September 15, 2015
Professor and SUNCAT Director Jens Norskov received the Carlsberg Foundations Research Prize of 1MDKK. The Prize is awarded on the basis of a recommendation from the Royal Danish Academy of Science and Letters and is viewed as its highest recognition. The recommendation quotes Norskov’s crucial contributions to the theoretical description of surface physics and chemistry, catalysis and materials science and their application to the solution of problems in relation to sustainable energy and chemical production. The Prize was handed over by Crown Princess Mary of Denmark at a ceremony in the Glyptoteket in Copenhagen on September 2, 2015.