Curriculum Vitae
Personal Information
Name: Janus Juul Eriksen, PhD
Date of Birth: October 23, 1987
Nationality: Danish
Work Address: See Contact.
Bluesky: @januseriksen.bsky.social
ResearcherID: N-2089-2019
ORCID: 0000-0001-8583-3842
Academic Career
2023-: Associate Professor @ DTU Chemistry, Denmark (tenure: 01/01/25)
2021-23: Assistant Professor @ DTU Chemistry, Denmark
2019-21: Independent Research Fund Denmark International Postdoctoral Fellow @ University of Bristol, UK (Host: Prof. Fred Manby)
2017–19: Alexander von Humboldt Postdoctoral Fellow @ Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz, Germany (Host: Prof. Jürgen Gauss)
2013–16: PhD Fellow @ Aarhus University, Denmark (Supervisor: Prof. Poul Jørgensen)
2009–12: M.Sc. Student @ University of Copenhagen, Denmark (Supervisors: Prof. Kurt V. Mikkelsen & Prof. Stephan P. A. Sauer)
2006–09: B.Sc. Student @ Aarhus University, Denmark
Career Breaks
2024: Two months of parental leave (Jan. – March 2024)
2017-18: Two months of parental leave (Dec. 2017–Jan. 2018)
2016: German Language School (Nov. 2016 – Dec. 2016, integrated prequel to my Alexander von Humboldt Postdoctoral Fellowship)
Grants and Fellowships
2024 European Seminar on Computational Methods in Quantum Chemistry: Novo Nordisk Foundation (2023), 34k EUR [PI]
2024 Nordic-Baltic Academy Meeting: NordForsk (2023), 20k EUR [PI]
Young Academy of Technology, Science, and Innovation: VILLUM Foundation (2023-28), 670k EUR [co-PI]
Sapere Aude Research Leader: Independent Research Fund Denmark (2023-27) - 835k EUR [PI]
VILLUM Young Investigator: VILLUM Foundation (2021-26) - 1,08M EUR [PI]
Reintegration Fellowship: Carlsberg Foundation (2021-24) - 235k EUR [PI] (Relinquished)
International Postdoctoral Fellowship: Independent Research Fund Denmark (2019–21) [PI]
Postdoctoral Fellowship: Alexander von Humboldt Foundation (2017–19) [PI]
Computer Allocations
2021 HPC Call, MogonII @ Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz, Germany (2021-22), 10.0M core-hours, [co-PI]
2020 HPC Call, MogonII @ Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz, Germany (2020-21), 10.0M core-hours, [co-PI]
18th PRACE Project Access Call, GALILEO @ Cineca, Bologna, Italy (2019-20), 26.4M core-hours, [PI]
PRACE Preparatory Access (Type A), Hazel Hen @ HLRS, Stuttgart, Germany (2018), 0.1M core-hours, [PI]
Honours and Awards
Founding member of the Young Academy of Technology, Science, and Innovation under the Danish Academy of Technical Sciences (2023-2028)
Elected member of the Young Academy of Denmark under the Royal Danish Academy of Sciences and Letters (2022-27)
Peter Salamon Award for Young Scientists, Telluride Science Research Center, Telluride, CO, USA (2018)
Aarhus University PhD Award 2017, Aarhus University, Denmark (2017)
IBM-Zerner Graduate Student Award, 55th Sanibel Symposium, St. Simons Island, GA, USA (2015)
Organisation of Scientific Meetings
2025: Current Trends in Electronic-Structure Theory (CTEST-2025) (Copenhagen, DK, 18-20 June 2025). Co-Org.: Sonia Coriani (DTU, DK)
2024: 18th European Seminar on Computational Methods in Quantum Chemistry (ESCMQC-2024) (Copenhagen, DK, 26-28 June 2024). Main funding: Novo Nordisk Foundation
2024: Nordic-Baltic Academy Meeting (Copenhagen, DK, 02-03 April 2024). Main funding: NordForsk
2022: OPERA2020: An International Symposium on Theoretical Chemistry in Honour of Prof. Jürgen Gauss on the Occasion of his 60th Birthday (Ingelheim am Rhein, DE, 31 August-02 September 2022). Co-Org.: Thomas Jagau (Leuven, BE) and Stella Stopkowicz (Saarland, DE). Main funding: German Research Foundation (DFG)
Supervision
Postdocs: Jonas Greiner [DTU, 2024-27]
PhD Students: Kasper F. Schaltz [DTU, 2023-26]; Luna Zamok [DTU, 2021-24]; Frederik Ø. Kjeldal [DTU, 2021-24]; Jonas Greiner [Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz, DE, 2021-24, main supervisor: Prof. Jürgen Gauss]
M.Sc. Students: Ivan Gianni [Università di Pisa, IT, 2022-23, main supervisor: Assoc. Prof. Filippo Lipparini]; Marike Bischoff [DTU, 2022]
B.Sc. Students: Rasmus P. Niemann [DTU, 2023]
Project Students: Pietro Dal Cin [DTU, 2023]; Marike Bischoff [DTU, 2022]
Assessment Committees
2023: Rasmus K. Jakobsen, PhD dissertation, external examiner [University of Copenhagen, DK] - Supervisor: Prof. Bo W. Laursen
Selected Service and Public Engagement
2025–27: Member, Editorial Advisory Board: Journal of Physical Chemistry (ACS)
2019–20: Guest Editor: Festschrift in Honour of Prof. Jürgen Gauss (Mol. Phys.). Co-Editors: Trygve Helgaker (Oslo, NO), Thomas Jagau (Leuven, BE) & Stella Stopkowicz (Saarland, DE)
2019–: Peer Review: JCP, JCTC, JPCL, JPCA, PCCP (& others)
2022–: Public Dissemination: Forskningens Døgn, ASTRA (Sorø Akademi), ATU (Akademiet for Talentfulde Unge), UNF (Ungdommens Naturvidenskabelige Forening)
Memberships and Affiliations
American Chemical Society (member since 2022)
Danish Chemical Society (member since 2010)
Quantum Chemistry Software
DECODENSE - lead developer
PyMBE - lead developer
PySCF - contributor
Dalton / LSDalton - contributor
OpenACC-Accelerated Coupled Cluster Theory - lead developer
OpenACC-Accelerated RI-MP2 Theory - lead developer