Photo by Bo Milvang of me aiming at a distant target!

Member of learned societies:

Since 2007: The Danish Academy of Technical Sciences
Since 2003: The International Astronomical Union
Since 2001: The European Astronomical Society
Since 1999: Foreningen for Kønsforskning i Danmark
Since 1997: The European Physical Society
Since 1996: The Meteoritical Society
Since 1994: The Danish Physical Society, Dansk Fysisk Selskab
Since 1993: The Danish Astronomical Society, Dansk Astronomisk Selskab

Member of the networks:

Since 2007: Albrightgruppen.dk
Since 2005: The Nordic Network of Women in Physics (NorWiP)
Since 2003: Skeptica.dk
Since 1999: Women in Physics in Sweden
Since 1998: Networks of Women Scientists established under the 5'th frame work program of EU
Since 1995: Network for Women in Physics in Denmark, Netværk for Kvinder i Fysik

Committee's/boards/panels which Anja C. Andersen serve or have served:

Appointed member of ESA's Exo-Planet Roadmap Advisory Team (EP-RAT), the task is to advise ESA on the likely developments in the broad domain of exo-planetary science in a time-frame extending to the end of the Cosmic Vision 2015-2025 plan and possibly for the decade beyond that.

Board member of the European Children's Universities Network.

Appointed member of the Council for the Danish Technical University (DTU), with the task to advise Rector of DTU, 2008 - .

Appointed member of the Advisory Board for DTU Space - The National Space Institute, 2008 - .

Board member of the Danish Astronomical Society, 2007 -

Appointed board member for Dansk Naturvidenskabsformidling, 2006 -

Appointed member of the presidium for Experimentarium, 2005 -

Chairperson of the section Women in Physics under The Danish Physical Society, 1996 - 2001, 2002 - 2004, 2006 - 2008.

Appointed member of the NORDITA astrophysics subfield committee, 2007 - .

Appointed member of the University of Copenhagen's Task Force on Women in Research, 2008.

Served as Expert Panel Member for the Descartes Science Communication Prize, 2006 and 2007 in Bruxelles.

Evaluator on WONDERS 2007 in Lissabon.

Appointed member of the Danish Academy of Technical Sciences Think Tank, 2004 - 2007

Served on the ESO Observerving Programmes Committee (panel C), 2006 - 2007.

Jury member for the DTUsat project 2005 where students build, launch and operate satellities.

Staff member of the Niels Bohr Institutes teaching committee (undervisningsudvalg), 2005 - .

Fellows' representative of the NORDITA Board, 2002 - 2005.

Appointed by the Danish Minister of Research as member of The Committee to Investigate Equal Opportunity in Research, 1998.

Elected member of the Copenhagen University Natural Science Ph.D.-study Board, 1996 - 1998.

Elected member of the Niels Bohr Institute Board, 1994 - 1995.

Member of the Copenhagen Astronomical Observatory Board and teaching committee (undervisningsudvalg), 1990 - 1992.

Elected member of the staff-student committee of physics (fysik studienævnet), Copenhagen University, 1985 - 1989.

Conference Organising Committee's:

2009 Member of the Scientific Organising Committee (SOC) for the International Summer School: Stellar Collapse, Compact Objects, Supernovae, and Gamma-Ray Bursts, Copenhagen, Denmark.
2009 Co-chair of the Scientific Organising Committee (SOC) for the International Workshop: Current Problems in Extragalactic Dust, Copenhagen, Denmark.
2009 Member of the Scientific Organising Committee (SOC) for the International Summer School: CompSchool 2009: NBIA Summer School on Stellar Collapse, Compact Objects, Supernovae, and Gamma-Ray Bursts, Copenhagen, Denmark.
2008 Member of the Scientific Organising Committee (SOC) for the International Conference: Cosmic Dust - Near and Far, Heidelberg, Germany.
2008 Member of the Scientific Organising Comittee (SOC) for the International Conference: Chirality 2008, Stockholm, Sweden.
2007 Member of the Scientific Organizer (SOC) of the Splinter D meeting: The Chemical Evolution of the Universe on its Smallest Scales: Dust in Stars, Disks and Planets, which was part of the International Conference: Cosmic Matter, Wurzburg, Germany.
2006 Co-chair of the Scientific Organizing Comittee (SOC) for the Joint Discussion JD11: Pre-solar Grains as Astrophysical Toolsa, which was part of the IAU XXVIth General Assembly, Prague, Czech Republic.
2005 Member of the Scientific (SOC) and Local (LOC) Organizing Committee's for the Nordic Conference on: Astrobiology and Origins of Life, Copenhagen, Denmark.
2004 Member of the Scientific (SOC) and Local (LOC) Organizing Committee's for the Nordic Conference on: Astrobiological problems for physicist and biologists, Tuorla, Finland.
2004 Member of the Scientific (SOC) and Local (LOC) Organizing Committee's for the Nordic Conference on: Astrobiological problems for physicsts, Copenhagen, Denmark.

PhD committee's:

Chair of the PhD-dissertation committee for Christina Thoene on her thesis Gamma-ray burst host galaxies at high resolution, University of Copenhagen 2008.

Chair of the PhD-dissertation committee for Christian Vinter on his thesis Gravitational Microlensing - From Observations to Model, University of Copenhagen 2008.

Chair of the PhD-dissertation committee for Jose Maria Castro Ceron on his thesis High Redshift Gamma Ray Bursts: Lighthouses of the Universe, University of Copenhagen 2008.

Chair of the PhD-dissertation committee for Mia Stampe Lagergaard on her thesis Electric Currents in the Polar Magnetosphere, University of Copenhagen 2006.

Chair of the PhD-dissertation committee for Pall Jakobsen on his thesis Gamma-Ray Bursts and Their Hosts: A Multi-Wavelendgth Exploration, University of Copenhagen 2005.

Member of the PhD-dissertation committee for Bjorn Davidsson on his thesis Thermophysical Modelling and Mechanical Stability of Cometary Nuclei, Uppsala University 2003.

Member of the PhD-dissertation committee for Johan Warell on his thesis Regolith Properties of Mercury Derived from Observations and Modelling, Uppsala University 2003.
Jens Hjorth, Jørgen Christensen-Dahlsgaard and I evaluating presentations by PhD-students.

Have served as referee/evaluator for:

Astronomy and Astrophysics
Journal of Quantitative Spectroscopy and Radiative Transfer (JQSRT)
Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta
Applied optics
Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society (MNRAS)
Mineralogy and Petrology
Astronomische Nachrichten
Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research
Austrian Academy of Sciences
K.U. Leuven
NSF - National Science Foundation US

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anja @ dark-cosmology.dk
May 2009.