Lene Oddershede
21 - 24 April 2025
Loews Coronado Bay Resort
Coronado, California USA
Events
Lene Oddershede
The Niels Bohr Institute, Denmark
International Year of Quantum Science and Technology (IYQ)
Talk description coming soon...
About the Speaker
Lene joined the Novo Nordisk Foundation in 2019 to establish and lead activities in the Nat-Tech area covering the natural- and technical sciences, this including activities relating to quantum technologies and artificial intelligence. She has a background as a Professor of physics, Niels Bohr Institute (NBI) at Copenhagen University. Lene is a physicist, trained also in mathematics. She is an experimentalist and at the Niels Bohr Institute she constructed the first optical tweezers manipulation facility in Scandinavia. She is an expert in the interphase between quantum and the life sciences and is main designer of the Novo Nordisk Foundation Quantum Computing Programme, of the Quantum Foundry Copenhagen, as well as of the AI dedicated super-compute facility Gefion. As a researcher, she has been the leader of several interdisciplinary large-scale research projects, including center leader of a Grundforskningsfond Center of Excellence. She has received several research prizes, e.g., the Danish Optical Society prize for young investigators, the Silver Medal of the Danish Royal Academy of Sciences and Letters and the Elite Research Prize from the Danish Research Councils, the largest Danish public research prize. Lene Oddershede is a member of the Danish Academy of Technical Sciences, of the Danish Royal Academy of Sciences and Letters and of the Global Future Council for quantum economy at the World Economic Forum (WEF). Lene holds a PhD in physics from SDU, Odense, Denmark 1998.
