Rate My Professor Søren Ulstrup

Ulstrup's research focuses on the electronic properties of two-dimensional crystals, devices, and quantum materials, probed on nanometer length scales and femtosecond time scales using synchrotron radiation and ultrafast laser sources. His expertise encompasses condensed matter physics, experimental physics, 2D materials, quantum materials, photoemission spectroscopy, twistronics, van der Waals heterostructures, graphene, and transition metal dichalcogenides. He has secured major funding, including the ERC Consolidator Grant (2024–2029), Novo Nordisk Foundation Project Grant (2023–2026), Sapere Aude Starting Grant (2020–2024), Gerhard Ertl Young Investigator Award (2019), membership in The Young Academy of Science (2019–2024), Villum Young Investigator Grant (2017–2022), and Ph.D. awards from the Danish Natural Sciences Academy and Aarhus University Research Foundation (both 2015). Notable publications include 'Direct View of Hot Carrier Dynamics in Graphene' (Physical Review Letters, 2013; 476 citations), 'Oxygen Switching of the Epitaxial Graphene–Metal Interaction' (ACS Nano, 2012; 263 citations), 'Emergence of a Metal–Insulator Transition and High-Temperature Charge-Density Waves in VSe2 at the Monolayer Limit' (Nano Letters, 2018; 258 citations), 'Electronic Structure of Epitaxial Single-Layer' (Physical Review Letters, 2015; 206 citations), and recent works like 'Electric Field-Induced Hole- and Electron-Type Flat Bands in Twisted Double Bilayer Graphene' (Advanced Electronic Materials, 2026). With over 4,500 citations, Ulstrup has delivered public lectures such as Science Slam 2022 and serves on academic committees, advancing nanoscale photoemission techniques.