41 Notable alumni of
Technical University of Denmark
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The Technical University of Denmark is 1450th in the world, 498th in Europe, and 8th in Denmark by aggregated alumni prominence. Below is the list of 41 notable alumni from the Technical University of Denmark sorted by their wiki pages popularity. The directory includes famous graduates and former students along with research and academic staff. 1 individual affiliated with the Technical University of Denmark won Nobel Prizes in Physiology or Medicine.
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Anders Hejlsberg
- Occupations
- computer scientistsystems architectprogrammer
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Anders Hejlsberg is a Danish software engineer who co-designed several programming languages and development tools. He was the original author of Turbo Pascal and the chief architect of Delphi. He currently works for Microsoft as the lead architect of C# and core developer on TypeScript.
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Piet Hein
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- writerpoetphysicistinventormathematician
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Piet Hein was a Danish polymath (mathematician, inventor, designer, writer and poet), often writing under the Old Norse pseudonym Kumbel, meaning "tombstone". His short poems, known as gruks or grooks (Danish: gruk), first started to appear in the daily newspaper Politiken shortly after the German occupation of Denmark in April 1940 under the pseudonym "Kumbel Kumbell". He also invented the Soma cube and the board game Hex.
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Jakob Nielsen
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- web developercomputer scientistuniversity teacherbusinessperson
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Jakob Nielsen is a Danish web usability consultant, human–computer interaction researcher, and co-founder of Nielsen Norman Group. He was named the “guru of Web page usability” in 1998 by The New York Times and the “king of usability” by Internet Magazine.
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Ove Arup
- Enrolled in the Technical University of Denmark
- Studied in 1918
- Occupations
- structural engineerengineerarchitectentrepreneur
- Biography
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Sir Ove Nyquist Arup, CBE, MICE, MIStructE, FCIOB was an English engineer who founded Arup Group Limited, a multinational corporation that offers engineering, design, planning, project management, and consulting services for building systems. Ove Arup is considered to be among the foremost architectural structural engineers of his time.
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Poul Henningsen
- Enrolled in the Technical University of Denmark
- Studied in 1914
- Occupations
- screenwriterarchitectautobiographerjournalistfilm director
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Poul Henningsen was a Danish author, critic, architect, and designer. In Denmark, where he often is referred to simply as PH, he was one of the leading figures of the cultural life of Denmark between the World Wars.
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Morten P. Meldal
- Enrolled in the Technical University of Denmark
- 1979-1982 graduated with Doctor of Philosophy
- Occupations
- biochemistresearcherchemist
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Morten Peter Meldal is a Danish chemist and Nobel laureate. He is a professor of chemistry at the University of Copenhagen in Copenhagen, Denmark. He is best known for developing the CuAAC-click reaction, concurrently with but independent of Valery V. Fokin and K. Barry Sharpless.
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Henrik Svensmark
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- climatologistphysicistnuclear physicistuniversity teacher
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Henrik Svensmark is a physicist and professor in the Division of Solar System Physics at the Danish National Space Institute (DTU Space) in Copenhagen. He is known for his work on the hypothesis that fewer cosmic rays are an indirect cause of global warming via cloud formation.
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Henrik Dam
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- university teacherpedagoguechemistphysicianphysiologist
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Carl Peter Henrik Dam was a Danish biochemist and physiologist.
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Ludvig Lorenz
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- mathematicianphysicist
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Ludvig Valentin Lorenz was a Danish physicist and mathematician. He developed mathematical formulae to describe phenomena such as the relation between the refraction of light and the density of a pure transparent substance, and the relation between a metal's electrical and thermal conductivity and temperature (Wiedemann–Franz–Lorenz law).
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Lone Dybkjær
- Enrolled in the Technical University of Denmark
- Graduated with Master of Engineering
- Occupations
- university teachernon-fiction writerpolitician
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Lone Dybkjær was a Danish politician. She served three non-consecutive terms as a member of the Folketing.
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Haldor Topsøe
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- 1913-2013 (aged 100)
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- businesspersonchemical engineerengineer
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Haldor Frederik Axel Topsøe was a Danish engineer and founder and chairman of the catalysis company Haldor Topsøe. He was grandson of the chemist and crystallographer Haldor Topsøe (1842–1935), after whom he is named.
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Johan Jensen
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- engineermathematician
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Johan Ludwig William Valdemar Jensen, mostly known as Johan Jensen, was a Danish mathematician and engineer. He was the president of the Danish Mathematical Society from 1892 to 1903.
