Simon Westergaard Lex

Simon Westergaard Lex

Lektor, ph.d., Lektor

ORCID: 0000-0001-6106-6941
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Born 5 August 1981

Primary Research Interests

  • Green transition, sustainable communities, organizational change, design and innovation

Employment Record

  • 2022 –            Associate Professor
  • 2019 – 2022  Tenure Track Assistant Professor,
  • 2017 – 2019   Assistant Professor
  • 2014 – 2016   Postdoc, Department of Anthropology, UCPH
  • 2013 – 2014   Innovation consultant, PostNord
  • 2010 – 2013   Industrial Ph.D. scholar, PostNord and UCPH

Education and Academic Degrees

  • 2022: Leading Research – UCPH leadership course 
  • 2021: Occupational health and safety training course
  • 2017: The Teaching and Learning in Higher Education Programme,
  • 2013: Industrial Ph.D. PostNord and Department of Anthropology,
  • 2008: MSc in Anthropology, Department of Anthropology, AU
  • 2006: BSc in Anthropology, Department of Anthropology, AU

Grants and awards (selected)

  • 2022: PI of “Engaging Communities in the Green Fuels Transition” funded by Innovation Fund Denmark (DKK 1.500.000)
  • 2021: Co-PI of “SAMSKAB” funded by Velux (DKK 6,4M)
  • 2021: Co-PI of “RE-ANIMATE: Designs for Life-Enhancing Economies in Anthropological Perspective” funded by the Independent Research Fund Denmark (DKK 6.2M
  • 2019: Nominated for the University of Copenhagen Innovation Prize 2019.
  • 2018: Selected as the international profile in Saint Gobain´s Building Science Bulletin, 
  • 2017: Co-PI of “COMPASS, Collaborative Movements and Pathways to a Sustainable Society”, funded by Velux (DKK 6.2M)
  • 2017   Co-PI “Smart Cities Accelerator” funded by EU (DKK 24.3M)  

Trusted Positions and research stays (selected)

  • 2022 -   Member of the steering committee, Danish Center for Energy Storage (DaCES)
  • 2022 -   Co-editor, Journal of Business Anthropology
  • 2022 –  Research coordinator of the researcher group “Nature, Environment and Climate”, Department of Anthropology, UCPH
  • 2022 -  Member of the research committee, Department of Anthropology, UCPH
  • 2021-   Member of the Faculty Committee on Sustainability, Faculty of Social Science
  • 2020 – Union Representative, Department of Anthropology, UCPH
    2020–  Occupational health and safety representative, Department of Anthropology, UCPH
  • 2020: Member of the Danish Reference Group 5 for Horizon Europe
  • 2017: Member of advisory groups on Impact for the Associate Dean, UCPH
  • 2016: Research stay, Department of Anthropology, Osaka University 
  • 2012: Research stay, Department of Anthropology, Auckland University
  • 2011: Research stay, Virtual Human Interaction Lab, Stanford University

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