Niels Christian Nielsen

Research areas

• Chemistry > NMR spectroscopy
• Chemistry > Chemistry of soft materials
• Molecular Biology and Biotechnology > Membrane proteins
• Nanotechnology and Nanoscience > Metabonomics

Education

• 1987 - M. Sc. in Chemistry and Physics. Aarhus University.
• 1990 - Ph.D. in Chemistry. Aarhus University

Affiliations

• 1988 - Visiting scientist Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Cambridge, Massachusetts, U.S.A.
• 1990-1994 - Assistant Professor, Dept. of Chemistry, Aarhus University.
• 1994-1999 - Associate Professor, Dept. of Chemistry, Aarhus University.
• 1999-2004 - Professor. Department of Molecular and Structural Biology, Aarhus University.
• 2004 - Professor. Department of Chemistry, Aarhus University.
• 2009 - Kavli Institute of Theoretical Physics, Santa Barbara, USA.

Awards

• 2000 - Fellow of the Danish Natural Science Academy (DNA)
• 2002 - fellow of The Royal Danish Academy of Sciences and Letters.
• 2003 - Fellow of The Danish Academy of Technical Sciences (ATV)
• 2004 - Bjerrum Chemistry Prize
• 2004 - Bjerrum-Brøndsted-Lang lecture
• 2006 - Director Ib Henriksen’s Research Prize 2006
• 2007 - Danisco Award 2007
• 2009 - Knighted by the Queen of Denmark

Leadership

• 1999-2004 - Head of Laboratory for Biomolecular NMR Spectroscopy, Department of Molecular and Structural Biology, Aarhus University.
• 1999-2004 - Head of solid-state NMR in the Danish Biotechnological Instrument Centre (DABIC).
• 2001 - Advisor for Environmental Molecular Biology Laboratory, Pacific Northwest Laboratory, Richland, WA, USA.
• 2002-2006 - Vice-director of Interdisciplinary Nanoscience Center (iNANO), Aarhus University
• 2002-2006 - Vice-director of the iNANO graduate school (iNANOschool), Aarhus University
• 2004-2013 - Head of Laboratory for Biomolecular NMR Spectroscopy, Department of Chemistry, Aarhus University
• 2006-2011 - Member of Directing Board of Interdisciplinary Nanoscience Center (iNANO), Aarhus University
• 2005-2013 - Director of Center for Studies of Insoluble Proteins (inSPIN), granted by “Danmarks Grundforskningsfond”
• 2010-2013 - Head of the danish ESFRI INSTRUCT activity
• 2012-2013 - Director of Interdisciplinary Nanoscience Center (iNANO), Aarhus University
• 2013 - 2019 Dean of the Faculty of Science and Technology, Aarhus University
• 2019 - Professor, CTO NanoNord A/S