Peter H. Carstensen

Short CV



 

 

2007

Associate professor at The IT University of Copenhagen (ITU). Member of the Design of Organizational IT group. 

2005-

2006

Head of the Research Department at The IT University of Copenhagen (ITU). The Research Department included approximately 45 senior researchers, 45 PhD-students, four administrative officers, and some (part time) technical support staff members.

1999 - 2005

Associate professor at The IT University of Copenhagen (ITU). Head of Department. 
The department was one of ITU's four research departments. It was named Design and Use of Information Technology (DUIT) and conducted research on the interrelationships between the information technology, its users and their work practise, and on understanding and support of design and development of IT. DUIT included 20-25 senior and junior researchers.

Managing a large Danish projects on design and use of interactive web-applications (DIWA) and involved in activities on planning and collaboration support for autonomous groups.

1997 - 2003

Member of board of directors in NET-Medier A/S. NET-Medier provides Internet and WWW based communication, conference and information services.

1995 - 2000

Aalborg University: External associate professor at Open University. Giving courses in Human-Computer Interaction and Design of Computer-based Systems. Supervising students projects within these areas.

1997 - 1999

Associate professor at the Center for Tele-Information (CTI) at The Technical University of Denmark. 
Head of DTU's Multimedia section. Was involved in establishing the section including outlining a curriculum for the teaching in the area of distributed multimedia, and in planning and conducting research activities in within distributed multimedia and CSCW.

1996 - 1997

Senior scientist at Risø National Laboratory, Department for Systems Analysis, The Man-Machine Interaction Program. Participating in Design Explorer project on engineering designers use of information and SAFECO studying the cooperation among navigators on large container ships.

1996

Ph.D. in Computer Science at Roskilde University Center, Denmark.

1994 - 1996

Awarded tenure as researcher at Risø National Laboratory, Man-Machine Interaction Group. Participating in the CoTech group 2 network of excellence on: Organizational Memory 1995. Participating in the ESPRIT Basic Research project nr. 6225 COMIC (COmputer-based Mechanisms of Interaction in Cooperative work) 1992-1995, and in the Centre for Cognitive Informatics 1992-1995.

1992 - 1994

Researcher at Risø National Laboratory, Centre for Cognitive Informatics. Participating in the KAVAS (Knowledge Acquisition, Visualization and ASsessment tool) project. The project is funded by the EEU Telematics Program. Participating in the COMIC project (see above). Work analysis of the project management at Risø.

1989 - 1991

Research Scientist and Project Manager at the Danish Trade Union Federation's Informatics Research Center. Participating in a project developing a conceptual framework for work analysis of complex work settings. Work analyses of journalists work and complex administrative tasks.

1988 - 1989

Consultant in the development support center at the Danish Savings Banks Computer Center. Consultant for a 200 man year project in use of the Work Analysis. Involved in establishing a usability laboratory.

1984 - 1987

Research Scientist and Project Manager at Dansk Datamatik Center. Participating in an HCI knowledge transfer project founded by a Danish Research Foundation. Consultant for the second largest Danish bank in establishing a usability laboratory. Involved in developing a work analysis methodology. Project manager in the Euromath project funded by ESPRIT.

1985

M.Sc. (Cand. fil.) in Computer Science at University of Copenhagen, Denmark.

1983 - 1984

Software designer at Christian Rovsing A/S. Involved in designing and implementing basic inter-process and inter-cpu communication software.

1978 - 1982

Bording Micro Data: Software designer. Involved in designing and implementing administrative systems for payroll handling, bookkeeping, handling real estate dealing, etc.

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