{"id":87137,"date":"2019-06-06T06:51:09","date_gmt":"2019-06-06T04:51:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/uniavisen.dk\/prominente-forskere-deler-deres-flyvaner-jeg-hader-saadan-set-at-flyve\/"},"modified":"2019-06-06T09:46:10","modified_gmt":"2019-06-06T07:46:10","slug":"leading-academics-share-their-flying-habits-basically-i-hate-flying","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/uniavisen.dk\/en\/leading-academics-share-their-flying-habits-basically-i-hate-flying\/","title":{"rendered":"Leading academics share their flying habits: \u00bbBasically, I hate flying\u00ab"},"content":{"rendered":"

The University of Copenhagen\u2019s plans to reduce the amount of flying done by faculty is, at best, a defensive measure.<\/p>\n

To be sure, the school\u2019s Green Campus 2020<\/a> sustainability strategy calls for a 65% reduction in carbon-dioxide emissions from transport per full-time equivalent, compared with 2006 levels, but the target for air travel is to limit emissions to a 1% annual increase \u2014 this, in light of the fact that 90% of the university\u2019s carbon pollution stems from air travel.<\/p>\n

Academics fly a lot. A real lot. For the administration, that means making some hard choices about how far the school should go to keep faculty and staff on the ground.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s something of a no-win situation for the university. On the one hand, it wants to be a leading international academic institution that increasingly collaborates with universities abroad. But, on the other hand, it has an obligation to reduce its carbon emissions on all fronts. Jens Friis Lund, a professor of political ecology, has gone so far as to suggest that the school has a \u00bbparticular obligation\u00ab<\/a> to address the effects of global warming.<\/p>\n

The administration\u2019s proposal is still forthcoming. In the meantime, we\u2019ve asked some of the university\u2019s most widely cited faculty members \u2014 all of whom participate in the types of partnerships the university would like to see more of \u2014 what they\u2019ve done to reduce the amount of flying they do, and what they feel needs to be done if they are to be able to bring it down further.
\n<\/p>\n

Jens Lundgren, Professor of Viral Disease<\/h2>\n

\u00bbI\u2019m sick of flying, so I would really like to do it less, but I can\u2019t, since it would give my foreign competitors an advantage. If I could, I\u2019d rather just go to my summerhouse. In and of itself, flying has no redeeming characteristics.\u00ab<\/p>\n

\u00bbI\u2019ve used video conferencing, and it is a viable option in some instances, but there\u2019s no replacement for being there and meeting your peers \u2014 and your competitors. You understand people in a whole different way when you can look them in the eye.\u00ab<\/p>\n

\u00bbInternational partnerships don\u2019t come from nothing, and it\u2019s pretty na\u00efve to think that you can limit the amount of flying people do without it having any consequences. You need to be a step ahead of the competition, and you can only do that if you travel.\u00ab<\/p>\n

\u00bbIt hurts the quality of my articles if I co-author them with people I hardly know. That\u2019s why I only get involved in research projects with people I know personally, and have met in person. Meeting someone and establishing a relationship is an important part of modern academic work, which often involves publishing papers that have a long list of co-authors.\u00ab<\/p>\n

I don\u2019t work 70 or 80 hours a week for the fun of it. I\u2019m searching for the truth, and I think we should be careful not to make life more difficult for people by coming up with all sorts of rules.<\/p>\n

Jens Lundgreen, Professor<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

\u00bbWhen I was a young doctor, I spent a summer driving around Europe in a VW Polo, visiting people I worked with. Some of the meetings I held that summer laid the foundation for relationships that I still have today. It was a good investment \u2014 even though my wife might have a different opinion. You need to remember that we\u2019re working with other people.\u00ab<\/p>\n

\u00bbSome people will no doubt able to get away with flying less, and the rules they implement won\u2019t be a problem in some cases, but we also need to make sure that we don\u2019t take people\u2019s initiative away from them. I don\u2019t work 70 or 80 hours a week for the fun of it. I\u2019m searching for the truth, and I think we should be careful not to make life more difficult for people by coming up with all sorts of rules.\u00ab
\n<\/p>\n

Arne Astrup, department head, Department of Nutrition, Exercise and Sport<\/h2>\n

\u00bbThere are a lot of things we can do at the University of Copenhagen to address climate change, which is why the administration is working to come up with a climate strategy.\u00ab<\/p>\n

\u00bbLimiting how much academics can fly creates some problems; meeting other academics is an important way for us to keep research moving forward.\u00ab<\/p>\n

A few years ago, I held a series of lectures in Israel by video. It worked fine, and as the technology has improved, its potential has grown.<\/p>\n

Arne Astrup, department head<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

\u00bbPersonally, I have cut back on the amount of international travel I do, and begun using things like Skype more. If someone invites me to hold a lecture, I recommend someone to them who lives closer. A few years ago, I held a series of lectures in Israel by video. It worked fine, and as the technology has improved, its potential has grown. In addition to reducing greenhouse-gas emissions, travelling less saves time and money, but that comes at the expense of personal relationships.\u00ab
\n<\/p>\n

Merete Nordentoft, Professor of Psychiatry<\/h2>\n

\u00bbI fly a lot. I never fly domestically, and I try to fly as little as possible in Europe, but only rarely do I succeed. I took the train from Paris to Basel not so long ago, but otherwise traveling by train isn\u2019t a viable alternative to flying given all the transfers and longer travel time.\u00ab<\/p>\n

\u00bbI fly a lot in connection with appearances I\u2019ve been invited to make. I need to accept them; it\u2019s a part of my work.\u00ab<\/p>\n

\u00bbI don\u2019t think it\u2019s easy [to cut back on flying without it having an impact on research]. For example, I needed to attend a conference in Warsaw. By train, the trip takes ten hours and by plane, it takes an hour and ten minutes (not including travel time to the airport and check-in time, ed). I just couldn\u2019t spend that much time on travel. When a conference requires that I be there in person, there\u2019s no other option.\u00ab<\/p>\n

The other day we had a problem with the sound that meant whenever anyone spoke it was accompanied by a high-pitched whining. I hope that teleconferencing gets easier as the technology improves.<\/p>\n

Merete Nordentoft, Professor of Psychiatry<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

\u00bbI am a part of a European consortium for the time being. We teleconference and video conference using Skype, but that\u2019s not optimal. Improved technology would make a difference. Even just a meeting between someone in Aarhus and someone in Copenhagen requires a lot of fine tuning before you can get started. The other day we had a problem with the sound that meant whenever anyone spoke it was accompanied by a high-pitched whining. I hope that teleconferencing gets easier as the technology improves.\u00ab<\/p>\n

