Title and Affiliation:

Professor, Niels Bohr Institute, University of Copenhagen

Lecture title:

Hydrogels based on Molecular Self-assembly Combined Studies of Structure and Rheology

Short autobiography:

Kell Mortensen is head the X-Ray and Neutron Science Section at the Niels Bohr Institute, University of Copenhagen. Kell Mortensen obtained his PhD in physics from DTU in 1981, was postdoc at the IBM Research Center in New York 1980-81, and DTU 1981-93. He got affiliated with the Physics Department at Risø National Laboratory in 1983, where he was responsible for the construction and for the science at the small-angle neutron scattering facility, and co-founder of the Danish Polymer Centre jointly with DTU. In 2007 he joined the University of Copenhagen, where he was heading the Structural Biophysics group, and has been a co-founder of the Program for Synthetic Biology. Kell Mortensen has published more than 335 papers in international journals and books. He has more than 12.200 citations, and an H-index of 61 (WoS). Kell Mortensen has given more than 100 invited presentations at international conferences and summer schools. Kell Mortensen is or has been member of a number of national and international science committees and councils, including the board of Danish National Research Foundation and chair of the Danish Research Council for Natural Sciences, the European Spallation Source Scandinavia, and the Danish and the European Neutron Scattering associations.

Research Interests:

1. -Application of X-ray and Neutron Scattering in Soft Matter Materials
   

2. -Polymer Physics
   

3. -Synthetic Biology