Bent Erik Sørensen (born 13 October 1941), is a Danish physicist, distinguished mainly by research into future forms of
renewable energy
Renewable energy (also called green energy) is energy made from renewable resource, renewable natural resources that are replenished on a human lifetime, human timescale. The most widely used renewable energy types are solar energy, wind pow ...
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He is currently Professor Emeritus in the Department of Environmental, Social and Spatial Change in
Roskilde University,
Denmark
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,
and president of Novator Advanced Technology Consulting.
Biography
Sørensen gained his MSc in physics and mathematics in 1965 and was awarded a PhD in 1974 by the
Niels Bohr Institute in
Copenhagen
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, where he worked until 1980, when he became professor at Roskilde University.
He has undertaken sabbatical appointments in Japan, France, USA and Australia and has presented at numerous international events.
He received the Australian Government Award for Eminent European Scientists in 1982 and the
European Solar Prize in 2002.
In 1989, he was knighted by Queen
Margrethe II of Denmark
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.
Publications
Sørensen has published over five hundred articles, reports and papers, and has written a number of books, including:
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See also
*List of people associated with renewable energy
References
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20th-century Danish physicists
21st-century Danish physicists
People associated with renewable energy
1941 births
Living people