\u00bbVideo conferencing is adequate for much of what I need to accomplish with my research partners. I agree that you need to know the people you are working with, but once you\u2019ve met them you can often skip meeting them in person. Just recently I had a Skype conference with two of my partners in London who I know well. Things went fine, even though we were meeting to sort out a serious issue.\u00ab<\/p>\n

\u00bbWhat would make the biggest difference would be a high-speed rail network throughout all of Europe. I would never fly to the Netherlands if I could get there by train in under six hours. Instead, I\u2019d sit comfortably on the train and work on an article. I\u2019d also take a night train to Paris, if there was one.\u00ab<\/p>\n

\u00bbBasically, I hate flying. It\u2019s stressful and you can\u2019t get comfortable. You don\u2019t expect you\u2019ll be delayed, but, in reality, anything can happen. I remember once I had to sleep on a bench in Madrid because my flight was cancelled.\u00ab<\/p>\n

\u00bbIf there were a limit on the amount I could fly, I might very well be affected by it. Last month I did an extreme amount of travelling; I had appearances in five different countries. If the limit had been in place I wouldn\u2019t have been able to make those appearances. I\u2019d find that hard to accept. It\u2019s important to build up your network, partner with new people and make a name for yourself in your field.\u00ab
\n<\/p>\n

Lars Juhl Jensen, Group Leader, Disease Systems Biology Programme<\/h2>\n

\u00bbI generally travel for one of four different reasons:\u00ab<\/p>\n

\u00bb1. To take part in grant meetings. As a Horizon 2020<\/secret> and NIH<\/secret> grant recipient, I\u2019m expected to attend an annual meeting for each grant. I can send someone on my behalf, but that would do absolutely nothing to reduce the environmental impact.\u00ab<\/p>\n

\u00bb2. To participate as an invited speaker at conferences. I, as a professional, as well as the centre where I work, am judged, in part, on how often we are invited to speak. So these are offers I can\u2019t refuse.\u00ab<\/p>\n

All of my course material is publicly available, so if someone wants to run one of my classes without me, they are more than welcome to.<\/p>\n

Lars Juhl Jensen, Group Leader<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

\u00bb3. To teach PhD and post-doc classes abroad. Some of the classes I teach are held in some pretty hard-to-reach places in South America, Africa and India.\u00ab<\/p>\n

\u00bbOne of the main reasons for holding the classes is precisely that it makes much more sense to fly a handful of experts to where the students are than it would be to fly a big group of PhD and post-doctoral students to Europe or the US. This is practical, hands-on instruction, not something you can teach in on-line lectures. All of my course material is publicly available, so if someone wants to run one of my classes without me, they are more than welcome to.\u00ab<\/p>\n

\u00bb4. To participate in evaluation panels. This involves either evaluating applications for funding or being an opponent when someone is defending a dissertation. When funding is allocated in a country \u2014 take Germany, for example \u2014 it\u2019s often the case that people have conflicts of interest, since they themselves are applying for funding. Someone needs to decide who gets funded, so they wind up bringing in people from other countries. Honestly, I\u2019d be happy not to have to take on the extra work, but, when it comes to defending dissertations at least, most universities require that one of the opponents comes from another country.\u00ab<\/p>\n

\u00bbOn top of that there is normally an annual conference in my field (and during which I typically make a presentation). It is held in the US one year, and in Europe the next. In addition, I typically travel about twice a year to meet with my closest European partners.\u00ab<\/p>\n

\u00bbThere isn\u2019t much I can do to cut back on how much I fly. In the past, I almost always took the night train and slept in a sleeping car when I travelled to my meetings in southern Germany. I found that was preferable to spending half a day travelling each way, and having to stay an extra night or two at a hotel. But that night train doesn\u2019t run anymore.\u00ab<\/p>\n

\u00bbI try to combine trips, when possible. In January, for example, I held a lecture in Hungary that I was able to combine with some teaching I did at a PhD winter school in southern Poland. Last month, while I was on my way to a conference at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, I visited someone in New York I am submitting an application with. And, later this year, I\u2019m scheduled to give a lecture in Berlin the day after I take part in a panel evaluating funding applications.\u00ab<\/p>\n

