Curriculum Vitae for Benny Lautrup
Personal:
Benny Elley Lautrup; Danish; born June 25, 1939, in Copenhagen, Denmark;
married.
Education:
High School, Copenhagen, Denmark (1955-58).
Studies for mag.scient. degree from the Niels Bohr Institute, Copenhagen,
Denmark (1958-65).
Employments:
Fellow, Nordic Institute of Theoretical Physics (Nordita), Copenhagen, Denmark
(1965-67).
Research Associate, Brookhaven National Laboratory, New York, USA (1967-69).
Fellow and Research Associate, CERN, Geneva, Switzerland (1969-72).
Professor, Institut des Hautes Etudes Scientifiques, Bures-sur-Yvette, France
(1972-74).
Lecturer (associate professor), Niels Bohr Institute, Copenhagen, Denmark
(1974-2005 ).
Visiting Scientist, CERN, Geneva, Switzerland (1983).
Head, Computational Neural Network Center (CONNECT),
Copenhagen, Denmark (1991-1998).
Visiting Scientist, CERN, Geneva, Switzerland (1995).
Professor, Niels Bohr Institute, Copenhagen, Denmark (2005- )
Special appointments:
Danish delegate, CERN council, Geneva, Switzerland (1975-76).
Member, Danish Academy for Natural Science (1982- ).
Member, Restricted Committee of Future Accelerators, CERN, Switzerland
(1985-87).
Editor-in-charge, International Journal of Neural Systems (1988-97).
Member, editorial board, International Journal of Modern Physics C (Physics and
Computers) (1990-93).
European Liaison Officer for Neural Information Processing Systems conference
(1990-93).
Chairman, advisory board of Center for Application of Parallel Computers (CAP),
Denmark (1991-95).
Member, organizing committee, Dialog Seminars for Art, Science and Commerce,
Denmark (1991-94).
Member, scientific subcommittee of High Performance Computing Advisory
Committee, EEC (1991-92).
Member, technichal program committee, Neural Networks for Signal Processing,
IEEE workshop (1992).
Member, program committee, International Workshop on Modeling, Analysis, and
Simulation (1993).
Member, resource allocation committee for supercomputer exploitation, Denmark
(1993- ).
Chairman, board of Center for Philosophy of Nature and Science Studies (1994-
).
Member, organizing committee for workshop on The Spontaneous Order of Life,
Denmark (1996, 1998).
Member, BioComplexity, The Niels Bohr Institute (2002 - ).
Research:
Quantum Electrodynamics, g-2 of electron and muon (1963-71).
Unified Theory of Weak and Electromagnetic Interactions (1971-75).
Quantum Chromodynamics (1976-79).
Lattice Gauge Theory, simulations and mean field calculations (1980-85).
Superconducting sonic detectors for magnetic monopoles (1983).
Neural Networks and spin glasses (1986 - 1998).
Theory and applications of neural networks (1988- 1998).
Mathematical Models of Evolution and Coevolution (1991).
Analysis of Brain Scan Images (1994-1998).
Theory of the Micromaser (1995).
Magnetic Resonance Imaging (1996-1998).
Philosophy of Nature (1998 - ).
Fluid Mechanics (2001 - ).
Network theory (2003 - ).
Publications (1965- ):
77 scientific publications in refereed journals.
15 scientific conference contributions.
4 reprinted scientific articles in antologies.
10 other scientific publications.
9 edited volumes
135 popular and semipopular articles.
1 popular book in Danish, English and German.
1 textbook