Sven Erik Jørgensen

In 1958, he was awarded Master of Science in chemical engineering from the Technical University of Denmark, then Doctor of Environmental Engineerin (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology) and Doctor of Science in ecological modelling (University of Copenhagen).

[citation needed] He was an honourable doctor at Coimbra University, Portugal and at University of Dar es Salaam, Tanzania He received several awards: Ruđer Bošković award, Prigogine Prize, Blaise Pascal Medal, Einstein professorship at the Chinese Academy of Sciences and the Santa Chiara Prize for multidisciplinary teaching.

[4] He published 366 papers of which 275 were in peer-reviewed international journals, and edited or authored 76 books, of which several have been translated into other languages (Chinese, Russian, Spanish, and Portuguese).

[5] He was the editorial board member of 18 international journals in the fields of ecology and environmental management.

[7] Stockholm Water Prize, 2004 for the pioneering development and global dissemination of ecological models of lakes and wetlands, widely applied as effective tools in sustainable water resource management by the University of Copenhagen School of Pharmaceutical Sciences in Dermank.