38 Notable alumni of Technical University of Denmark
Updated: June 23, 2026 EliteDegrees
Technical University of Denmark is ranked #183 in the world and #3 in Denmark by aggregated alumni prominence. Below is the list of 38 notable alumni from Technical University of Denmark sorted by their wiki pages popularity. The directory includes famous graduates and former students along with research and academic staff. Many individuals affiliated with Technical University of Denmark won Nobel Prizes for Peace, in Physics, Chemistry, Physiology or Medicine, and Economics.
1. Lisbeth Olsson
1963-. (aged 63)
microbiologist
Lisbeth Olsson is a Swedish microbiologist and a professor in industrial biotechnology at Chalmers University of Technology in Gothenburg.
2. Anders P. Ravn
1947-2019 (aged 72)
computer scientist
programmer
university teacher
Anders Peter Ravn was a Danish computer scientist.
3. Kirsten Gram-Hanssen
1964-. (aged 62)
researcher
Kirsten Gram-Hanssen is a Danish professor at Department of the Build Environment of Aalborg University in Copenhagen. She graduated Master from Department of Social Science at the Technical University of Denmark (DTU) in 1991 and in 1996 she was awarded a Ph.d.
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4. Lars Gunnarsen
1959-. (aged 67)
university teacher
researcher
Lars Gunnarsen is a Danish professor in construction at Aalborg University where he conducts research in indoor climate and ventilation.
5. Harald Ludvig Westergaard
1853-1936 (aged 83)
demographer
banker
mathematician
statistician
economist
Harald Ludvig Westergaard was a Danish statistician and economist known for his work in demography and the history of statistics.
6. Axel Berg
1856-1929 (aged 73)
architect
Emil Axel Berg was a Danish architect. He received the Neuhausen Prize, C. F. Hansen Medal, and Eckersberg Medal, and was honored as a Knight of Order of the Dannebrog.
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7. Steen Rasmussen
1955-. (aged 71)
physicist
Steen Rasmussen is a Danish physicist mainly working in the areas of artificial life and complex systems. He is currently a professor in physics and a center director at University of Southern Denmark as well as an external research professor at the Santa Fe Institute. His formal training was at the Technical University of Denmark (1985 PhD in physics of...
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8. Torben Larsen
1942-. (aged 84)
university teacher
hydrologist
engineer
Torben Larsen is a noted Danish scientist working in the field of hydrology and water pollution.
9. Johannes Emil Gnudtzmann
1837-1922 (aged 85)
architect
Johannes Emil Gnudtzmann was a Danish architect working in the Historicist style. His most notable works are St. Paul's Church and the extension of the Royal Veterinary and Agricultural University's main building, both in Copenhagen. He was the father of Kaj Gnudtzmann.
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10. Dines Bjørner
1937-. (aged 89)
computer scientist
engineer
Dines Bjørner is a Danish computer scientist.
11. Sven Erik Jørgensen
1934-2016 (aged 82)
university teacher
chemist
ecologist
Sven Erik Jørgensen was an ecologist and chemist from Denmark.
12. Alexandra Boltasseva
1978-. (aged 48)
computer scientist
physicist
Alexandra Boltasseva, is Ron And Dotty Garvin Tonjes Distinguished Professor of electrical and computer engineering at Purdue University, and editor-in-chief for The Optical Society's Optical Materials Express journal. Her research focuses on plasmonic metamaterials, manmade composites of metals that use surface plasmons to achieve optical properties not seen in nature.
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13. Asger Ostenfeld
1866-1931 (aged 65)
civil engineer
engineer
physicist
Asger Skovgaard Ostenfeld was a Danish civil engineer who specialized in the theory of steel and reinforced concrete structures. He is now considered to be the founding father of the theory of structures in Denmark.
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14. Lauritz Peter Holmblad
1815-1890 (aged 75)
merchant
judge
Lauritz Peter Holmblad, often referred to as L. P. Holmblad, was a Danish industrialist and philanthropist. His company, which was simply known as L. P. Holmblad, had activities in dyes, soap, glue and playing cards. Holmblad was also part of the circle around Carl Frederik Tietgen, co-founding several of his companies.