\u00bbThe other thing I do is take a day or two off when I travel someplace on business. That means that I sometimes don\u2019t fly on holiday for several years at a stretch.\u00ab
\n<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Some of the University of Copenhagen\u2019s most cited scholars reckon that placing a limit on how much faculty may fly will affect their research<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":67,"featured_media":85868,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[48],"tags":[1779,1055,380],"class_list":["post-87137","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics","tag-air-travel","tag-climate-change","tag-sustainability","expression-feature_article"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"yoast_head":"\nLeading academics share their flying habits: \u00bbBasically, I hate flying\u00ab<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"K\u00f8benhavns Universitet skal overveje, om de vil stramme flypolitikken i en ny gr\u00f8n strategi. Nogle af universitetets mest citerede forskere siger dog, at de f\u00e5r sv\u00e6rt ved at overholde et loft over flyrejser, uden at det vil h\u00e6mme deres forskning.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/uniavisen.dk\/en\/leading-academics-share-their-flying-habits-basically-i-hate-flying\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Leading academics share their flying habits: \u00bbBasically, I hate flying\u00ab\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"K\u00f8benhavns Universitet skal overveje, om de vil stramme flypolitikken i en ny gr\u00f8n strategi. Nogle af universitetets mest citerede forskere siger dog, at de f\u00e5r sv\u00e6rt ved at overholde et loft over flyrejser, uden at det vil h\u00e6mme deres forskning.\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/uniavisen.dk\/en\/leading-academics-share-their-flying-habits-basically-i-hate-flying\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"University Post\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/uniavis\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2019-06-06T04:51:09+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2019-06-06T07:46:10+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/uniavisen.dk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/istock1134557406.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"1256\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"835\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Rasmus Friis\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:creator\" content=\"@Uniavisen\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:site\" content=\"@Uniavisen\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Rasmus Friis\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"10 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\\\/\\\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/uniavisen.dk\\\/en\\\/leading-academics-share-their-flying-habits-basically-i-hate-flying\\\/#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/uniavisen.dk\\\/en\\\/leading-academics-share-their-flying-habits-basically-i-hate-flying\\\/\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"Rasmus Friis\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/uniavisen.dk\\\/#\\\/schema\\\/person\\\/e02d6b9868f21687575cf05cd4f8d010\"},\"headline\":\"Leading academics share their flying habits: \u00bbBasically, I hate flying\u00ab\",\"datePublished\":\"2019-06-06T04:51:09+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2019-06-06T07:46:10+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/uniavisen.dk\\\/en\\\/leading-academics-share-their-flying-habits-basically-i-hate-flying\\\/\"},\"wordCount\":2008,\"commentCount\":0,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/uniavisen.dk\\\/en\\\/leading-academics-share-their-flying-habits-basically-i-hate-flying\\\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\\\/\\\/uniavisen.dk\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/2019\\\/05\\\/istock1134557406.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"air travel\",\"Climate change\",\"sustainability\"],\"articleSection\":[\"Politics\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/uniavisen.dk\\\/en\\\/leading-academics-share-their-flying-habits-basically-i-hate-flying\\\/\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/uniavisen.dk\\\/en\\\/leading-academics-share-their-flying-habits-basically-i-hate-flying\\\/\",\"name\":\"Leading academics share their flying habits: \u00bbBasically, I hate flying\u00ab\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/uniavisen.dk\\\/#website\"},\"primaryImageOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/uniavisen.dk\\\/en\\\/leading-academics-share-their-flying-habits-basically-i-hate-flying\\\/#primaryimage\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/uniavisen.dk\\\/en\\\/leading-academics-share-their-flying-habits-basically-i-hate-flying\\\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\\\/\\\/uniavisen.dk\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/2019\\\/05\\\/istock1134557406.jpg\",\"datePublished\":\"2019-06-06T04:51:09+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2019-06-06T07:46:10+00:00\",\"author\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/uniavisen.dk\\\/#\\\/schema\\\/person\\\/e02d6b9868f21687575cf05cd4f8d010\"},\"description\":\"K\u00f8benhavns Universitet skal overveje, om de vil stramme flypolitikken i en ny gr\u00f8n strategi. Nogle af universitetets mest citerede forskere siger dog, at de f\u00e5r sv\u00e6rt ved at overholde et loft over flyrejser, uden at det vil h\u00e6mme deres forskning.\",\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/uniavisen.dk\\\/en\\\/leading-academics-share-their-flying-habits-basically-i-hate-flying\\\/#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\\\/\\\/uniavisen.dk\\\/en\\\/leading-academics-share-their-flying-habits-basically-i-hate-flying\\\/\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/uniavisen.dk\\\/en\\\/leading-academics-share-their-flying-habits-basically-i-hate-flying\\\/#primaryimage\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/uniavisen.dk\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/2019\\\/05\\\/istock1134557406.jpg\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\\\/\\\/uniavisen.dk\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/2019\\\/05\\\/istock1134557406.jpg\",\"width\":1256,\"height\":835,\"caption\":\"Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Spain - December 13, 2018: Rows of yellow passenger seats inside the Boeing 737 aircraft, operated by Ryanair\"},{\"@type\":\"BreadcrumbList\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/uniavisen.dk\\\/en\\\/leading-academics-share-their-flying-habits-basically-i-hate-flying\\\/#breadcrumb\",\"itemListElement\":[{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":1,\"name\":\"Home\",\"item\":\"https:\\\/\\\/uniavisen.dk\\\/en\\\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":2,\"name\":\"Leading academics share their flying habits: \u00bbBasically, I hate flying\u00ab\"}]},{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/uniavisen.dk\\\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/uniavisen.dk\\\/\",\"name\":\"University Post\",\"description\":\"Independent of