Kurt H. Kjær – University of Copenhagen

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Kurt H. Kjær

Kurt H. Kjær

Professor, Science director

Natural History Museum of Denmark
Øster Voldgade 5-7
1350 København K

Office: Geologisk Museum
Phone: +45 353-22374
Phone (Reception desk): +45 353-22222
Mobile: +45 30589730
E-mail: kurtk@snm.ku.dk



Education/Academic Appointments

2008-present  Associate professor, Natural History Museum, University of Copenhagen

2004-2008       Associate research professor (Schou scholarship), Natural History Museum, University of Copenhagen

2004                Docent in Quaternary Science, Lund University

2001-2004     Senior research assistant (Post-doc.), Department of Geology, Lund

2000-2001    Assistant professor, Geological Museum, University of Copenhagen

2000             Ph.D. in Quaternary Geology, Geological Institute, University of Copenhagen

Publications (1998-present)

Peer reviewed articles: 44
Manuscripts submitted for peer review: 4 (status 28.02.2010)
Conference abstracts: 106
Popular science: 15

Track Record

KK hold a Ph.D. and docent-ship in Quaternary science with emphasis on glacial environments. This also involves advanced use of remote sensing techniques and digital photogrammetry associated with reconstruction of ice sheets and their interaction with climate and depositional processes-sediments and landforms. He is Danish steering committee representative and co-organizer of the international APEX programme under International Polar Year. KK has extensive field work experience from the last 16 years in Arctic areas (northern Russia, Svalbard, Greenland and Iceland) both as expedition leader and principal investigator. Selected services include:

  • Chief-editor for Danish Journal of Geology, 2008-present
  • Steering committee member of the APEX (Arctic Palaeoclimate and its EXtremes) IPY programme, 2005-present
  • Member of the board of directors for the Geological Society of Denmark, 2006-present
  • Secretary for Danish National Committee for Geology, IUGS, 2008-present
  • Advisory Board Member, Polar Research, 2007-present
  • KK have acted regularly as referee for some 16 international journals during the last nine years. Besides being external referee of research proposals for the NSF (US), the British NERC, the research council of Norway and the Swedish Geological Survey, European ERC, 2006-present.
  • Recent invited keynote presentations: EGU union session 2007; the 28th Nordic Geological Winter Meeting, 2007; the 33td International Geological Congress, 2008.

Research Supervision

Main (*) and co-supervisor for the following PhD students: Anders Schomacker*, finished september 2007 (Assessment of dead-ice processes under different climatic conditions: Iceland and Svalbard); Joachim Albrecht*, finished early 2004 (Deglaciation history in Northern Germany); Gert Pettersson, finished autumn 2002, (Late Pleistocene stratigraphy in Northern Poland); Mathias Lindén, finished February 2006 (Genesis of landforms in Norrbotten, Sweden) Ivar-Örn Benediktsson, finished 2010. Kristian K. Kjeldsen*(pending). Principal supervisor for Swedish and Danish MSc. theses in Lund/Copenhagen: Lina Sultan, finshed 2002; Lena Håkansson, finished 2003; Ivar-Örn Benediktsson, finished 2006; Niels J. Korsgaard (pending); Jakob Holm (pending), Mikkel Pedersen (pending); Anders A. Bjørk (pending); Peter Ilsøe (Pending).

Field Work outside scandinavia

Northern Russia: 6 sessions; Svalbard: 2 sessions; Iceland: 12 sessions; Greenland: 4 sessions.

Education

Msc, PhD