Jørgen Christensen-Dalsgaard

Jørgen Christensen-Dalsgaard (born 6 October 1950) is a Danish astronomer at Aarhus University in Denmark. He specializes in asteroseismology and helioseismology. He has made significant contributions to both fields, including predicting the oscillation of Sun-like stars in 1983.^[1] He is the head of "Rumudvalget" (the committee of space of the Danish Ministry of Science, Technology and Innovation)^[2] and the Stellar Astrophysics Centre (SAC) supported by the Danish National Research Foundation. He is co-investigator on the Kepler mission^[3] and, with Hans Kjeldsen in Aarhus, leads the 500+ researchers in the Kepler Asteroseismic Science Consortium (KASC).^[4] KASC is responsible for the asteroseismology component of the Kepler mission. Christensen-Dalsgaard has published several papers on this subject.^[5] He was also previously the president of Commission 27 of the International Astronomical Union.^[6]

He has been featured on Danish television and radio several times^[7] and has given many free public lectures on astronomy and asteroseismology.^[8][9][10]

Christensen-Dalsgaard obtained his PhD from the University of Cambridge in 1978, under the supervision of Douglas Gough.

Works

• Lecture Notes on Stellar Oscillations (only author)
• Bruun, Lone; Pedersen, Kristian (eds.). Dansk astronomi i kikkerten. ISBN 978-87-993384-0-5. 
• Thompson, Michael J.; Christensen-Dalsgaard, Jørgen, eds. (2003). Stellar astrophysical fluid dynamics. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-0-521-81809-4. 
• Aerts, C.; Christensen-Dalsgaard, J.; Kurtz D.W. (2010). Asteroseismology. Berlin: Springer. p. 882. ISBN 978-1-402-05178-4. 
• Pijpers, F.P.; Christensen-Dalsgaard, J.; Rosenthal, C.S., eds. (1998). SCORe'96: Solar Convection and Oscillations and their Relationship. Berlin: Springer. p. 324. ISBN 978-0-792-34852-8. 

References

External links

• Official website
• www.denstoredanske.dk