management\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"SearchAction\",\"target\":{\"@type\":\"EntryPoint\",\"urlTemplate\":\"https:\\\/\\\/uniavisen.dk\\\/?s={search_term_string}\"},\"query-input\":{\"@type\":\"PropertyValueSpecification\",\"valueRequired\":true,\"valueName\":\"search_term_string\"}}],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"Person\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/uniavisen.dk\\\/#\\\/schema\\\/person\\\/e02d6b9868f21687575cf05cd4f8d010\",\"name\":\"Rasmus Friis\",\"image\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/secure.gravatar.com\\\/avatar\\\/5e63c8484da290a4fdf7a435d972fda1c53e6da4cc7cd9a6e440cb0f28061d48?s=96&d=identicon&r=g\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/secure.gravatar.com\\\/avatar\\\/5e63c8484da290a4fdf7a435d972fda1c53e6da4cc7cd9a6e440cb0f28061d48?s=96&d=identicon&r=g\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\\\/\\\/secure.gravatar.com\\\/avatar\\\/5e63c8484da290a4fdf7a435d972fda1c53e6da4cc7cd9a6e440cb0f28061d48?s=96&d=identicon&r=g\",\"caption\":\"Rasmus Friis\"},\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/uniavisen.dk\\\/en\\\/author\\\/rasmus\\\/\"}]}<\/script>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO plugin. -->","yoast_head_json":{"title":"Leading academics share their flying habits: \u00bbBasically, I hate flying\u00ab","description":"K\u00f8benhavns Universitet skal overveje, om de vil stramme flypolitikken i en ny gr\u00f8n strategi. Nogle af universitetets mest citerede forskere siger dog, at de f\u00e5r sv\u00e6rt ved at overholde et loft over flyrejser, uden at det vil h\u00e6mme deres forskning.","robots":{"index":"index","follow":"follow","max-snippet":"max-snippet:-1","max-image-preview":"max-image-preview:large","max-video-preview":"max-video-preview:-1"},"canonical":"https:\/\/uniavisen.dk\/en\/leading-academics-share-their-flying-habits-basically-i-hate-flying\/","og_locale":"en_US","og_type":"article","og_title":"Leading academics share their flying habits: \u00bbBasically, I hate flying\u00ab","og_description":"K\u00f8benhavns Universitet skal overveje, om de vil stramme flypolitikken i en ny gr\u00f8n strategi. Nogle af universitetets mest citerede forskere siger dog, at de f\u00e5r sv\u00e6rt ved at overholde et loft over flyrejser, uden at det vil h\u00e6mme deres forskning.","og_url":"https:\/\/uniavisen.dk\/en\/leading-academics-share-their-flying-habits-basically-i-hate-flying\/","og_site_name":"University Post","article_publisher":"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/uniavis","article_published_time":"2019-06-06T04:51:09+00:00","article_modified_time":"2019-06-06T07:46:10+00:00","og_image":[{"width":1256,"height":835,"url":"https:\/\/uniavisen.dk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/istock1134557406.jpg","type":"image\/jpeg"}],"author":"Rasmus Friis","twitter_card":"summary_large_image","twitter_creator":"@Uniavisen","twitter_site":"@Uniavisen","twitter_misc":{"Written by":"Rasmus Friis","Est. reading time":"10 minutes"},"schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Article","@id":"https:\/\/uniavisen.dk\/en\/leading-academics-share-their-flying-habits-basically-i-hate-flying\/#article","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/uniavisen.dk\/en\/leading-academics-share-their-flying-habits-basically-i-hate-flying\/"},"author":{"name":"Rasmus Friis","@id":"https:\/\/uniavisen.dk\/#\/schema\/person\/e02d6b9868f21687575cf05cd4f8d010"},"headline":"Leading academics share their flying habits: \u00bbBasically, I hate flying\u00ab","datePublished":"2019-06-06T04:51:09+00:00","dateModified":"2019-06-06T07:46:10+00:00","mainEntityOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/uniavisen.dk\/en\/leading-academics-share-their-flying-habits-basically-i-hate-flying\/"},"wordCount":2008,"commentCount":0,"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/uniavisen.dk\/en\/leading-academics-share-their-flying-habits-basically-i-hate-flying\/#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/uniavisen.dk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/istock1134557406.jpg","keywords":["air travel","Climate change","sustainability"],"articleSection":["Politics"],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https:\/\/uniavisen.dk\/en\/leading-academics-share-their-flying-habits-basically-i-hate-flying\/","url":"https:\/\/uniavisen.dk\/en\/leading-academics-share-their-flying-habits-basically-i-hate-flying\/","name":"Leading academics share their flying habits: \u00bbBasically, I hate flying\u00ab","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/uniavisen.dk\/#website"},"primaryImageOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/uniavisen.dk\/en\/leading-academics-share-their-flying-habits-basically-i-hate-flying\/#primaryimage"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/uniavisen.dk\/en\/leading-academics-share-their-flying-habits-basically-i-hate-flying\/#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/uniavisen.dk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/istock1134557406.jpg","datePublished":"2019-06-06T04:51:09+00:00","dateModified":"2019-06-06T07:46:10+00:00","author":{"@id":"https:\/\/uniavisen.dk\/#\/schema\/person\/e02d6b9868f21687575cf05cd4f8d010"},"description":"K\u00f8benhavns Universitet skal overveje, om de vil stramme flypolitikken i en ny gr\u00f8n strategi. Nogle af universitetets mest citerede forskere siger dog, at de f\u00e5r sv\u00e6rt ved at overholde et loft over flyrejser, uden at det vil h\u00e6mme deres forskning.","breadcrumb":{"@id":"https:\/\/uniavisen.dk\/en\/leading-academics-share-their-flying-habits-basically-i-hate-flying\/#breadcrumb"},"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"ReadAction","target":["https:\/\/uniavisen.dk\/en\/leading-academics-share-their-flying-habits-basically-i-hate-flying\/"]}]},{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/uniavisen.dk\/en\/leading-academics-share-their-flying-habits-basically-i-hate-flying\/#primaryimage","url":"https:\/\/uniavisen.dk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/istock1134557406.jpg","contentUrl":"https:\/\/uniavisen.dk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/istock1134557406.jpg","width":1256,"height":835,"caption":"Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Spain - December 13, 2018: Rows of yellow passenger seats inside the Boeing 737 aircraft, operated by Ryanair"},{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","@id":"https:\/\/uniavisen.dk\/en\/leading-academics-share-their-flying-habits-basically-i-hate-flying\/#breadcrumb","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https:\/\/uniavisen.dk\/en\/"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"Leading academics share their flying habits: \u00bbBasically, I hate flying\u00ab"}]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https:\/\/uniavisen.dk\/#website","url":"https:\/\/uniavisen.dk\/","name":"University Post","description":"Independent of management","potentialAction":[{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https:\/\/uniavisen.dk\/?s={search_term_string}"},"query-input":{"@type":"PropertyValueSpecification","valueRequired":true,"valueName":"search_term_string"}}],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"Person","@id":"https:\/\/uniavisen.dk\/#\/schema\/person\/e02d6b9868f21687575cf05cd4f8d010","name":"Rasmus Friis","image":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/5e63c8484da290a4fdf7a435d972fda1c53e6da4cc7cd9a6e440cb0f28061d48?s=96&d=identicon&r=g","url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/5e63c8484da290a4fdf7a435d972fda1c53e6da4cc7cd9a6e440cb0f28061d48?s=96&d=identicon&r=g","contentUrl":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/5e63c8484da290a4fdf7a435d972fda1c53e6da4cc7cd9a6e440cb0f28061d48?s=96&d=identicon&r=g","caption":"Rasmus