Mogens Høgh Jensen

Professor Mogens Høgh Jensen is a leading academic at the Niels Bohr Institute, University of Copenhagen, specializing in Complex Systems and Biophysics. He serves as Head of BioNET, Group Leader of the Biocomplexity Group, and President of the Royal Danish Academy of Science and Letters since 2016.

• Research Focus: Complex phenomena across scales—from cellular genetic regulation to oceanic turbulence. Key areas include chaos theory, multifractal formalism, and transcription factor dynamics (p53, NF-κB, Wnt) in DNA repair and inflammation.
• Awards:
  • Gunnar Randers Physics Prize (2011)
  • "King of Complexity" recognition (Teknisk Ukeblad)
• Academic Leadership: Supervised 40 PhD students, 30 postdocs, and 50 MSc students. Organizer of 34 international conferences and Associate Editor for Physica A and Quantitative Biology.
• Current Projects: Investigating SYNCHRO (Danish Council for Independent Research) to analyze synchronization in biological and physical systems.