John Bøgild Hansen has been with Haldor Topsøe since 1975 in several capacities. Since 2000, he has been Senior Scientist, Company Management and Advisor to the Chairman, Dr. Haldor Topsøe on Hydrogen, Alternative Fuels, Energy conversion, Fuel and Electrolyser Cells. Prior, his work as senior scientist has been on R&D in the advancement of dimethylether (DME) technology and fuel processing for fuel cells. From 1985-1997, he was Department Manager in the general catalysis group and responsible for advancing methanol and DME technologies. Before, he was a Research Engineer in the catalysis group.
John Bøgild Hansen has around 50 publications including 6 book chapters and holds 22 patents. He has been invited as key note speaker for more than 20 lectures on synthetic fuel production, fuel cells, solid oxide electrolysis and fuels from biomass production and has given more than 30 presentations at international conferences. He holds an MS in Chemical Engineering from Denmark Technical University.