| Name |
Erik
Kjems |
| Address |
Bjerget
58, Langholt, DK-9310 Vodskov, Denmark |
| Born |
16. July
1962 in Flensburg, Germany |
| Family |
Married
to Kirsten |
| Children |
Louise
18 years and Thomas 15 years old |
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| Languages |
Danish,
German and English - fluently |
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| Education |
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| 1994 - |
Through the years I have received a couple of courses
within management and leadership and I also received a two year
course in the theory of education. As a researcher the continuous learning process is an essential part of the job. |
| 1994 |
Ph.D.
Degree, Title of Thesis: Multidynamic Design of Cross-roads.
(http://www.auc.dk/fak-tekn/phd/index.htm)
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| 1994 |
HD, Graduate Diploma in Commerce at Aalborg University. (http://evu.aau.dk/dilpom/hd)
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| 1987 |
Master
of Science degree in Civil Engineering at Aalborg University.
(http://www.civil.aau.dk/)
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| Occupation |
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| 2008
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Director of the Centre for 3D GeoInformation. (http://www.3dgi.dk).
After Lars Bodum had directed this lab since its start in 2001 he chose to be vice head in our department which gave me the opportunity to succeed him. At the moment the number of staff members is increasing due to project funding's. Please visit the centres own web page for more information. |
| 2000
- 2007 |
Director
of the VR Media Lab. (http://www.vrmedialab.dk).
I have been directing the VR Media Lab trough 8 years. The Lab was primarily a facilitator for research and exploration within the domain of virtual reality. When the lab was inaugurated it held the largest collection of VR related equipment like a 6-sided CAVE and a Panorama. For more information about the lab please use the link provided in the headline. |
| 1997
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Associate
Professor in road design and GIS. Teaching road design
and GIS on different semesters. In the field of GIS I focused
on basic GIS-skills and grid-based GIS whereas the research
part is focusing on 3D GIS. |
| 1994
- 1997 |
Assistant
Professor in road design at Aalborg University. Teaching
road design and CAD in general. During my Ph.D. studies and
the period as an assistant professor I focused more and more
on the use of GIS and 3D modelling. I left the area of core road
design as a research field during this period. |
| 1991
- 1994 |
Ph.D.
Student at Aalborg University. In the same period I
did a lot of teaching and worked as a consultant for the Consulting
company Rambøll and for the County of North Jutland.
My consultancies were given in regards to the Novapoint CAD
system and geometrical road design. |
| 1989
- 1991 |
Secondary
to my work at the County of North Jutland I worked as a teaching
assistant in road design at Aalborg University. |
| 1988
- 1991 |
Working
as a civil engineer with road design at the
County of North Jutland. I designed and carried out all kinds
of projects from small bicycle lanes through cities and open
land areas to 4 lane highways. A lot of the assignments were
adjustments of existing roads ex. widening the road or mending
curved alignments. I also designed a lot of cross-roads and
roundabouts. During this period I started working with CAD for
road design and 3D landscape modelling. |
| 1982
- 1987 |
Study period
at Aalborg University |
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| Research |
Please
refer to my research page |
| Publications |
Please
refer to my list
of publications |
| Teaching |
Please
refer to my lecture page |
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| Obligations
in General |
In my
job as the director of the VR Media Lab I quite often do some
consulting regarding companies who want to start up with interactive
3D. The consulting concerns data-acquisition for 3D modelling,
software-demands and possibilities, display systems and databases.
Furthermore I give lectures and keynotes on seminars, workshops
and some times conferences where these aspects are an issue.
This job actually takes a whole lot of my time for administration
due to staff meetings, project meetings etc. but I do also
have normal university obligations like:
- Project work (I am participating in 2 just started projects right now)
- Supervising Ph.D. students
- Ph.D. Assesments
- Chairman at Ph.D. defenses
- A lot of teaching and study board work
- Developing new teaching-courses
- I recently participated in starting two new research centre’s
- Writing a bunch of applications for research-funding
- And for instance implementing new technology and keeping
pace with
the continuous and fast development of software used in the
office and
most of all technical software used for teaching.
- Learning Java programming
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| Spare
Time |
In
the earlier days I played a lot of Volleyball on the highest
level in Denmark. My knees forced me to stop, so I coached quite
successfully for some years, but stopped than finally when my
daughter was born. I
do some long run biking now and then, but would like to do
it a lot more. I swim 1km two times a week before I go to
work, and do some spinning every Friday.
I am a
member of the school board at my children's school. I am the
head of our local association of house owners and I join a
group of volunteers at our local newspaper which is printed
every second month. |
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