Friis"},"url":"https:\/\/uniavisen.dk\/en\/author\/rasmus\/"}]}},"advancedCustomFields":{"expression":{"term_id":18,"name":"Feature Article","slug":"feature_article","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":18,"taxonomy":"expression","description":"","parent":0,"count":1200,"filter":"raw"},"enable_comments":true,"align_content":"alignleft","feature_color":"","layout_group":[{"acf_fc_layout":"Headline","use_post_title":true,"headline":"","style":"default","highlighted_words":"","text_size":"small"},{"acf_fc_layout":"Image","image":{"ID":58848,"id":58848,"title":"Merete Nordentoft","filename":"meretenordentoft.jpg","filesize":186948,"url":"https:\/\/uniavisen.dk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/meretenordentoft.jpg","link":"https:\/\/uniavisen.dk\/en\/12-ku-forskere-paa-liste-verdens-mest-indflydelsesrige-videnskabsfolk\/merete-nordentoft\/","alt":"nordentoft","author":"7","description":"","caption":"Merete Nordentoft siger, at hun langt foretr\u00e6kker at k\u00f8re i tog. Men hun erstatter kun sj\u00e6ldent fly med tog p\u00e5 europ\u00e6iske arbejdsrejser, fordi jernbaneforbindelserne er elendige.","name":"merete-nordentoft","status":"inherit","uploaded_to":58838,"date":"2017-11-15 22:30:05","modified":"2019-05-09 06:55:08","menu_order":0,"mime_type":"image\/jpeg","type":"image","subtype":"jpeg","icon":"https:\/\/uniavisen.dk\/wp-includes\/images\/media\/default.png","width":1500,"height":1001,"sizes":{"thumbnail":"https:\/\/uniavisen.dk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/meretenordentoft-150x150.jpg","thumbnail-width":150,"thumbnail-height":150,"medium":"https:\/\/uniavisen.dk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/meretenordentoft-480x320.jpg","medium-width":480,"medium-height":320,"medium_large":"https:\/\/uniavisen.dk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/meretenordentoft-768x513.jpg","medium_large-width":768,"medium_large-height":513,"large":"https:\/\/uniavisen.dk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/meretenordentoft-1280x854.jpg","large-width":1280,"large-height":854,"1536x1536":"https:\/\/uniavisen.dk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/meretenordentoft.jpg","1536x1536-width":1500,"1536x1536-height":1001,"2048x2048":"https:\/\/uniavisen.dk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/meretenordentoft.jpg","2048x2048-width":1500,"2048x2048-height":1001,"featured-soft":"https:\/\/uniavisen.dk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/meretenordentoft-290x194.jpg","featured-soft-width":290,"featured-soft-height":194,"featured-hard":"https:\/\/uniavisen.dk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/meretenordentoft-290x180.jpg","featured-hard-width":290,"featured-hard-height":180,"narrow":"https:\/\/uniavisen.dk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/meretenordentoft-700x467.jpg","narrow-width":700,"narrow-height":467,"extended":"https:\/\/uniavisen.dk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/meretenordentoft-990x661.jpg","extended-width":990,"extended-height":661}},"style":"extended","text_placement":"metadata-below","image_link_url":"","image_link_title":"","caption_prefix":"","enable_alternative_caption":true,"alternative_caption":"Psychology professor Merete Nordentoft would rather travel by train in Europe, but is prevented from doing so by inadequate service"},{"acf_fc_layout":"Standfirst","subject":"Climate change","text":"This is a story about what will follow","use_post_excerpt":true},{"acf_fc_layout":"Byline","is_author":true,"contributors":false},{"acf_fc_layout":"Content","content":"<p>The University of Copenhagen\u2019s plans to reduce the amount of flying done by faculty is, at best, a defensive measure.<\/p>\n<p>To be sure, the school\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/greencampus.ku.dk\/strategy2020\/\">Green Campus 2020<\/a> sustainability strategy calls for a 65% reduction in carbon-dioxide emissions from transport per full-time equivalent, compared with 2006 levels, but the target for air travel is to limit emissions to a 1% annual increase \u2014 this, in light of the fact that 90% of the university\u2019s carbon pollution stems from air travel.<\/p>\n<p>Academics fly a lot. A real lot. For the administration, that means making some hard choices about how far the school should go to keep faculty and staff on the ground.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s something of a no-win situation for the university. On the one hand, it wants to be a leading international academic institution that increasingly collaborates with universities abroad. But, on the other hand, it has an obligation to reduce its carbon emissions on all fronts. Jens Friis Lund, a professor of political ecology, has gone so far as to suggest that the school has a <a href=\"https:\/\/uniavisen.dk\/kus-groenne-omstilling-er-i-turbulens\/\">\u00bbparticular obligation\u00ab<\/a> to address the effects of global warming.<\/p>\n<p>The administration\u2019s proposal is still forthcoming. In the meantime, we\u2019ve asked some of the university\u2019s most widely cited faculty members \u2014 all of whom participate in the types of partnerships the university would like to see more of \u2014 what they\u2019ve done to reduce the amount of flying they do, and what they feel needs to be done if they are to be able to bring it down further.<\/p>\n"},{"acf_fc_layout":"Image","image":{"ID":85656,"id":85656,"title":"jens lundgren","filename":"jenslundgren.jpg","filesize":15758,"url":"https:\/\/uniavisen.dk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/jenslundgren.jpg","link":"https:\/\/uniavisen.dk\/en\/prominente-forskere-deler-deres-flyvaner-jeg-hader-saadan-set-at-flyve\/jens-lundgren\/","alt":"jens lundgren","author":"67","description":"","caption":"","name":"jens-lundgren","status":"inherit","uploaded_to":85654,"date":"2019-05-09 06:32:31","modified":"2019-05-09 06:44:55","menu_order":0,"mime_type":"image\/jpeg","type":"image","subtype":"jpeg","icon":"https:\/\/uniavisen.dk\/wp-includes\/images\/media\/default.png","width":538,"height":298,"sizes":{"thumbnail":"https:\/\/uniavisen.dk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/jenslundgren-150x150.jpg","thumbnail-width":150,"thumbnail-height":150,"medium":"https:\/\/uniavisen.dk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/jenslundgren-480x266.jpg","medium-width":480,"medium-height":266,"medium_large":"https:\/\/uniavisen.dk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/jenslundgren.jpg","medium_large-width":538,"medium_large-height":298,"large":"https:\/\/uniavisen.dk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/jenslundgren.jpg","large-width":538,"large-height":298,"1536x1536":"https:\/\/uniavisen.dk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/jenslundgren.jpg","1536x1536-width":538,"1536x1536-height":298,"2048x2048":"https:\/\/uniavisen.dk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/jenslundgren.jpg","2048x2048-width":538,"2048x2048-height":298,"featured-soft":"https:\/\/uniavisen.dk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/jenslundgren-290x161.jpg","featured-soft-width":290,"featured-soft-height":161,"featured-hard":"https:\/\/uniavisen.dk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/jenslundgren-290x180.jpg","featured-hard-width":290,"featured-hard-height":180,"narrow":"https:\/\/uniavisen.dk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/jenslundgren.jpg","narrow-width":538,"narrow-height":298,"extended":"https:\/\/uniavisen.dk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/jenslundgren.jpg","extended-width":538,"extended-height":298}},"style":"narrow","text_placement":"metadata-below","image_link_url":"","image_link_title":"","caption_prefix":"","enable_alternative_caption":false,"alternative_caption":""},{"acf_fc_layout":"Content","content":"<h2>Jens Lundgren, Professor of Viral Disease<\/h2>\n<p>\u00bbI\u2019m sick of flying, so I would really like to do it less, but I can\u2019t, since it would give my foreign competitors an advantage. If I could, I\u2019d rather just go to my summerhouse. In and of itself, flying has no redeeming characteristics.