Jan Vaagen#
Education/Degrees/Honors:
- 1964-70 University of Bergen (UiB), Norway
- 1970 Cand.Real., UiB
- 1977 Dr.Philos. (habilitation) UiB
- 1998 Hon.Prof. St.Petersburg University, Russia
Employment/Appointments:
- 1971-72 Research assistant, UiB
- 1972-73 NORDITA stipendiate, Copenhagen, Denmark
- 1973-76 Research associate and lecturer, Yale Univ., U.S.A.
- 1976-78 NORDITA stipendiate, Copenhagen, Denmark
- 1979- Associate Professor and full Professor, UiB
- 1990 Co-founder and Coordinator of the RNBT (Russian-Nordic-British Theory) collaboration
- 2003 Academia Europaea representative in EASAC’s Energy Steering Panel
- 2005 Co-founder of Energy Forum EF, Bergen, (Chair 2011-)
- Member of boards and advisory groups, such as at NORDITA, ECT*(Trento) and CERN
Science/Achievements:
Comprehensive scientific production – often cited. Some highlights:
- 1993 RNBT coins the name Borromean halo nuclei, and publishes (Phys.Rep.231) the underlying theory. A highly cited paper, in 2004 among the top-ten published in Physics Reports in the previous decade.
- 1999 The paper ‘Di-neutron configuration of 6He’, Phys.Rev.Lett.82(4996) with two Russian colleagues, made it to the top of the AIP(USA) June ranking.
- 2005 Promoter (with some success) of energy related and cross-disciplinary science (physics) within Academia Europaea, European Physical Society, UiB and industries.
