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Present employment
Professor of theoretical physics, and Section Head
Department of Physics
Technical University of Denmark
Fysikvej Building 309
DK-2800 Kongens Lyngby, Denmark
Email: bruus@fysik.dtu.dk
URL: www.staff.dtu.dk/bruus
Mob: +45 2262 0880
Tel: +45 4525 3307
Fax: +45 4593 1669
Academic degrees
Ph.D. in physics, May 1990
Niels Bohr Institute, University of Copenhagen
Title of thesis:
The Quantum Hall Effect in GaAs/Ga1
¡xAlxAs Heterostructures
Thesis advisors: E. B. Hansen and P. E. Lindelof
M.Sc. in physics, August 1986
Niels Bohr Institute, University of Copenhagen
Title of thesis:
Relaxation Phenomena Studied by the Mössbauer Effect
Thesis advisors: J. M. Knudsen and M. Olsen
B.Sc. in mathematics and physics, June 1984
Niels Bohr Institute, University of Copenhagen
Employment history
Apr 2012 - present:
Professor and Section Head
DTU Physics, Technical University of Denmark, Kongens Lyngby
Jan 2005 - Mar 2012:
Professor and Section Head
DTU Nanotech, Technical University of Denmark, Kongens Lyngby
Dec 2001 - Dec 2004:
Associate professor
DTU Nanotech, Technical University of Denmark, Kongens Lyngby
Dec 1996 - Nov 2001:
Associate research professor
Niels Bohr Institute, University of Copenhagen
Sep 1994 - Nov 1996:
Research fellow
Centre de Recherche sur les Très Basses Températures (CNRS-CRTBT), Grenoble
Sep 1992 - Aug 1994:
Postdoctoral fellow
Department of Applied Physics, Yale University, New Haven
Sep 1990 - Aug 1992:
NORDITA fellow
Nordic Institute of Theoretical Physics
Aug 1986 - Aug 1990:
Scientific staff member (while PhD-student at Univ. of Copenhagen)
Danish Institute of Fundamental Metrology, Kongens Lyngby
Jun 1985 - Aug 1985:
Research assistant
CERN, Geneva. Experimental work on the DELPHI-Detector at the LEP-collider
Aug 1984 - Jun 1985:
High school teacher in physics
Nørre Gymnasium, Copenhagen
Aug 1984 - Dec 1985:
Teaching assistant
Niels Bohr Institute, Ørsted Laboratory, University of Copenhagen
Visiting professor
Oct 2014 - Oct 2014: ESPcI ParisTech, Paris, France
Oct 2013 - Oct 2013: Université Diderot, Paris, France
Nov 2010 - Jan 2011: Princeton University, Princeton (NJ), USA
Aug 2010 - Oct 2010: MIT Cambridge (MA), USA
Feb 2010 - Jul 2010: University of California Santa Barbara (CA), USA
Oct 2007 - Nov 2007: ESPCI ParisTech, Paris, France
Aug 2001 - Sep 2001: Harvard University, Cambridge (Ma), USA
Honors
DTU Teacher of the Year 2013 (
YouTube)
Elected Fellow of the American Physical Society since 2011