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| Name | Simon Olling Rebsdorf |
| Academic title(s) | PhD, MSc, Journalist |
| Institute | Danish Museum of Energy |
| Function | Director |
| Address | Bjerringbrovej 44 |
| Zip code | DK-8840 |
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| Phone | +4561517714 |
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| Short biography | Simon Olling Rebsdorf, PhD, is Director of Energimuseet (the Danish Museum of Energy), Bjerringbro, Denmark. He holds a PhD in Science Studies from Aarhus University (2004), an MSc in theoretical physics from the Niels Bohr Institute, a BSc in physics from the University of Copenhagen, and a Higher National Diploma in Journalism. His doctoral work included a research visit to the University of Chicago. His career has spanned research, science communication, and higher education leadership: he has served as Head of R&D and Assistant Professor at VIA University College, as Head of ESERO Denmark (the European Space Agency’s Education Resource Office) and Senior Consultant/project manager at the House of Natural Sciences, as publishing editor at Aarhus University Press, and as a postdoctoral fellow in Science and Technology Studies at Aarhus University. Since 2014, he has served as an appointed external examiner (censor) at Danish universities in physics, philosophy and history of science. His research and writing engage with science education and didactics, and the history and philosophy of science, including earlier work on the philosophy and phenomenology of time. |
| Recent publications | Selected publications Rebsdorf, S. O. (2005). The Father, the Son, and the Stars: Bengt Strömgren and the History of Twentieth Century Astronomy in Denmark and in the USA. Lambert Academic Publishing.
Rebsdorf, S. O. (2003). “Bengt Strömgren: Growing up with astronomy, 1908–1932.” Journal for the History of Astronomy, 34(2), 171–199.
Rebsdorf, S. O. (2007). “Bengt Strömgren: Interstellar Glow, Helium Content, and Solar Life Supply, 1932–1940.” Centaurus, 49(1), 56–79.
Kragh, H. S., & Rebsdorf, S. O. (2002). “Before cosmophysics: E.A. Milne on mathematics and physics.” Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part B: Studies in History and Philosophy of Modern Physics, 33(1), 35–50.
Rebsdorf, S. O., & Kragh, H. S. (2002). “Edward Arthur Milne – The relations of mathematics to science.” Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part B: Studies in History and Philosophy of Modern Physics, 33(1), 51–64.
Rebsdorf, S. O. (2007). “Bengt G. S. Strömgren (1908–1987).” In N. Koertge (Ed.), New Dictionary of Scientific Biography. Detroit: Charles Scribner’s Sons.
Rebsdorf, S. O. (2006). “Det lille land og big science.” In H. Nielsen & K. H. Nielsen (Eds.), Viden Uden Grænser – Dansk Naturvidenskabs Historie, 1920–1970 (Vol. 4, pp. 303–319). Aarhus: Aarhus Universitetsforlag.
Rebsdorf, S. O. (2004). “Dynamisk og statisk tid i Milnes kosmofysik.” In J.-K. B. Olsen (Ed.), Tid – fysiske, filosofiske og videnskabsteoretiske perspektiver (pp. 147–169). København: Samfundslitteratur.
Carlsen, M. H., & Rebsdorf, S. O. (2025). “Viden om samarbejde mellem grundskoler og virksomheder i Danmark – et overblik over litteraturen.” Mona, (2), 28–50. |
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| Additional research interests | Philosophy and ethics of science; communication of science; futurology |