Bo Brummerstedt Iversen is Professor of chemistry at Aarhus University (AU). He obtained his PhD degree from AU in 1995, and following a post doc period at University of California in Santa Barbara he eventually became Full Professor at AU in 2004. He is the only Danish scientists holding both a Doctor of Science degree (AU, 2002) and a Doctor of Technology degree (DTU, 2010).
He is PI on the DanMAX and SINCRYS beamline projects at MAX4, and his institutional responsibilities have included General Secretary and Treasurer of the International Union of Crystallography, member of the Scientific Advisory Council of ESS and Board member of MAX IV. He was elected Fellow of the Royal Danish Academy of Science and Letters in 2010, and awards include the Queen Margrethe II Science Prize, the Danish Elite Researcher Award, the Grundfos Prize and the AU Science Prize. He was Knighted by Queen Margrethe II of Denmark in 2015.
Prof. Iversen has been single responsible supervisor for 72 post doc, 67 PhD degrees, 111 MSc degrees, and 101 BSc degrees. He has published ~600 peer review papers. Since 2000 he has been lecturer and course responsible for first semester General Chemistry and third semester Materials Chemistry.