\u00ab<\/p>\n<p>\u00bbI\u2019ve used video conferencing, and it is a viable option in some instances, but there\u2019s no replacement for being there and meeting your peers \u2014 and your competitors. You understand people in a whole different way when you can look them in the eye.\u00ab<\/p>\n<p>\u00bbInternational partnerships don\u2019t come from nothing, and it\u2019s pretty na\u00efve to think that you can limit the amount of flying people do without it having any consequences. You need to be a step ahead of the competition, and you can only do that if you travel.\u00ab<\/p>\n<p>\u00bbIt hurts the quality of my articles if I co-author them with people I hardly know. That\u2019s why I only get involved in research projects with people I know personally, and have met in person. Meeting someone and establishing a relationship is an important part of modern academic work, which often involves publishing papers that have a long list of co-authors.\u00ab<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>I don\u2019t work 70 or 80 hours a week for the fun of it. I\u2019m searching for the truth, and I think we should be careful not to make life more difficult for people by coming up with all sorts of rules.<\/p>\n<p class=\"quotee\">Jens Lundgreen, Professor<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>\u00bbWhen I was a young doctor, I spent a summer driving around Europe in a VW Polo, visiting people I worked with. Some of the meetings I held that summer laid the foundation for relationships that I still have today. It was a good investment \u2014 even though my wife might have a different opinion. You need to remember that we\u2019re working with other people.\u00ab<\/p>\n<p>\u00bbSome people will no doubt able to get away with flying less, and the rules they implement won\u2019t be a problem in some cases, but we also need to make sure that we don\u2019t take people\u2019s initiative away from them. I don\u2019t work 70 or 80 hours a week for the fun of it. I\u2019m searching for the truth, and I think we should be careful not to make life more difficult for people by coming up with all sorts of rules.\u00ab<\/p>\n"},{"acf_fc_layout":"Image","image":{"ID":12498,"id":12498,"title":"tvaervidenskabelig_forskning_er_mere_end_at_dele_data_0-1","filename":"tvaervidenskabelig_forskning_er_mere_end_at_dele_data_0-1.jpg","filesize":36182,"url":"https:\/\/uniavisen.dk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/tvaervidenskabelig_forskning_er_mere_end_at_dele_data_0-1.jpg","link":"https:\/\/uniavisen.dk\/en\/response-interdisciplinary-research-is-more-than-sharing-data\/tvaervidenskabelig_forskning_er_mere_end_at_dele_data_0-1\/","alt":"","author":"0","description":" Arne Astrup","caption":" Arne Astrup","name":"tvaervidenskabelig_forskning_er_mere_end_at_dele_data_0-1","status":"inherit","uploaded_to":12495,"date":"2017-01-19 08:10:22","modified":"2019-05-09 06:30:19","menu_order":0,"mime_type":"image\/jpeg","type":"image","subtype":"jpeg","icon":"https:\/\/uniavisen.dk\/wp-includes\/images\/media\/default.png","width":930,"height":474,"sizes":{"thumbnail":"https:\/\/uniavisen.dk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/tvaervidenskabelig_forskning_er_mere_end_at_dele_data_0-1-150x150.jpg","thumbnail-width":150,"thumbnail-height":150,"medium":"https:\/\/uniavisen.dk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/tvaervidenskabelig_forskning_er_mere_end_at_dele_data_0-1-480x245.jpg","medium-width":480,"medium-height":245,"medium_large":"https:\/\/uniavisen.dk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/tvaervidenskabelig_forskning_er_mere_end_at_dele_data_0-1-768x391.jpg","medium_large-width":768,"medium_large-height":391,"large":"https:\/\/uniavisen.dk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/tvaervidenskabelig_forskning_er_mere_end_at_dele_data_0-1.jpg","large-width":930,"large-height":474,"1536x1536":"https:\/\/uniavisen.dk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/tvaervidenskabelig_forskning_er_mere_end_at_dele_data_0-1.jpg","1536x1536-width":930,"1536x1536-height":474,"2048x2048":"https:\/\/uniavisen.dk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/tvaervidenskabelig_forskning_er_mere_end_at_dele_data_0-1.jpg","2048x2048-width":930,"2048x2048-height":474,"featured-soft":"https:\/\/uniavisen.dk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/tvaervidenskabelig_forskning_er_mere_end_at_dele_data_0-1-290x148.jpg","featured-soft-width":290,"featured-soft-height":148,"featured-hard":"https:\/\/uniavisen.dk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/tvaervidenskabelig_forskning_er_mere_end_at_dele_data_0-1-290x180.jpg","featured-hard-width":290,"featured-hard-height":180,"narrow":"https:\/\/uniavisen.dk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/tvaervidenskabelig_forskning_er_mere_end_at_dele_data_0-1-700x357.jpg","narrow-width":700,"narrow-height":357,"extended":"https:\/\/uniavisen.dk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/tvaervidenskabelig_forskning_er_mere_end_at_dele_data_0-1.jpg","extended-width":930,"extended-height":474}},"style":"narrow","text_placement":"metadata-below","image_link_url":"","image_link_title":"","caption_prefix":"","enable_alternative_caption":false,"alternative_caption":""},{"acf_fc_layout":"Content","content":"<h2>Arne Astrup, department head, Department of Nutrition, Exercise and Sport<\/h2>\n<p>\u00bbThere are a lot of things we can do at the University of Copenhagen to address climate change, which is why the administration is working to come up with a climate strategy.\u00ab<\/p>\n<p>\u00bbLimiting how much academics can fly creates some problems; meeting other academics is an important way for us to keep research moving forward.\u00ab<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>A few years ago, I held a series of lectures in Israel by video. It worked fine, and as the technology has improved, its potential has grown.<\/p>\n<p class=\"quotee\">Arne Astrup, department head<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>\u00bbPersonally, I have cut back on the amount of international travel I do, and begun using things like Skype more. If someone invites me to hold a lecture, I recommend someone to them who lives closer. A few years ago, I held a series of lectures in Israel by video. It worked fine, and as the technology has improved, its potential has grown. In addition to reducing greenhouse-gas emissions, travelling less saves time and money, but that comes at the expense of personal relationships.