Membership of External Boards, Committees and Societies

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ACADEMIC SOCIETIES

Appointed member of the Royal Danish Academy of Sciences and Letters, 1994-present
Appointed member of the Danish Academy of Technical Sciences, 1993-present
Appointed member of the Danish Academy of Natural Sciences, 1993-present


RESEARCH ADMINISTRATION

  • Member of the ERAsynbio Scientific Committee for the establishment of an interdisciplinary workshop in the field of synthetic biology (2012-present)
  • Member of the Danish Council for Research Policy (2011-2014)
  • Appointed by the Royal Danish Academy of Science and Letters as the Danish representative to the European Academies of Science Advisory Council (2011-2015)
  • Appointed Honorary Doctor at the University of Umeå, Sweden (2009)
  • Member of the Board of the Pajbjerg Foundation and of the Advisory Board of Nordic Seed (1998-2014)
  • Elected member of the International Human Rights Network of Academies and Scholarly Societies, Washington (2007-present)
  • Member of the Advisory Board of the Max-Planck Institute of Chemical Ecology, Jena, Germany (2008-present)
  • Member of the Danish Board of Appeal for Patents (1992-present)
  • Member of the Academic Council of KU-SCIENCE (1992-2012) and vice-chairman of the Research Board (1992-2009)
  • Chairman of the Federation Fellowships Selection Committee at the Australian Research Council (2007-2009) responsible for awarding annual grants totalling 25 million €
  • Member of the Leader Group of Department of Plant Biology and Biotechnology (1998-2012)
  • Coordinator of EEC research programs. Recipient of a prestigious grant from the Human Frontier of Science Program (2006-2009)
  • Co-founder of the Danish Biotech Company Poalis A/S, the pharma business of which was subsequently acquired by Evolva Biotech A/S (2001-2007)
  • Member of the Research Advisory Board for the Danish Biotech Company Aresa, developing plants for the detection of land mines (2006-2009)
  • Member of the Board of Trustees of the International Institute of Tropical Agriculture (IITA), Ibadan, Nigeria (2001-2009)
  • Member of the Scientific Advisory Board of the Leibniz Institute of Plant Biochemistry, Halle, Germany (2001-2008)
  • Appointed by the Minister of Food, Agriculture and Fisheries as Member of the Board of the Danish Institute of Agricultural Sciences (2001-2005)

Recent Positions of Trust at the University of Copenhagen (2009-2010)

  • Appointed by the Deans of the Science, Life Science and Pharma Faculties of the University of Copenhagen as Member of a Research Committee to recommend how the University fusions in the Copenhagen area should be optimized across and within different disciplines. This work resulted in the influential report P. Krogsgaard-Larsen, B.L. Møller, E. H. Larsen, B. Vestergaard, C. Lunde and P. Stæhr: Synergies within the natural sciences at the University of Copenhagen - an interfaculty evaluation of barriers and opportunities to improve the quality of infrastructure, research and education.  ISBN 978-87-90655-79-2 (2009) 43 pp 
  • Appointed by the Vice-Chancellor of the University of Copenhagen as Member of a Task Force to restructure collaboration between industrial partners and governmental institutions and the University of Copenhagen. This resulted in the report S.P. Olesen, H.Harmsen and B.L.Møller: The Recommendations of the Task Force regarding collaboration between Private Industries and the University of Copenhagen” (2009-2010), 57 pp.

Evaluation Panels and Positions of Trust

  • 1999: Member of an international panel to evaluate agricultural research in Sweden
  • 1993: Appointed by the Danish Minister of Food, Agriculture and Fisheries as member of the supreme committee to establish a “National Strategy for the Agricultural Sciences in Denmark”
  • 1992-1998: Appointed by the Minister of Research as Member of the Danish Research Council for Agriculture and Veterinary Sciences

 

Memberships to Recruitment Panels/Editorial Boards/Journal Referee

Member of numerous panels responsible for recruitment of Research Directors and Full Professors in Denmark and abroad.

Member of the Editorial Board of Phytochemistry; Reviewer for Science, PNAS, Plant Cell, Plant Journal, Plant Physiology, Phytochemistry and others.