Nils Olsen
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Professional Highlights
Nils Olsen received a master degree in Physics in 1985 and a Ph.D. in Physics in 1991, both from Göttingen University, Germany. He was research assistant at Geophysical Institute in Göttingen from 1985 to 1991; research associate at the Danish Meteorological Institute from 1993 to 1994, and assistant professor at the Geophysical Department of Copenhagen University from 1995 to 1998. Since 1998 he is senior scientist at the Danish Space Research Institute (from 2002 to 2007 called Danish National Space Center, now DTU Space), from 2001 to 2005 associated with the Danish Center for Planetary Science, and since 2005 associated with the Theoretical Geophysics and Planetary Physics Group at the Niels Bohr Institute, Copenhagen University.
Since 2008 he is professor of geophysics at DTU, and honorary professor
at Copenhagen University.
Nils Olsen's main activity interest includes modeling of the Earth's
magnetic field, geomagnetic variations, core fluid flow, and
electromagnetic induction in the mantle. He is author or co-author of
more than 100 scientific papers and technical reports (80 in
peer-reviewed journals) and has been convener or co-convener for
various sessions of IUGG, IAGA, AGU, EGS, and EGU.
Nils Olsen has been strongly involved in exploring the Earth's magnetic
field from space. He is PI for internal magnetic field research of the
Danish satellite Ørsted,
PI
of
the Ørsted-2 experiment on the SAC-C satellite, Co-I of the CHAMP mission, and chief
scientist of the Phase A of ESA's Swarm
constellation mission. He also works on the magnetic field of Mars and
the Moon, with emphasize on external-internal field separation and
electromagnetic induction studies.
Publications
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Last modified: September 06, 2010