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Advisory Board at Natural Sciences

The Faculty of Natural Sciences' Advisory Board advises the dean and the Dean's Office on strategy, visions and academic issues within the faculty's core areas:

  • Research
  • Collaboration
  • Degree programmes
  • Talent development

Among other things, the Advisory Board is concerned with the quality of research, the faculty's range and development of degree programmes, and initiatives in relation to talent development and collaboration with external partners.

The Advisory Board is composed of external members from Denmark and abroad representing key employers of faculty graduates and academic research and educational institutions. The Advisory Board meets once a year. The members receive no remuneration for participating.


Members of the Advisory Board:

  • Gunn Mangerud, Professor and Dean of the Faculty of Science and Technology, University of Bergen (NO)

  • Isabel Arends, Professor of Sustainable Organic Chemistry and Dean of the Faculty of Science, Utrecht University (NL)

  • Karin Hanghøj, Director, British Geological Survey, PhD in Geology, University of Copenhagen (UK/DK)

  • Robert Tampé, Professor of Biochemistry and Director, Institute of Biochemistry, Goethe University Frankfurt (DE)

  • Anders Malthe-Sørenssen, Professor, Center for Computing in Science Education, University of Oslo (NO)

  • Henrik Seiding, Managing Director, Technical and Environmental Services, Aarhus Municipality, MSc in Political Science (DK)

  • Allan Shaw, Corporate Vice President, Data & Knowledge Discovery, Novo Nordisk, PhD in Molecular Microbiology, Aarhus University (DK)

  • Martin Ingemann, Principal, Egå Gymnasium (Upper Secondary School), MA in Political Science and Danish, Aarhus University (DK)

  • Sune Dowler Nygaard, Executive Vice President, Danish Technological Institute, PhD in Chemistry, University of Southern Denmark (DK)

  • Sven Lidin, Professor, Lund University, President of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences (SE)

  • Angel Rubio, Managing Director, Center for Free-Electron Laser Science, Max Planck Institute for the Structure and Dynamics of Matter, Hamburg (DE)

  • Ana Rute Neves, Senior Director Science & Technology, Arla Innovation Centre, PhD, University of Lisbon (PT)

  • Jan Gulliksen, Professor of Human-Computer Interaction and Vice President for Digitalization, KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm (SE)