Departments

 

DTU Aqua National Institute of Aquatic Resources

Sustainable exploitation of living aquatic resources • Management of fisheries • Assessing and forecasting fish stocks • Structure and function of marine ecosystems • Aquaculture, rearing methods and environmental effects • Fish release and restoration of habitats • Providing scientific advice to the Ministry of Food, Agriculture and Fisheries and other public authorities       Fritz Köster, Director · Tel: +45 21 36 28 05

 

 

DTU Chemical Engineering Department of Chemical and Biochemical Engineering

Chemical and biochemical process technology • Mathematical modelling and analysis • Separation processes • Applied thermodynamics • Chemical reaction engineering • Catalysis and biocatalysis • Combustion • Pollution abatement • Process design, simulation and control • Environmental technology • Polymer engineering and science • Oil and gas technology • Chemical and biochemical product design • Biosystems                                                                                                                Kim Dam-Johansen, Head of department   · Tel: +45 45 25 28 45

 

DTU Chemistry Department of Chemistry
Analytical chemistry • Bioinorganic chemistry • Nanoscale chemistry • Physical and biophysical chemistry • Materials and molten salt chemistry • Fuel cells • Organic chemistry • Structural chemistry • Catalysis • Sustainable and green chemistry                                                                                                 Erling Stenby, Head of department   · Tel: +45 45 25 28 75

  

  

  

DTU Civil Engineering Department of Civil Engineering
Building design • Structures in concrete, steel, glass and tiles • Construction materials • Geotechnical engineering and geology • Fire technology • Building installations, physics, and energy • solar heating • Urban management • Construc- tion processes and management • Facilities management • Arctic technology         Michael Havbro Faber, Head of department   · Tel: +45 45 25 17 47

  

DTU Electrical Engineering Department of Electrical Engineering
Acoustic technology • Automation • Electronics and electromagnetic systems • Electric power engineering • Biomedical engineeringik • Playware • Intelligent Energy Systems                                                                                                   Kristian E. Stubkjær, Head of department       · Tel: +45 45 25 36 54

  

 

DTU Energy Conversion Department of Energy Conversion and Storage
Fuel cells and solid state chemistry • Solar energy, batteries and carbon chemical energy storage • Superconductivity and magnetism           Søren Linderoth, Head of department  · Tel: + 45 46 77 58 01

 

DTU Environment Department of Environmental Engineering

Water resources • Soil and groundwater pollution • Environmental technology • Environmental microbiology • Ecotoxicology • Environmental chemistry • Energy and mineral resources • Hydrodynamics • Development and sustainability • Bioenergy • Technology and environmental studies • Microbial ecology                                                                                                                                          Thomas Højlund Christensen, Head of department   · Tel: +45 45 25 16 03

  

  

DTU Food National Food Institute

Research on microbiological and chemical food safety, human nutrition and environment and health • Risk assessment and consultancy for public authorities and businesses • Surveillance and diagnosis • Education and training • National and international reference laboratory for the EU and WHO • National food safety preparedness                                                                                                Jørgen Schlundt, Head of department   · Tlf. 35 88 77 03

 

DTU Fotonik Department of Photonics Engineering

Communication technology • Image, line coding, modulation • networks and theory of telecommunication traffic • Systems and optical communication • optical signal processing and nonlinear optics • optical waveguides, fibers, special fibers •  fiber lasers • nanophotonics, optical characterization, quan-tum optics • biomedical and industrial application of optics • Optical sensors and sensor systems                               Lars Ulrik Aaen Andersen, Head of department · Tel: +45 45 25 38 09

 

DTU Informatics Department of Informatics and Mathematical Modelling

Scientific computing • Mathematical statistics • Computer graphics and image analysis • Intelligent signal processing • Operations research • Embedded software and hardware systems • Safe and secure IT systems • Software engineering • Algorithms, logic and knowledgebased systems • Services and networks • Information systems • Market and policy                                     Helle Rootzén, Head of department                                 · Tel: +45 45 25 33 70

 

DTU Management Engineering Department of Management Engineering
Systems Analysis • Technology and development of materials • Micro- and nanoproduction and process development • Productions and business management • Innovation and sustainability                                                                                                 Søren Salomo, Head of department    · Tel: +45 45 25 61 10

  

 

DTU Mathematics  Department of Mathematics
Geometry · Dynamical systems · Coding theory · Cryptology · Topology optimization · Applied functional analysis · Computer-assisted learning · Research dissemination and didactics · MATEMATIC UM, the mathematical inspiratorium                                                                                                Michael Pedersen, Head of department    · Tel: +45 45 25 30 45

  

 

 

DTU Mechanical Engineering Department of Mechanical Engineering
Solid mechanics • Fluid mechanics • Energy systems • Energy conversion • Indoor climate • Engineering design • Product development • Maritime structures • Hydraulic engineering                                                                                                   Henrik Carlsen, Head of department   · Tel: +45 45 25 41 71

    

DTU Nanotech Department of Micro- and Nanotechnology
Microelectromechanical systems • Process technology • Optical sensors • Biosensors • Theoretical nanotechnology • Lab-on-a-chip • Biotechnology • Nanotechnology                                                                                                   Mogens Rysholt Poulsen, Head of department    · Tel: +45 45 25 57 57

 

 

    

DTU Physics Department of Physics
Experimental surface and nanomaterial physics • Theoretical atomic-scale physics • Biophysics and complex systems • Quantum physics and information technology • Optics • Fusion Energy                                                                                                    Jane Hvolbæk Nielsen, Head of department  · Tel: +45 45253222

 

    