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15. Julius Petersen
1839-1910 (aged 71)
university teacher
scientist
mathematician
Julius Peter Christian Petersen was a Danish mathematician. His contributions to the field of mathematics led to the birth of graph theory.
16. Danny Lange
1962-. (aged 64)
computer scientist
engineer
Danny B. Lange is a Danish computer scientist who has worked on machine learning for IBM, Microsoft, Amazon Web Services, Uber, and Unity Technologies.
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17. Hans Peter Jørgen Julius Thomsen
1826-1909 (aged 83)
university teacher
chemist
businessperson
Hans Peter Jørgen Julius Thomsen was a Danish chemist noted in thermochemistry for the Thomsen–Berthelot principle.
18. Jens B. Nielsen
1962-. (aged 64)
university teacher
molecular biologist
engineer
Jens Nielsen is the CEO of BioInnovation Institute, Copenhagen, Denmark, and professor of systems biology at Chalmers University of Technology, Gothenburg, Sweden. He is also an adjunct professor at the Danish Technical University and the University of Copenhagen. Nielsen is the most cited researcher in the field of metabolic engineering, and he is the most cited researcher in Biology and...
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19. Artūrs Toms Plešs
1992-. (aged 34)
politician
Artūrs Toms Plešs is a Latvian politician. As of 17 December 2020, he serves as Minister for Environmental Protection and Regional Development in the cabinet of Prime Minister Arturs Krišjānis Kariņš.
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20. Jan S. Hesthaven
1965-. (aged 61)
mathematician
Jan Sickmann Hesthaven is a Danish mathematician, currently president of the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology. He was previously Vice President for Academic Affairs (starting in 2021) at EPFL (École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne) and held the Chair of Computational Mathematics and Simulation Science (MCSS). He is particularly known for contributions to the development, analysis and application of high-order accurate computational...
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21. Søren Brunak
1958-. (aged 68)
university teacher
bioinformatician
information scientist
Søren Brunak is a Danish biological and physical scientist working in bioinformatics, systems biology, and medical informatics. He is a professor of Disease Systems Biology at the University of Copenhagen and professor of bioinformatics at the Technical University of Denmark. As Research Director at the Novo Nordisk Foundation Center for Protein Research at the University of Copenhagen Medical School, he...
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22. Gustav Adolph Hagemann
1842-1916 (aged 74)
local politician
chemist
Gustav Adolph Hagemann was a Danish engineer and businessman. He was chief technical officer of the Danish Sugar Factories from 1872 to 1897 and then served as chairman of the board until 1916. He owned several sugar plantations on Saint Croix in the Danish West Indies.
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23. Jakob Stoustrup
1963-. (aged 63)
engineer
scientist
Jakob Stoustrup is a Danish researcher employed at Aalborg University, where he serves as professor of control theory at the Department of Electronic Systems.
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24. Per Brinch Hansen
1938-2007 (aged 69)
computer scientist
engineer
university teacher
Per Brinch Hansen was a Danish-American computer scientist known for his work in operating systems, concurrent programming and parallel and distributed computing.
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25. Jytte Hilden
1942-. (aged 84)
politician
Jytte Hilden is a Danish chemical engineer and politician (Social Democrats). She was elected member of the Folketing from 1979 to 1998, and was appointed Minister for Culture in Poul Nyrup Rasmussen's first Cabinet.
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26. Piet Hein
1905-1996 (aged 91)
poet
writer
designer
mathematician
inventor
Piet Hein was a Danish polymath (mathematician, inventor, designer, writer and poet), often writing under the Old Norse pseudonym Kumbel, meaning "tombstone". His short poems, known as gruks or grooks (Danish: gruk), first started to appear in the daily newspaper Politiken shortly after the German occupation of Denmark in April 1940 under the pseudonym "Kumbel Kumbell". He also invented the...
