
Nordic Informatics Network in the Agricultural Sciences

Per Christian Hansen, responsible for the scientific contents
Title:
- Professor of Scientific Computing
- Born:
- July 9, 1957 in Nyborg, Denmark. Citizenship: Danish.
- Address:
- Parcelvej 114, DK-2830 Virum, Denmark. Phone: +45 45.85.78.12
- Work:
- Department of Mathematical Modelling, Section for Numerical Analysis, Building 305, Room 105, Technical University of Denmark, DK-2800
Lyngby. Phone: +45 45.25.33.51. Direct: +45 45.25.30.97. Fax: +45 45.93.23.73. Email: pch@imm.dtu.dk. URL: http://www.imm.dtu.dk/~pch .
- Specialization:
- Numerical algorithms and high-performance scientific computing.
Education
- 1977-1982: M.Sc. student at the Technical University of Denmark (DTU).
- 1982-1984: Ph.D. student at the Department of Numerical Analysis, DTU.
Degrees
- 1982: M.Sc. in Electrical Engineering.
- 1985: Ph.D. in Numerical Analysis.
- 1996: Dr.Techn. in Numerical Analysis.
Employments
- 1985: Research Fellow at the Department of Numerical Analysis, DTU.
- 1985-1988: Research Associate at the Astronomical Observatory, University of Copenhagen.
- 1988-96: Associate Professor at UNI-C.
- Since 1996: Professor at the Department of Mathematical Modelling, DTU.
Employments Abroad
- 1986: Visiting Research Associate for six months at the Department of Computer Science, Stanford University, supported by a Fulbright Grant.
- 1988: Visiting Research Associate for one month at the Department of Mathematics, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, during the Numerical Linear Algebra
Year.
- 1989: Visiting Research Associate for seven months at the Depart. of Mathematics, UCLA.
- 1990: Visiting Scholar for one month at the Mathematics and Computer Science Division, Argonne National Laboratory.
- 1992: Visit to University of California, Berkeley, for one month.
Awards
- June 1990: BIT Prize for distinguished paper on numerical analysis in the journal BIT.
- March 1994: Statoil Prize in recognition of the work in numerical analysis.
Publications
- 1 book (research monograph).
- 50 papers in refereed journals.
- doctoral dissertation (defended at DTU 1996).
- 4 software manuals.
- 5 Esprit BRA deliverables.
- 34 other publications.
Professional Memberships
- SIAM, Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (USA).
- Danish Academy of Technical Sciences.
- Danish Academy of Natural Sciences.
Ph.D. Students
- Susanne M. Balle (scientific computing; finished April 4, 1995).
- Soren Holdt Jensen (signap processing; finished March 8, 1995).
- Peter Soren Kirk Hansen (signal processing; finished April 15, 1998).
- Ole Moller Nielsen (scientific computing; finished May 13, 1998).
- Rasmus Munk Larsen (scientific computing; finished December 4, 1998).
- Tim Hultberg (scientific computing).
- Andreas Percy Schumacher (inversion algorithms).
- Preben Kidmose (signal processing).
- Ann-Charlotte Berglund (inversion algorithms).
Current Research Funding
- DINA: Danish Informatics Network in the Agricultural Sciences.
- Danish Interdisciplinary Inversion Group.
- EPOS: Efficient Parallel algorithms for Simulation and Optimization.
- NATO Collaborative Research Grant.

Author: phd@dina.kvl.dk. Updated: 8 October 1999