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Thomas
Bjørnholm
Director, Nano-Science Center, University of Copenhagen Denmark |
Professor Thomas Bjørnholm (b. 1960), Director of Nano-Science Center at the University of Copenhagen since 2001, obtained his Ph.D. in materials chemistry in 1990. In 1992 he became affiliated with the Chemistry Department at the University of Copenhagen as Associate Professor, in 2000 as Research Professor and in 2005 as full Professor. In 1997 he was a visiting professor at the University of Texas at Austin and since 2003 he has been the chairman of the Copenhagen Graduate School for Nanoscience and Nanotecnology. Thomas Bjørnholms main research interest lie within the area of organic electronics, single molecule science, nanochemistry and bionantechnology and he has published more than 140 papers in scientific journals and books including several contributions to high impact journals as Science and Nature, and given more than 150 invited talks at conferences and research institutions. Thomas Bjørnholm is elected member of the Danish Natural Science Academy, the Danish Academy of Technical Sciences, the Royal Danish Academy of Science and Letters, the Danish Natural Science Research Council, the Danish Technology Board, and he has received several research awards including the Ole Rømer Fond Prize, the Ellen & Niels Bjerrum Prize and gold medal for research in organic thin films, and the Direktør Ib Henriksen Prize.