Dorte Juul Jensen

Jensen's research involves advancing knowledge of the physical characteristics of metal structures. She has pioneered new experimental techniques based on neutron diffraction, electron microscopy, and synchrotron x-ray diffraction.

Career

After earning her Ph.d. in Civil Engineering, she was appointed chair of the Research Forum by the then minister of Research.

Since 1983 Juul-Jensen has been a researcher at Risø National Laboratory, first as a scientist, then from 1994 as a senior scientist.

Juul-Jensen is also an editor of the journal Scripta Materialia, an international journal of material science. She co-authored a book, Electron Backscatter Diffraction in Materials Science, which was published by Kluwer Academic in 2000.

Awards and achievements

• In 1997, Juul-Jensen became the first woman to be awarded the degree of Dr. Techn. in Denmark.
• In 1998, she was awarded a Tagea Brandt Rejselegat.
• In 1999, she was the first woman to receive the Statoil Prize (Danish: Statoil Prisen) for her work.
• In 2016, she received the CS Smith Award for the ground-breaking results she achieved using 3D techniques.
• In 2022, she received and ERC PoC grant to further develop the instrument to look into the internal structures of the metals in four dimensions
• In 2022, she also received the Villum Kann Rasmussen Annual Award in Science and Technology for her research into the internal microstructures and properties of metals.