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Per Brinch Hansen
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- computer scientistuniversity teacherengineer
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Per Brinch Hansen was a Danish-American computer scientist known for his work in operating systems, concurrent programming and parallel and distributed computing.
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Jytte Hilden
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- politician
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Jytte Hilden is a Danish chemical engineer and politician (Social Democrats). She was elected member of the Folketing from 1979 to 1998, and was appointed Minister for Culture in Poul Nyrup Rasmussen's first Cabinet.
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Julius Petersen
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- university teachermathematician
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Julius Peter Christian Petersen was a Danish mathematician. His contributions to the field of mathematics led to the birth of graph theory.
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Peder Vilhelm Jensen-Klint
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- painterdesignerarchitect
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Peder Vilhelm Jensen-Klint was a Danish architect, designer, painter and architectural theorist, best known for designing Grundtvig's Church in Copenhagen, generally considered to be one of the most important Danish architectural works of the time. Its Expressionist style relies heavily on Scandinavian brick Gothic traditions.
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Danny Lange
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- engineercomputer scientist
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Danny B. Lange is a Danish computer scientist who has worked on machine learning for IBM, Microsoft, Amazon Web Services, Uber, and Unity Technologies.
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Hans Peter Jørgen Julius Thomsen
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- chemistuniversity teacherbusinessperson
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Hans Peter Jørgen Julius Thomsen was a Danish chemist noted in thermochemistry for the Thomsen–Berthelot principle.
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Artūrs Toms Plešs
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- politician
- Biography
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Artūrs Toms Plešs is a Latvian politician. As of 17 December 2020, he serves as Minister for Environmental Protection and Regional Development in the cabinet of Prime Minister Arturs Krišjānis Kariņš.
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Jens Nielsen
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- engineerbiologistuniversity teachermolecular biologist
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Jens Nielsen is the CEO of BioInnovation Institute, Copenhagen, Denmark, and professor of systems biology at Chalmers University of Technology, Gothenburg, Sweden. He is also an adjunct professor at the Technical University of Denmark. Nielsen is the most cited researcher in the field of metabolic engineering, and he is the founding president of the International Metabolic Engineering Society. He has additionally founded several biotech companies.
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Søren Brunak
- Years
- 1958-.. (age 66)
- Enrolled in the Technical University of Denmark
- Studied in 1991
- Occupations
- university teacherinformation scientistbioinformatician
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Søren Brunak is a Danish biological and physical scientist working in bioinformatics, systems biology, and medical informatics. He is a professor of Disease Systems Biology at the University of Copenhagen and professor of bioinformatics at the Technical University of Denmark. As Research Director at the Novo Nordisk Foundation Center for Protein Research at the University of Copenhagen Medical School, he leads a research effort where molecular-level systems biology data are combined with phenotypic data from the healthcare sector, such as electronic patient records, registry information, and biobank questionnaires. A major aim is to understand the network biology basis for time-ordered comorbidities and discriminate between treatment-related disease correlations and other comorbidities in disease trajectories. Søren Brunak also holds a position as a Medical Informatics Officer at Rigshospitalet, the Capital Region of Denmark.
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Jakob Stoustrup
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- scientistengineer
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Jakob Stoustrup is a Danish researcher employed at Aalborg University, where he serves as professor of control theory at the Department of Electronic Systems.
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Dines Bjørner
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- engineercomputer scientist
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Professor Dines Bjørner is a Danish computer scientist.
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Sven Erik Jørgensen
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- chemistuniversity teacherecologist
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Sven Erik Jørgensen was an ecologist and chemist from Denmark.
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Gustav Adolph Hagemann
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- chemistlocal politician
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Gustav Adolph Hagemann was a Danish engineer and businessman. He was chief technical officer of the Danish Sugar Factories from 1872 to 1897 and then served as chairman of the board until 1916. He owned several sugar plantations on Saint Croix in the Danish West Indies.
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Lone Simonsen
- Enrolled in the Technical University of Denmark
- In 1992 graduated with postdoctoral research in microbiology
- Occupations
- epidemiologist
- Biography
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Lone Simonsen is a Danish epidemiologist and professor of population health sciences. Since the beginning of 2020, she has been the director of PandemiX, an interdisciplinary pandemic research center at Roskilde University. In 2023 PandemiX was established as a Center of Excellence funded by the Danish National Research Foundation.