DTU Space National Space Institute

DNSC is the Danish National Center for Space Research, Geodesy and Space Technology • It also serves as a public authority consultancy, particularly regarding Danish member- ship of the European Space Agency, ESA • Major fields of - interest are: astrophysics, including satellite missions and in- strumentation in optical, microwave and X-ray wavelengths; planetary physics including Earth observation and monitoring;  climate and cryosphere, gravity and planetary magnetic fields, including satellite observations and theoretical modeling; geodetic reference models; GPS/Gallileo satellite missions and GIS developments.                                                                                                                                                       Eigil Friis-Christenen, Director   · Tel: +45 35 32 57 07

 

DTU Systems Biology Department of Systems Biology
Biofuels: energy from biomass • Food: production, bio- technology, quality and safety • Industrial biotechnology: microbial cell factories • Bioinformatics and systems biology,  including nutritional genomics and immunology • Develop- ment of new pharmaceuticals targeting communicable diseases      Egon Bech Hansen, Head of department  · Tel: +45 45 25 26 20

     

DTU Transport Department of Transport

Transport economics and policy • Traffic psychology and safety • Modelling passenger and freight transport and traffic behaviour • Sustainable transport • Markets and regulation • Valuation of travel time • Cost benefit analysis • Accident ana- lysis and preventive measures in traffic safety • Young drivers' risk factors • Safe mobility for elderly people • Alcohol and traffic safety • Railway safety Intelligent transport systems • Transport network design • Logistics and transport • Traffic- and transport models • Geographic information systems • Decision models and  evaluation methods • Public transport • Rail transport • Traffic informatics • Traffic management and engineering  • Transport planning • Highway engineering • Traffic simula- tion models                 Niels Buus Kristensen, Head of department   · Tel: +45 45 25 65 01

 

DTU Vet National Veterinary Institute

Research in pathogenesis, microbiology, immunology, vaccinology and epidemiology • Research and development of diagnostic tests and vaccines • Hosts the International Research Centre for Veterinary Epidemiology (International EpiLab) • National, European Union and World Organisation for Animal Health (OIE) reference laboratory for infectious animal diseases • Coordinates the national monitoring of veterinary drug use (VetStat) • Responsible for the labora- tory component of Denmark’s veterinary contingency plan                                                                                               Kristian Møller, Director   · Tel: +45 35 88 61 89

 

  

DTU Wind Energy Department of Wind Energy
Wind energy • Composite and metal mechanics • Fluid mechanics                                         Peter Hauge Madsen, institutdirektør     · Tlf. + 45 46 77 50 01

 

 

      

Admission Course
Qualification for admission to engineering degree programs: one-year course in mathematics, physics, chemistry, Danish and English • Supplements upper-secondary degrees that qualify for admission to engineering degree programs.                                                                                                       Christian Thue Jacobsen, Director    · Tel: +45 45 25 56 63

 

       

DTU Biosustain  The Novo Nordisk Foundation Center for Biosustainability

Bioengineering, Microbial Cell Factories – Production Strain Development, Metabolic Engineering, Pathway Modelling, Regulatory Network Reconstruction, Plant Pathway Discovery, Synthetic Biology, Systems Biology, Sustainable Biobased Production of Chemicals(fine and bulk) and Compounds (food ingredients, pharmaceuticals) - 2nd generation Biorefineries, Omics (metagenomics, transcriptomics, metabolomics, biobrics),  High Through-put Molecular Bioscience (tools for sequencing, micro droplet screening assays, and DNA vector assembly). Adaptive Laboratory Evolution, Microbial Eletrosynthesis, Novel Technology Development and Tech Transfer.      Bo Skjold Larsen, Chief Operating Officer  · Tel: + 45 45 25 80 08

      

DTU Business DTU Executive School of Business

Innovation • New business creation and strategy • Leadership Corporate Entrepreneuship • Commercialization • Techno- trends • Technology management • Strategic problem- solving • Innovation economics • Operations management Change management • Business development • Globalization Value creation • Action learning                                                                                                                   Jakob Holst, acting Director    · Tel: +45 45 25 61 19

  

    

DTU Cen Center for Electron Nanoscopy
The Center will host a unique cluster of seven electron microscopes being established in a new specially designed building • Will support advanced research and education related to nanotechnology and materials technology at DTU.                                                                    Andrew Burrows, Director    · Tel: +45 45 25 64 73

  

 

 

 

DTU Danchip Danchip
Public national laboratory within micro- and nanotechnology accessible to both academic and industrial users • Activities are geared towards research, education, development and production as well as innovation and technology transfer.                 Jörg Hübner, Director    · Tel: +45 45 25 57 62

 

 

 

 

 

DTU National Laboratory for Sustainable Energy

DTU National Laboratory for Sustainable Energy represents and develops DTU’s cooperation with international authorities and organizations within the energy area and represents the DTU in different European contexts like EERA, IEA, DOE and other international bodies. DTU National Laboratory is responsible for DTU's international energy conferences and the publication DTU International Energy Report. DTU National Laboratory also facilitates contact to and cooperation with the sustainable energy industry by ensuring a broad commitment from the relevant departments at DTU.   Hans Larsen, Vicedekan  · Tel: +45 46 77 51 01

 

 

      

DTU Library  Technical Information Center of Denmark

DTU center for providing and managing scientific information, information competencies and consultancy • Denmark's national technical information center • Library services for DTU, industry and the public • Digital information services Learning and study environments for DTU students • Training and consultancy • Develops and operates digital library systems and research information systems and repositories • Develops other systems for managing scientific information • Partner in international development projects in e-infrastructure for research                                                                                                             Mogens Sandfær, Director    · Tel: +45 45 25 73 11

 

      

DTU Nutech Center for Nuclear Technologies
National Competence Centre for Radiation Research and nuclear technologies • Medical applications of nuclear methods           Jens-Peter Lynov, Director   · Tel. + 45 46 77 46 67