\u00ab<\/p>\n"},{"acf_fc_layout":"Image","image":{"ID":77084,"id":77084,"title":"Merete Nordentoft foto","filename":"dsc0016dxomeretenordentoftweb.jpg","filesize":98273,"url":"https:\/\/uniavisen.dk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/dsc0016dxomeretenordentoftweb.jpg","link":"https:\/\/uniavisen.dk\/en\/udholdende-professor-har-dyrket-studenteridraet-i-40-aar\/dsc_0016_dxo-merete-nordentoft_web\/","alt":"Merete Nordentoft i Otto M\u00f8nsted idr\u00e6tshallen","author":"8","description":"Merete Nordentoft i Otto M\u00f8nsted idr\u00e6tshallen","caption":"","name":"dsc_0016_dxo-merete-nordentoft_web","status":"inherit","uploaded_to":77073,"date":"2018-11-05 09:55:07","modified":"2019-05-09 07:00:16","menu_order":0,"mime_type":"image\/jpeg","type":"image","subtype":"jpeg","icon":"https:\/\/uniavisen.dk\/wp-includes\/images\/media\/default.png","width":1600,"height":1067,"sizes":{"thumbnail":"https:\/\/uniavisen.dk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/dsc0016dxomeretenordentoftweb-150x150.jpg","thumbnail-width":150,"thumbnail-height":150,"medium":"https:\/\/uniavisen.dk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/dsc0016dxomeretenordentoftweb-480x320.jpg","medium-width":480,"medium-height":320,"medium_large":"https:\/\/uniavisen.dk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/dsc0016dxomeretenordentoftweb-768x512.jpg","medium_large-width":768,"medium_large-height":512,"large":"https:\/\/uniavisen.dk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/dsc0016dxomeretenordentoftweb-1280x854.jpg","large-width":1280,"large-height":854,"1536x1536":"https:\/\/uniavisen.dk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/dsc0016dxomeretenordentoftweb.jpg","1536x1536-width":1536,"1536x1536-height":1024,"2048x2048":"https:\/\/uniavisen.dk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/dsc0016dxomeretenordentoftweb.jpg","2048x2048-width":1600,"2048x2048-height":1067,"featured-soft":"https:\/\/uniavisen.dk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/dsc0016dxomeretenordentoftweb-290x193.jpg","featured-soft-width":290,"featured-soft-height":193,"featured-hard":"https:\/\/uniavisen.dk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/dsc0016dxomeretenordentoftweb-290x180.jpg","featured-hard-width":290,"featured-hard-height":180,"narrow":"https:\/\/uniavisen.dk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/dsc0016dxomeretenordentoftweb-700x467.jpg","narrow-width":700,"narrow-height":467,"extended":"https:\/\/uniavisen.dk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/dsc0016dxomeretenordentoftweb-990x660.jpg","extended-width":990,"extended-height":660}},"style":"narrow","text_placement":"metadata-below","image_link_url":"","image_link_title":"","caption_prefix":"","enable_alternative_caption":true,"alternative_caption":""},{"acf_fc_layout":"Content","content":"<h2>Merete Nordentoft, Professor of Psychiatry<\/h2>\n<p>\u00bbI fly a lot. I never fly domestically, and I try to fly as little as possible in Europe, but only rarely do I succeed. I took the train from Paris to Basel not so long ago, but otherwise traveling by train isn\u2019t a viable alternative to flying given all the transfers and longer travel time.\u00ab<\/p>\n<p>\u00bbI fly a lot in connection with appearances I\u2019ve been invited to make. I need to accept them; it\u2019s a part of my work.\u00ab<\/p>\n<p>\u00bbI don\u2019t think it\u2019s easy [to cut back on flying without it having an impact on research]. For example, I needed to attend a conference in Warsaw. By train, the trip takes ten hours and by plane, it takes an hour and ten minutes (not including travel time to the airport and check-in time, ed). I just couldn\u2019t spend that much time on travel. When a conference requires that I be there in person, there\u2019s no other option.\u00ab<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The other day we had a problem with the sound that meant whenever anyone spoke it was accompanied by a high-pitched whining. I hope that teleconferencing gets easier as the technology improves.<\/p>\n<p class=\"quotee\">Merete Nordentoft, Professor of Psychiatry<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>\u00bbI am a part of a European consortium for the time being. We teleconference and video conference using Skype, but that\u2019s not optimal. Improved technology would make a difference. Even just a meeting between someone in Aarhus and someone in Copenhagen requires a lot of fine tuning before you can get started. The other day we had a problem with the sound that meant whenever anyone spoke it was accompanied by a high-pitched whining. I hope that teleconferencing gets easier as the technology improves.\u00ab<\/p>\n<p>\u00bbVideo conferencing is adequate for much of what I need to accomplish with my research partners. I agree that you need to know the people you are working with, but once you\u2019ve met them you can often skip meeting them in person. Just recently I had a Skype conference with two of my partners in London who I know well. Things went fine, even though we were meeting to sort out a serious issue.\u00ab<\/p>\n<p>\u00bbWhat would make the biggest difference would be a high-speed rail network throughout all of Europe. I would never fly to the Netherlands if I could get there by train in under six hours. Instead, I\u2019d sit comfortably on the train and work on an article. I\u2019d also take a night train to Paris, if there was one.\u00ab<\/p>\n<p>\u00bbBasically, I hate flying. It\u2019s stressful and you can\u2019t get comfortable. You don\u2019t expect you\u2019ll be delayed, but, in reality, anything can happen. I remember once I had to sleep on a bench in Madrid because my flight was cancelled.\u00ab<\/p>\n<p>\u00bbIf there were a limit on the amount I could fly, I might very well be affected by it. Last month I did an extreme amount of travelling; I had appearances in five different countries. If the limit had been in place I wouldn\u2019t have been able to make those appearances. I\u2019d find that hard to accept. It\u2019s important to build up your network, partner with new people and make a name for yourself in your field.\u00ab<\/p>\n"},{"acf_fc_layout":"Image","image":{"ID":58847,"id":58847,"title":"Lars Juhl Jensen kopi","filename":"larsjuhljensenkopi.jpg","filesize":124377,"url":"https:\/\/uniavisen.dk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/larsjuhljensenkopi.jpg","link":"https:\/\/uniavisen.dk\/en\/12-ku-forskere-paa-liste-verdens-mest-indflydelsesrige-videnskabsfolk\/lars-juhl-jensen-kopi\/","alt":"","author":"7","description":"","caption":"","name":"lars-juhl-jensen-kopi","status":"inherit","uploaded_to":58838,"date":"2017-11-15 22:30:03","modified":"2019-05-09 06:26:58","menu_order":0,"mime_type":"image\/jpeg","type":"image","subtype":"jpeg","icon":"https:\/\/uniavisen.dk\/wp-includes\/images\/media\/default.png","width":827,"height":1181,"sizes":{"thumbnail":"https:\/\/uniavisen.dk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/larsjuhljensenkopi-150x150.jpg","thumbnail-width":150,"thumbnail-height":150,"medium":"https:\/\/uniavisen.dk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/larsjuhljensenkopi-480x685.jpg","medium-width":480,"medium-height":685,"medium_large":"https:\/\/uniavisen.dk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/larsjuhljensenkopi-768x1097.jpg","medium_large-width":768,"medium_large-height":1097,"large":"https:\/\/uniavisen.dk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/larsjuhljensenkopi.jpg","large-width":827,"large-height":1181,"1536x1536":"https:\/\/uniavisen.dk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/larsjuhljensenkopi.jpg","1536x1536-width":827,"1536x1536-height":1181,"2048x2048":"https:\/\/uniavisen.dk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/larsjuhljensenkopi.jpg","2048x2048-width":827,"2048x2048-height":1181,"featured-soft":"https:\/\/uniavisen.dk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/larsjuhljensenkopi-290x414.jpg","featured-soft-width":290,"featured-soft-height":414,"featured-hard":"https:\/\/uniavisen.dk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/larsjuhljensenkopi-290x180.jpg","featured-hard-width":290,"featured-hard-height":180,"narrow":"https:\/\/uniavisen.dk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/larsjuhljensenkopi-700x1000.jpg","narrow-width":700,"narrow-height":1000,"extended":"https:\/\/uniavisen.dk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/larsjuhljensenkopi.jpg","extended-width":827,"extended-height":1181}},"style":"narrow","text_placement":"metadata-below","image_link_url":"","image_link_title":"","caption_prefix":"","enable_alternative_caption":false,"alternative_caption":""},{"acf_fc_layout":"Content","content":"<h2>Lars