Prof. Poulsen heads CINEMA, a strategic research alliance promoting X-ray imaging within sustainable energy applications. He holds an ERC advanced grant: Diffraction based transmission X-ray microscopy. He is co-founder of two companies: Xnovo, commercializing grain-resolved x-ray imaging and Exruprive, which markets security solutions for airports.

Henning Friis Poulsen received his PhD in physics from University of Copenhagen in 1992 and was awarded a Dr. Techn. Degree in 2004. Following a postdoc position at HASYLAB, Germany, he has been a scientist at RISØ National Lab and DTU since 1995, from 2004 in a position as a professor.

During the period 2001-2011 he was in charge of the Danish centre of excellence: Metal Structures in Four Dimensions. His research interest is at the crossroads of x-ray physics and instrumentation and materials science. In particular, he works on developing and exploiting methods for multiscale characterization of crystalline materials.

Positions held

2012 – Present   Chairman at Xnovo Technology ApS.
2012 – Present   Professor Technical University of Denmark
2007 – 2011   Professor m.s.o., Technical University of Denmark
2004 – 2007   Research Professor, Risø National Laboratory for Sustainable Energy