Jørgen Østergaard (born 29 July 1944 in

Sindal Sindal is a railway town on the island of Vendsyssel-Thy at the top of the Jutland peninsula in northern Denmark. It has a population of 3,071 (1 January 2025) and is located in Hjørring Municipality in Region Nordjylland. Until 1 January 2007 ...

) is a Danish

Engineer Engineers, as practitioners of engineering, are professionals who Invention, invent, design, build, maintain and test machines, complex systems, structures, gadgets and materials. They aim to fulfill functional objectives and requirements while ...

and former rector at

Aalborg University Aalborg University (AAU) is an international public university with campuses in Aalborg, Esbjerg, and Copenhagen, Denmark. Founded in 1974, the university awards bachelor's degrees, master's degrees, and PhD degrees in a wide variety of subje ...

. Jørgen Østergaard is born in

North Jutland in Denmark in 1944 and later graduated high school in

Hjørring Hjørring () is a town on the island of Vendsyssel-Thy at the top of the Jutland peninsula in northern Denmark. It is the main town and the administrative seat of Hjørring Municipality in the North Jutland Region. The population is 25,908 (acco ...

. He studied engineering at the Danish Academy of Engineering. After finishing his education he first worked at the Teletechnical Research Laboratory and then at the Danish Academy of Engineerings department in

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which later merged with

. From 1980 to 1989 he worked as the Dean of the Faculty of Engineering and Science at Aalborg University. After some years as an associate professor he was elected

prorector Academic rank (also scientific rank) is the rank of a scientist or teacher in a college, high school, university or research establishment. The academic ranks indicate relative importance and power of individuals in academia. The academic ran ...

at Aalborg University which was a position that he occupied from 1993 to 2004. In 2004 Jørgen Østergaard took over the title as rector at Aalborg University from his predecessor Sven Caspersen who left the job to become the chairman of the university. However Jørgen Østergaard only chose to be rector at Aalborg University for about a year before he himself resigned in favor of his successor Finn Kjærsdam. Jørgen Østergaard however continued at the university after his short reign as rector in his former position as prorector at Aalborg University. Later he became chief advisor with the important responsibility for the university's physical expansion.

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Academic staff of Aalborg University Living people 1944 births People from Hjørring Municipality {{Denmark-academic-bio-stub