DTU Ørsted Lectures

The lectures provide a unique opportunity for researchers, students, alumni, and other interested audiences to be inspired by some of the world’s leading scientific minds in research areas explored at DTU.

Ørsted Lecturers are selected based on their outstanding international standing within their research fields as well as their ability to engage a broad audience through professional enthusiasm and insight.

Upcoming lectures are announced in the DTU calendar and on campus.

DTU Ørsted Board

• Provost Christine Nellemann (President)
• Professor Nini Pryds, DTU Energy
• Professor Georgios Kontogeorgis, DTU Chemical Engineering
• Professor David Pisinger, DTU Management
• Professor Anne S. Meyer, DTU Bioengineering
• Professor Christine Ipsen, DTU Engineering Technology
• Professor Jesper Henri Hattel, DTU Construct

Previous DTU Ørsted Lecturers

Previous DTU Ørsted Lectures can be viewed on DTU’s YouTube channel .

2025

• Nobel Laureate, Professor Morten Meldal, Department of Chemistry, University of Copenhagen, Denmark

2024

• DTU Ørsted Lecture Special: Astronaut Andreas Mogensen, ESA, live from the International Space Station
• Søren Nørvang Madsen, Chief Engineer of Planetary Science, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, USA

2023

• Professor Dorthe Dahl-Jensen, Niels Bohr Institute, University of Copenhagen, Denmark; Centre for Earth Observation Science, University of Manitoba, Canada
• Professor Lindy Elkins-Tanton, Arizona State University, NASA JPL Psyche Mission, USA
• Professor Albert-László Barabási, Network Science Institute and Department of Physics, Northeastern University

2021

• Professor Anders Nilsson, Division of Chemical Physics, Department of Physics, Stockholm University, Sweden

2020

• Nobel Laureate, Professor Gerard Mourou, École Polytechnique, France

2019

• Professor Steven D. Eppinger, The MIT Sloan School of Management, USA
• Nobel Laureate, Professor Frances H. Arnold, Division of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Caltech, USA

2018

• Professor Stephen Boyd, Electrical Engineering, Stanford University, USA

2017

• Nobel Laureate, Professor Steven Chu, Department of Physics and Department of Molecular & Cellular Physiology, Stanford University, USA
• Professor Steven G. Louie, Department of Physics, University of California at Berkeley, USA
• Professor Zoubin Ghahramani, Department of Engineering, University of Cambridge, UK

2016

• Professor Frank S. Bates, Department of Chemical Engineering and Materials Science, University of Minnesota, USA
• Professor George M. Whitesides, Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology, Harvard University, USA

2015

• William F. Baker, Structural Engineering Partner, Skidmore, Owings & Merrill, LLP, USA
• Professor Robert S. Langer, Department of Chemical Engineering, MIT, USA

2014

• Nobel Laureate, Professor Ada Yonath, Department of Structural Biology, Weizmann Institute, Israel
• Professor H. Jeff Kimble, Institute for Quantum Information and Matter, Caltech, USA

2013

• Dr. John E. P. Connerney, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, USA
• Professor James R. Rice, School of Engineering and Applied Science and Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Harvard University, USA

2012

• Nobel Laureate, Professor Mario Molina, Basic Science Faculty, University of California, San Diego, USA
• Professor Michael Grätzel, Laboratory of Photonics and Interfaces, École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Switzerland

2011

• Professor Stanley N. Cohen, Department of Genetics, Stanford University, USA
• Professor Juan de Pablo, Department of Chemical Engineering, University of Wisconsin–Madison, USA

2010

• Professor Lene Hau, Department of Physics, Harvard University, USA

2009

• Professor Sajeev John, Department of Physics, University of Toronto, Canada
• Professor Howard A. Stone, Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, Princeton University, USA

2008

• Nobel Laureate, Professor Ahmed Zewail, Caltech, USA
• Professor Nathan S. Lewis, Division of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Caltech, USA