There can be no green transition without Power-to-X. There can be no Power-to-X without catalysis. And when talking about catalysis, Jens Kehlet Nørskov's name is bound to pop up. The now 71-year-old professor at DTU Physics is impossible to ignore when it comes to finding alternatives to fossil fuels – and this is where catalysis comes in. It plays a vital role in the technology that could potentially save the world from the overconsumption of fossil fuels and the resulting carbon emissions that lead to an increasingly warmer planet.
World-class Danish research
Jens Kehlet Nørskov's CV boasts a long list of distinctions and counts several national and international awards, including the Niels Bohr International Gold Medal. On 22 March 2024, the list of distinctions will have to make room for one more. On this date, Jens Kehlet Nørskov will receive the Hans Christian Ørsted Gold Medal in the field of physics. The medal is awarded for excellent scientific work – world-class research, to be precise, as described on the website of the award-presenter, the Society for the Dissemination of Natural Science.
There can be little doubt the professor's research is world-class when looking at the international Highly Cited Researchers ranking, which is compiled annually by the research and analysis organization Clarivate. The list ranks the researchers who have published the 1 per cent most cited articles in their field. And Jens Kehlet Nørskov is included every year. In 2017, he was also named Clarivate Citation Laureate, an honour bestowed upon researchers Clarivate considers likely candidates for a Nobel Prize.
