Bodil Holst
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Bodil Holst

Danish physicist

Bodil Holst is a Danish-Norwegian physicist known for her work on nanoscale imaging, 2D material characterisation and mask based lithography using molecular beams. Other research areas include smart surfaces and plant fibre identification.2

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Born 1972.1

About

She is CEO of the company Lace Lithography and affiliated professor in the Department of Physics and Technology at the University of Bergen in Norway.

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Companies

Early life and education

  • Date not recordedBI Norwegian Business School3
  • Date not recordedUniversity of Cambridge3

Holst studied physics and mathematics at the University of Copenhagen. In 1997, she earned a doctorate at the University of Cambridge. She continued as a postdoctoral researcher at the Max Planck Institute for Fluid Dynamics in Göttingen, Germany and at the Graz University of Technology in Austria. On the verge of giving up her academic career, she came to the University of Bergen in 2007, funded by a recruitment grant from the Trond Mohn Foundation. Since 2023 she is CEO of the company Lace Lithography, which she founded together with her former PhD student Adria Salvador Palau.

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Career

Occupation: university teacher, physicist, mathematician, professor of physics, scientist.6

Personal life

  • CitizenshipKingdom of Denmark7