The H.C. Ørsted Lectures

Twice a year, DTU invites prominent researchers from around the world to lecture on their work, research results, and the perspectives in their research field at the Ørsted Lectures. The lectures were inaugurated in 1998.

The lectures are intended as a unique opportunity for researchers, students and alumni and others to be inspired by some of the brightest minds in fields that are investigated at DTU.

The Ørsted lecturers are invited based on their prominent position within their research fields as well as for their ability to engage a wider audience with their professional enthusiasm and insight.

The Oersted Lecture Executive Committee

Professor Søren Molin, Professor Karsten Wedel Jacobsen and Professor Viggo Tvergaard.

Upcoming H.C. Ørsted Lecture

Previous H.C. Ørsted Lecturers

• Professor Michaël Grätzel, École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, EPFL

• Professor Pierre-Gilles de Gennes, Collège de France, Nobel Laureate in Physics
• Professor Ivar Giaever, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Nobel Laureate in Physics
• Professor Paul F. Hoffman, Sturgis Hooper Professor of Geology, Harvard University
• Professor Dr. Leroy Hood, William Gates III Professor, Institute of Systems Biology
• Professor, Sir Harold Kroto, University of Sussex, Nobel Laureate in Chemistry
• Professor Hugo de Man, Catholic University of Leuven
• Professor, Sir Roger Penrose, University of Oxford
• Professor Julius Rebek, Skaggs Institute for Chemical Biology
• Professor Cees Dekker, Nanophysics, TU Delft
• Professor Subra Suresh, Materials Science and Biological Engineering, MIT
• Professor Peter Greenberg, Microbiology, University of Washington  
• Honorary Professor Sir John Meurig Thomas, University of Cambridge
• Professor Ahmed Zewail, California Institute of Technology, Nobel Laureate in Chemistry
• Professor Nathan S. Lewis, Chemistry, California Institute of Technology
• Professor Ph.D. Sajeev John, University of Toronto
• Professor Howard A. Stone, Fluid Mechanics, Princeton University
• Mallinckrodt Professor of Physics and of Applied Physics Lene Vestergaard Hau, Harvard University
• Professor Stanley N. Cohen, Stanford Univiersity School of Medicine: Drug Resistant Microbes: New approaches to and old problem
• Professor Juan de Pablo, Chemical Engineering, University of Wisconsin-Madison
• Nobel Price Winner, Professor Mario Molina, University of California San Diego
• Professor Michael Grätzel, École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL)
• Dr. Jack Connerney, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, USA.
  

To view the lastest H.C. Ørsted Lecture, please follow the links below.

 

Dr. John E.P. Connerney, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, USA: 'Mars Crustal Magnetism: Through The Lens Sharply'    12 March 2013.

 

Professor Michael Grätzel, École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL): ’Nanostructured Photosystems for the Generation of Electricity and Fuels from Sunlight’ 26 October 2012.

Professor Mario Molina, University of California - San Diego: 'The Science and Policy of Climate Change'   12 June 2012.

Juan de Pablo, University of Wisconsin - Madison:  'Directed Self Assembly at the Nano Scale, and its Relevance in Modern Engineering'   1 November 2011.

Professor Stanley N. Cohen, Stanford University School of Medicine: 'Drug resistant microbes: new approaches to and old problem'   18 Mai 2011.