Technical University of Denmark

Overview

Technical University of Denmark

The Technical University of Denmark (Danmarks Tekniske Universitet or DTU) is a public university located in Kongens Lyngby, Denmark. It was founded in 1829 as the "College of Advanced Technology" by Hans Christian Ørsted, the prominent Danish physicist and chemist. The university gained its current name in 1994. DTU is the first polytechnic institute in Denmark and is a member of the EuroTech Universities Alliance.

Technical University of Denmark Key Statistics

The university is organized into 27 departments. These include the DTU Executive School of Business, the Department of Chemical and Biochemical Engineering, the Department of Environmental Engineering, the Department of Wind Energy, the Department of Environmental Engineering, the Department of Chemical and Biochemical Engineering, and the Department of Micro-and Nanotechnology.

DTU has 11,031 students enrolled, 7,197 of whom are undergraduates, 3,834 postgraduates, and 1,330 doctoral students. It employs around 2,000 academic staff and 1,540 administrative staff. The university has four campuses, namely, the Lyngby Campus, the Ballerup Campus, the Risø Campus, and the Sisimiut Campus.

The DTU main library provides access to a collection of 308,000 printed books, 530,000 e-books, and approximately 61 million scientific articles.

Other Technical University of Denmark key statistics include its distinguished alumni that include Henrik Pontoppidan (Nobel Prize in Literature laureate), Henrik Dam (Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine laureate), Harald Bohr (Olympic silver medalist football player and mathematician), Per Vilhelm Brüel (co-founder of Brüel & Kjær), and Craig R. Barrett (former CEO of Intel).

Technical University of Denmark Research

Research at DTU is largely based on external financing from organizations like the European Research Council, the Novo Nordisk Foundation, the Carlsberg Foundation, and various ministries.

The university's top three research fields are biology, physics, and computer science. Its researchers have published in publications like Nature, Science, and Astronomy and Astrophysics. Its researchers had been invited to attend and/or present papers at international conferences such as the International Conference on Machine Learning, the International Cryptology Conference, and the Optical Fiber Communication Conference.

The most cited publication from Technical University of Denmark research is Ade et al.’s (2016) “Planck 2015 results - XIII. Cosmological parameters,” published in Astronomy and Astrophysics, with a total of 17,518 citations to date. The second most cited paper is Ade et al.’s (2014) “Planck 2013 results. XVI. Cosmological parameters,” published in Astronomy and Astrophysics. It has received a total of 16,530 citations. The university’s third most cited paper is Gentleman et al.’s (2004) “Bioconductor: Open software development for computational biology and bioinformatics,” published in Genome Biology. It has been cited in papers, articles, and other publications around 12,676times so far.

DTU has eight basic research centers. These include the Center for Nanostructured Graphene, the Center for Silicon Photonics for Optical Communications, Center for Intelligent Drug Delivery and Sensing Using Microcontainers and Nanomechanics, the Center for Hyperpolarization in Magnetic Resonance, the Center for the Macroscopic Quantum States, the Center for Microbial Secondary Metabolites, the Center for NanoPhotonics, and the Center for Visualizing Catalytic Processes.