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27. Jakob Nielsen
1957-. (aged 69)
computer scientist
web developer
businessperson
university teacher
Jakob Nielsen is a Danish web usability consultant, human–computer interaction researcher, and co-founder of Nielsen Norman Group. He was named the “guru of Web page usability” in 1998 by The New York Times and the “king of usability” by Internet Magazine.
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28. Ove Arup
1895-1988 (aged 93)
engineer
structural engineer
entrepreneur
architect
Sir Ove Nyquist Arup was a British engineer with Danish heritage who founded Arup, a multinational corporation offering engineering, design, planning, project management, and consulting services for building systems. Ove Arup is considered to be among the foremost architectural structural engineers of his time.
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29. Poul Henningsen
1894-1967 (aged 73)
film director
journalist
architect
autobiographer
designer
Poul Henningsen was a Danish author, critic, architect, and designer. In Denmark, where he often is referred to simply as PH, he was one of the leading figures of the cultural life of Denmark between the World Wars.
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30. Morten P. Meldal
1954-. (aged 72)
researcher
biochemist
chemist
Morten Peter Meldal is a Danish chemist and Nobel laureate. He is a professor of chemistry at the University of Copenhagen in Copenhagen, Denmark. He is best known for developing the CuAAC-click reaction, concurrently with but independent of Valery V. Fokin and K. Barry Sharpless.
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31. Henrik Svensmark
1958-. (aged 68)
physicist
climatologist
university teacher
nuclear physicist
Henrik Svensmark is a Danish physicist and professor in the Division of Solar System Physics at the Danish National Space Institute (DTU Space) in Copenhagen. He is known for his work on the hypothesis that fewer cosmic rays are an indirect cause of global warming via cloud formation.
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32. Ludvig Lorenz
1829-1891 (aged 62)
physicist
mathematician
Ludvig Valentin Lorenz was a Danish physicist and mathematician. In 1867, he gave completely general integral solutions to the differential equations of electromagnetism, which contain retardation effects reflecting the finite speed of light. This paper also introduces the Lorenz gauge, named after him.
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33. Haldor Topsøe
1913-2013 (aged 100)
engineer
chemical engineer
businessperson
Haldor Frederik Axel Topsøe was a Danish engineer and founder and chairman of the catalysis company Haldor Topsøe. He was grandson of the chemist and crystallographer Haldor Topsøe (1842–1935), after whom he is named.
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34. Anders Hejlsberg
1960-. (aged 66)
computer scientist
programmer
systems architect
Anders Hejlsberg is a Danish software engineer who co-designed several programming languages and development tools. He was the original author of Turbo Pascal and the chief architect of Delphi. He currently works for Microsoft as the lead architect of C# and core developer on TypeScript.
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35. Lone Simonsen
1959-. (aged 67)
epidemiologist
Lone Simonsen is a Danish epidemiologist and professor of population health sciences. Since the beginning of 2020, she has been the director of PandemiX, an interdisciplinary pandemic research center at Roskilde University. In 2023 PandemiX was established as a Center of Excellence funded by the Danish National Research Foundation.
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36. Leif Bjørnø
1937-2015 (aged 78)
acoustician
Leif Bjørnø was born on 30 March 1937 in Svendborg, Denmark. Son of Svend Aage Valdemar and Elna Marie Jensen. Leif Bjørnø, professor and well known acoustician. Named Knight of the Order of Dannebrog, Her Majesty the Queen of Denmark 1991, recipient Gold medal Society Francaise d'Acoustique, 1995, Lord Rayleigh's Gold medal, London, 1997, The Hartmann Prize, Copenhagen, 1999, Fellow...
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37. Peder Vilhelm Jensen-Klint
1853-1930 (aged 77)
designer
painter
architect
Peder Vilhelm Jensen-Klint was a Danish architect, designer, painter and architectural theorist, best known for designing Grundtvig's Church in Copenhagen, generally considered to be one of the most important Danish architectural works of the time. Its Expressionist style relies heavily on Scandinavian brick Gothic traditions.
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38. Henrik Dam
1895-1976 (aged 81)
chemist
pedagogue
university teacher
biochemist
physiologist
Carl Peter Henrik Dam was a Danish biochemist and physiologist.