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Alexandra Boltasseva
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- researchercomputer scientistengineer
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Alexandra Boltasseva is Ron And Dotty Garvin Tonjes Distinguished Professor of electrical and computer engineering at Purdue University, and editor-in-chief for The Optical Society's Optical Materials Express journal. Her research focuses on plasmonic metamaterials, manmade composites of metals that use surface plasmons to achieve optical properties not seen in nature.
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Asger Ostenfeld
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- physicistengineercivil engineer
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Asger Skovgaard Ostenfeld was a Danish civil engineer who specialized in the theory of steel and reinforced concrete structures. He is now considered to be the founding father of the theory of structures in Denmark.
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Axel Berg
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- architect
- Biography
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Emil Axel Berg was a Danish architect. He received the Neuhausen Prize, C. F. Hansen Medal, and Eckersberg Medal, and was honored as a Knight of Order of the Dannebrog.
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Lauritz Peter Holmblad
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- judgemerchant
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Lauritz Peter Holmblad, often referred to as L. P. Holmblad, was a Danish industrialist and philanthropist. His company, which was simply known as L. P. Holmblad, had activities in dyes, soap, glue and playing cards. Holmblad was also part of the circle around Carl Frederik Tietgen, co-founding several of his companies.
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Harald Ludvig Westergaard
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- bankerstatisticianeconomist
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Harald Ludvig Westergaard was a Danish statistician and economist known for his work in demography and the history of statistics.
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Torben Larsen
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- hydrologistengineerprofessor
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Torben Larsen is a noted Danish scientist working in the field of hydrology and water pollution.
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Steen Rasmussen
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- physicist
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Steen Rasmussen is a Danish physicist mainly working in the areas of artificial life and complex systems. He is currently a professor in physics and a center director at University of Southern Denmark as well as an external research professor at the Santa Fe Institute. His formal training was at the Technical University of Denmark (1985 PhD in physics of complex systems) and University of Copenhagen (philosophy). He spent 20 years as a researcher at Los Alamos National Laboratory (1988-2007) the last five years as a leader of the Self-Organized Systems team. He has been part of the Santa Fe Institute since 1988.
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Jan S. Hesthaven
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- 1965-.. (age 59)
- Occupations
- mathematician
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Jan S. Hesthaven is a Danish mathematician, currently Vice President for Academic Affairs at EPFL. He is Professor of Mathematics, holds the Chair of Computational Mathematics and Simulation Science (MCSS), and was appointed Vice President for Academic Affairs at EPFL (starting in 2021). He is particularly known for contributions to the development, analysis and application of high-order accurate computational methods for time-dependent partial differential equations. He has also contributed substantially to the development of reduced order models and the application of neural networks and machine learning techniques to problems in science and engineering.
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Johannes Emil Gnudtzmann
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- architect
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Johannes Emil Gnudtzmann was a Danish architect working in the Historicist style. His most notable works are St. Paul's Church and the extension of the Royal Veterinary and Agricultural University's main building, both in Copenhagen. He was the father of Kaj Gnudtzmann.
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Lisbeth Olsson
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- microbiologist
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Lisbeth Olsson is a Swedish microbiologist and a Professor in industrial biotechnology at Chalmers University of Technology in Gothenburg.
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Anders P. Ravn
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- programmercomputer scientist
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Anders Peter Ravn was a Danish computer scientist.
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Leif Bjørnø
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- acoustician
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Leif Bjørnø was born on 30 March 1937 in Svendborg, Denmark. Son of Svend Aage Valdemar and Elna Marie Jensen. Leif Bjørnø, professor and well known acoustician. Named Knight of the Order of Dannebrog, Her Majesty the Queen of Denmark 1991, recipient Gold medal Society Francaise d'Acoustique, 1995, Lord Rayleigh's Gold medal, London, 1997, The Hartmann Prize, Copenhagen, 1999, Fellow of the Acoustical Society of America, a Life Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers.
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Kirsten Gram-Hanssen
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- researcher
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Kirsten Gram-Hanssen is a Danish professor at Department of the Build Environment of Aalborg University in Copenhagen. She graduated Master from Department of Social Science at the Technical University of Denmark (DTU) in 1991 and in 1996 she was awarded a Ph.d.
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Lars Gunnarsen
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- professorresearcher
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Lars Gunnarsen is a Danish professor in construction at Aalborg University where he conducts research in indoor climate and ventilation.
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Peter Kristian Prytz
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- 1851-1929 (aged 78)
- Occupations
- docentphysicist
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Peter Kristian Prytz was a Danish physicist. He was a professor at the Technical University of Denmark from 1894 to 1921.