Juhl Jensen, Group Leader, Disease Systems Biology Programme<\/h2>\n<p>\u00bbI generally travel for one of four different reasons:\u00ab<\/p>\n<p>\u00bb1. To take part in grant meetings. As a <secret text=\"EU's programme for research and innovation\">Horizon 2020<\/secret> and <secret text=\"National Institutes of Health\">NIH<\/secret> grant recipient, I\u2019m expected to attend an annual meeting for each grant. I can send someone on my behalf, but that would do absolutely nothing to reduce the environmental impact.\u00ab<\/p>\n<p>\u00bb2. To participate as an invited speaker at conferences. I, as a professional, as well as the centre where I work, am judged, in part, on how often we are invited to speak. So these are offers I can\u2019t refuse.\u00ab<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>All of my course material is publicly available, so if someone wants to run one of my classes without me, they are more than welcome to.<\/p>\n<p class=\"quotee\">Lars Juhl Jensen, Group Leader<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>\u00bb3. To teach PhD and post-doc classes abroad. Some of the classes I teach are held in some pretty hard-to-reach places in South America, Africa and India.\u00ab<\/p>\n<p>\u00bbOne of the main reasons for holding the classes is precisely that it makes much more sense to fly a handful of experts to where the students are than it would be to fly a big group of PhD and post-doctoral students to Europe or the US. This is practical, hands-on instruction, not something you can teach in on-line lectures. All of my course material is publicly available, so if someone wants to run one of my classes without me, they are more than welcome to.\u00ab<\/p>\n<p>\u00bb4. To participate in evaluation panels. This involves either evaluating applications for funding or being an opponent when someone is defending a dissertation. When funding is allocated in a country \u2014 take Germany, for example \u2014 it\u2019s often the case that people have conflicts of interest, since they themselves are applying for funding. Someone needs to decide who gets funded, so they wind up bringing in people from other countries. Honestly, I\u2019d be happy not to have to take on the extra work, but, when it comes to defending dissertations at least, most universities require that one of the opponents comes from another country.\u00ab<\/p>\n<p>\u00bbOn top of that there is normally an annual conference in my field (and during which I typically make a presentation). It is held in the US one year, and in Europe the next. In addition, I typically travel about twice a year to meet with my closest European partners.\u00ab<\/p>\n<p>\u00bbThere isn\u2019t much I can do to cut back on how much I fly. In the past, I almost always took the night train and slept in a sleeping car when I travelled to my meetings in southern Germany. I found that was preferable to spending half a day travelling each way, and having to stay an extra night or two at a hotel. But that night train doesn\u2019t run anymore.\u00ab<\/p>\n<p>\u00bbI try to combine trips, when possible. In January, for example, I held a lecture in Hungary that I was able to combine with some teaching I did at a PhD winter school in southern Poland. Last month, while I was on my way to a conference at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, I visited someone in New York I am submitting an application with. And, later this year, I\u2019m scheduled to give a lecture in Berlin the day after I take part in a panel evaluating funding applications.\u00ab<\/p>\n<p>\u00bbThe other thing I do is take a day or two off when I travel someplace on business. That means that I sometimes don\u2019t fly on holiday for several years at a stretch.\u00ab<\/p>\n"},{"acf_fc_layout":"ArticleEnd"},{"acf_fc_layout":"Newsletter","lang_select":"Dansk","identifier":"Newsletter","headline":"Receive a weekly newsletter in your inbox","button_text":"Tilmeld nu","class":""},{"acf_fc_layout":"OtherStories","headline":"","hand_picked_posts":false,"references":false,"category":false,"theme":false,"number_of_posts":"4","style":"default"}]},"taxonomyData":{"category":[{"term_id":48,"name":"Politics","slug":"politics","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":48,"taxonomy":"category","description":"","parent":0,"count":1036,"filter":"raw"}],"post_tag":[{"term_id":1779,"name":"air travel","slug":"air-travel","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":1779,"taxonomy":"post_tag","description":"","parent":0,"count":2,"filter":"raw"},{"term_id":1055,"name":"Climate change","slug":"climate-change","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":1055,"taxonomy":"post_tag","description":"","parent":0,"count":12,"filter":"raw"},{"term_id":380,"name":"sustainability","slug":"sustainability","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":380,"taxonomy":"post_tag","description":"","parent":0,"count":4,"filter":"raw"}],"post_format":[],"expression":[{"term_id":18,"name":"Feature Article","slug":"feature_article","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":18,"taxonomy":"expression","description":"","parent":0,"count":1200,"filter":"raw"}],"translation_priority":[]},"featured_media_url":"https:\/\/uniavisen.dk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/istock1134557406.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/uniavisen.dk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87137","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/uniavisen.dk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/uniavisen.dk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uniavisen.dk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/67"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uniavisen.dk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=87137"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/uniavisen.dk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87137\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":87148,"href":"https:\/\/uniavisen.dk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87137\/revisions\/87148"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uniavisen.dk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/85868"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/uniavisen.dk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=87137"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uniavisen.dk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=87137"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uniavisen.dk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=87137"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}