GRAS
Satellite Application Facility

Kent Bækgaard Lauritsen

Scientist, Ph.D.
Danish Meteorological Institute
Atmosphere Ionosphere Research Division
Lyngbyvej 100
DK-2100 Copenhagen
Denmark

Phone: +45 39 15 74 54 Fax: +45 39 15 74 60
Email: kbl (at) dmi.dk
Homepage: www.nbi.dk/~baekgard



Research areas and interests

• Measurements of atmospheric parameters with GPS radio signals
• Inversion methods: Abel transform, back-propagation, wavelets, canonical transform
• Statistical physics and phase transitions in non-equilibrium systems: dynamics of interfaces, fractals, percolation, random walks, fractional Browian motion, random lattices, Monte Carlo simulations, self-organized criticality and avalanche dynamics, fluctuations and correlations in financial markets

Education

• 1991 Cand.Scient. (M.Sc.; physics), Aarhus University, Denmark
• 1995 Ph.D. (theoretical statistical physics), Aarhus University, Denmark

Employment record

• 1992 Research Fellow, Aarhus University, Denmark
• 1992/93 Research Fellow, HLRZ, Forschungszentrum Juelich, Germany
• 1994 Research Fellow, Boston University, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
• 1995 Post doc, Boston University, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
• 1996-97 Assistant Research Professor, Niels Bohr Institute, Denmark
• 1998-99 Associate Research Professor, Niels Bohr Institute, Denmark
• 1999- Scientist (from July 1st), DMI, Denmark