Basic Curriculum Vitae
Personal data:
Full name: Johannes
Andersen
Born: August 29, 1943,
in Skive, Denmark.
Citizenship: Danish
Languages: Danish,
English, French, German; some Spanish, rudiments of Russian.
Home page: http://www.astro.ku.dk/~ja
Education:
Mag. scient. (astronomy), Copenhagen University (CU),
1969.
Dr. scient., CU, 1991: Accurate Physical Properties of Normal Stars: Determination and Applications.
Employment and long-term visits:
Research Fellowship at Copenhagen University Observatory (CUO), 1969-72.
Study and research visit, Observatoire de Marseille, France, 1970-71.
Study and research visit, Dominion Astrophysical Observatory, Canada, 1971-72.
Assistant Professor at CU, 1972-74; Associate
Professor 1974-.
Director of CUO, 1984-86 and 1992; Deputy Director
1978-82 and 1993-95.
Visiting Scientist, Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory, & Associate, Harvard College Observatory, 1986-9.
Chercheur Associé, Observatoire
de Paris - Meudon/CNRS, France, September-December 2000
Director, Nordic
Optical Telescope Scientific Association, 2002-2012.
Professional memberships:
International Astronomical Union, European Astronomical Society, Royal
Astronomical Society (UK), American Astronomical Society, Astronomical Society
of the Pacific, Danish Physical Society, Euroscience.
Professional distinctions:
Gold Medal, CU, 1969: Astrometric and Photometric Field Corrections of the Brorfelde Schmidt Telescope.
Minor planet (9300) “Johannes”.
Research community service:
Member, Board (Chair 2005-) and Executive Committee, ERA-NET
‘ASTRONET, 2005-2009.
Member, Board (Chair 2005), Executive Committee, and
Telescope Directors’ Forum, Integrated Infrastructure Initiative ‘OPTICON’,
2004-12.
Member, Scientific Advisory Board, Faculty of
Geosciences, Geography, & Astronomy, Univ. of Vienna, 2005-2009.
Member, Danish
Astronomy Committee, 2002 - (Chair 2005 -).
General Secretary, International
Astronomical Union (IAU) 1997-2000; Assistant General Secretary 1994-7;
member, Executive Committee 1994-2003.
Observer, United
Nations Committee on the Peaceful Uses of Outer Space (representing IAU),
1997-2003.
Member, Bureau, Committee
for Space Research (COSPAR), 1998-2002; of Council 1997-2000.
Member, Scientific-Technical Committee of the European Southern Observatory (ESO)
1993-97; Chair 1993-95.
Chair, Danish
Board for Astronomical Research (Astronomisk Udvalg, SNF), 1989-95; also
member 1978-85.
Scientific-technical project
responsibilities:
Project Scientist, 48-inch
Telescope Project, Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory, 1988-89.
Project responsible, Large-Format CCD Development Project, CUO, 1991-93.
Director, Ground
Based Astronomical Instrument Centre (IJAF), SNF (21 MDKK grant),
1996-2003.
Consultant to the LAMOST
Project, National Astronomical Observatory of China, 2003-.
Member, ESO Working
Group on Political Issues Connected with the Choice of Site for an ELT,
2006.
Current main areas of research:
Nucleosynthesis in the first stars in the galaxy,
using the ESO Very Large Telescope.
Chemical and dynamical evolution of the Galactic disk from studies of nearby F and G dwarf stars.
Ground-based studies of candidate host stars of transiting exoplanets discovered by the Kepler mission.
Publications, teaching:
344 papers to date, p.t. with ~6,500 citations.
Updated: March 9,
2009