Lasse Jensen is a professor of

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Pennsylvania State University The Pennsylvania State University (Penn State or PSU) is a Public university, public Commonwealth System of Higher Education, state-related Land-grant university, land-grant research university with campuses and facilities throughout Pennsyl ...

whose works have appeared in such chemistry journals as the ''

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'', among others. He got his bachelor's degree from

University of Copenhagen The University of Copenhagen (, KU) is a public university, public research university in Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark. Founded in 1479, the University of Copenhagen is the second-oldest university in Scandinavia, after Uppsala University. ...

in 1998 and two years later obtained master's from the same place. Four years later he got his Ph.D. from the

University of Groningen The University of Groningen (abbreviated as UG; , abbreviated as RUG) is a Public university#Continental Europe, public research university of more than 30,000 students in the city of Groningen (city), Groningen, Netherlands. Founded in 1614, th ...

and till 2007 worked as a postdoc at the

Northwestern University Northwestern University (NU) is a Private university, private research university in Evanston, Illinois, United States. Established in 1851 to serve the historic Northwest Territory, it is the oldest University charter, chartered university in ...

along with

George C. Schatz George Chappell Schatz (born April 14, 1949), the Morrison Professor of Chemistry at Northwestern University, is a theoretical chemist best known for his seminal contributions to the fields of reaction dynamics and nanotechnology. Early life an ...

. He is well-recognized by many honors and awards for the theoretical investigations of plasmon-enhanced vibrational spectroscopies and the development of a hybrid atomistic electrodynamics-quantum mechanical model. As of 2017 he is author or coauthor of over 100

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ed articles, generating more than 6400 career citations and an

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of 45. Jensen is a recipient of the 2010

Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers The Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE) is the highest honor bestowed by the United States federal government on outstanding scientists and engineers in the early stages of their independent research careers. T ...

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