Tobias Holck Colding member of DTU's Board
The Technical University of Denmark has appointed three new members to their Board, including Tobias Holck Colding, math professor at MIT and UCPH.
The other two board members are Susanne Juhl (Master in Political Sciences, CEO of HMN Naturgas) and Hanne Søndergaard, MSc. (Chief Marketing Officer & Executive Vice President at Arla Foods). All three have been appointed as of 1 January 2017 for term of four years.
Colding was awarded the PhD degree from the University of Pennsylvania in 1992. He became a full professor at New York University as early as 1999. Since 2005 he has been a professor of mathematics at Massachusetts Institute of Technology; since 2006 also adjunct professor at the Department of Mathematical Sciences, University of Copenhagen, where he works around four months a year.
Colding has won several awards for his research and has considerable experience in both research and teaching from American elite universities. He is a member of several scientific societies.