Professor Brandt’s research is concerned with understanding the physical and chemical processes in the air that contribute to the formation of air pollution and how this affects human activities. He also carries out research into the extent to which air pollution affects human health, the impact of air pollution on nature, and the effect of climate change on air pollution – and vice versa. He works on developing models for the atmospheric transport and chemical transformation of air pollution at all levels from local to global scale. He has developed advanced model systems that describe the correlation between the different sources of air pollution and the impact on human health. He has worked with science researchers and environmental economists to assess the health-related costs of air pollution.

Professor Brandt is one of the anchormen behind the daily air pollution prognoses released since 1999. He developed a model for predicting the spread of the radioactive cloud following the Chernobyl disaster in 1995 – a model that was subsequently used to predict the spread of the ash cloud from the Icelandic volcano Eyjafjallajökull in 2010.

His research has also attracted the attention of the media, leading to his participation in almost 160 interviews in newspapers, and on radio and TV.

In 1994, Jørgen Brandt completed his MSc in Geophysics and Meteorology at the Niels Bohr Institute, University of Copenhagen, where he subsequently completed a PhD in Atmospheric Physics and Modelling. In 1998, he took up an appointment at Denmark’s National Environmental Research Institute (NERI), which became part of Aarhus University in 2007. Here he is head of the Section for Atmospheric Modelling. The new professor has published more than 75 articles in international journals, and more than 110 scientific reports, approximately half of which are aimed at supporting public sector decisions regarding air pollution for municipalities, ministries and the European Commission.

Jørgen Brandt (47) lives with Anne Munch Terkelsen and they have three children. He was born in Tuse Næs near Holbæk and now lives in Brøndby Strand.

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Professor Jørgen Brandt
Department of Environmental Science
Aarhus University
+45 8715 8522
jbr@dmu.dk

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