member, editorial board, Russian Physics Journal, 2015-
• Member of the evaluation committee for the international project "Go Global Japan / Promotion of Global Human Resource Development," Ochanomizu University, Tokyo, Japan. "Final assessment meeting" at Ochanomizu University on 21 December, 2016.

Honours and Awards:

• NATO Science Fellowship held at Herzberg Institute of Astrophysics, National Research Council of Canada, Ottawa, September 1981-September 1982.
• Danish-Czechoslovak Exchange Fellowship held at the J. Heyrovský Institute of Physical Chemistry and Electrochemistry, Czechoslovak Academy of Sciences, Prague, November-December 1983.
• Alexander von Humboldt Fellowship held at Physical Chemistry Institute, Justus Liebig University Giessen, January 1984-October 1985.
• Senior Fellowship held at the Department of Chemistry, University of Aarhus, Denmark, October 1985-November 1986.
• Visiting scientist at the Herzberg Institute of Astrophysics, National Research Council of Canada, Ottawa, June 1989.
• Franz Vogt Prize (awarded by the Justus Liebig University Giessen, Germany), June 1992.
• Visiting scientist of the Chinese Academy of Science, May 1996.
• Visiting scientist of the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, October 1997.
• IBERDROLA visiting professor, Instituto de Estructura de la Materia, Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Cientificas, Madrid, Spain, March and June-July 1998.
• Special visiting professorship of the Japanese Ministry of Education, Science, and Culture held at Ibaraki University, Mito, Japan, October-December 2000.
• Visiting lecturer at East China Normal University, Shanghai, People's Republic of China, September-October 2001.
• Visiting lecturer of the Chemistry Research Promotion Center, National Science Council, Hsinchu and Taipei, Taiwan, December 2001.
• Visiting scientist at the Max Planck Institute of Astrophysics, Garching near Munich, Germany, 2-4 weeks per year, 1982-2001.
• Visiting scientist at the Steacie Institute for Molecular Sciences, National Research Council of Canada, Ottawa, June 1994, August 1997, February 1999, March 2000, February 2001, March 2002, March 2003, March 2005.
• Recipient of the Sir Harold Thompson Memorial Award 2002 together with Tina Erica Odaka (Wuppertal), W. P. Kraemer (Garching near Munich, Germany) T. Hirano (Tokyo, Japan), and P. R. Bunker (Ottawa, Canada), for the publication "The Renner Effect in Triatomic Molecules with Application to CH₂⁺, MgNC and NH₂", Spectrochimica Acta Part A 58, 763-794 (2002).
• Visiting professor at the Departamento de Quimica Fisica I, Facultad de Ciencias Quimicas, Universidad Complutense, Madrid, Spain, February-April 2006.
• Visiting scientist at the Institute for Organic Chemistry and Biochemistry, Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, Prague, February 2007.
• Visiting scientist at the Departamento de Fisica Aplicada, Facultad de Ciencias Experimentales, Universidad de Huelva, Huelva, Spain, March 2008.
• Ioannes Marcus Marci Medal of the Czech Spectroscopic Society, September 2008.
• Visiting lecturer at the Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Ochanomizu University, Tokyo, Japan, December 2008.
• Visiting scientist at the Centre for Theoretical Chemistry and Physics (CTCP), Massey University Auckland, New Zealand, December 2011.
• Equal Opportunities Prize 2013, University of Wuppertal.
• Visiting scientist at Groupe de Spectrométrie Moléculaire et Atmosphérique, Université de Reims, France, September-October 2018.
• "Weltlöwe" 2018 (World Lion, internationalization prize, University of Wuppertal)

Academic degrees:

• "Cand. scient." (corresponding to anglo-saxon M.Sc. degree), University of Aarhus, Denmark, February 1981.
• "Lic. scient." (corresponding to anglo-saxon Ph.D. degree), University of Aarhus, Denmark, November 1983.
• "Habilitation" (corresponding to anglo-saxon Dr.Sc. degree), Justus Liebig University Giessen, Germany, July 1992.

Employment:

• Junior Research Officer, Herzberg Institute of Astrophysics, National Research Council of Canada, Ottawa, October 1982 - June 1983.
• Assistant Research Officer, Herzberg Institute of Astrophysics, National Research Council of Canada, Ottawa, June 1983 - October 1983.
• "Wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter", Physical Chemistry Institute, Justus Liebig University Giessen, Germany, December 1986 - October 1990.
• "Wissenschaftlicher Assistent", Physical Chemistry Institute, Justus Liebig University Giessen, Germany, October 1990 - July 1994.
• Professor of theoretical spectroscopy, Bergische Universität Wuppertal, Germany, August 1994 - present.

Hirsch index:

43 (November 2017)