CURRICULUM VITAE (condensed) MICHAEL TOPHØJ SØRENSEN Associate Professor in Land Management, Department of Development and Planning, Head of School of Surveying and Planning, - Aalborg University, Denmark Born 1967, Aalborg, Denmark Married to Bettina Bisp Jensen, Consultant at Northern Jutland County Administration; father to three kids (born 1994, 1996 and 1999) Professional Career Master of Science in Surveying, Planning and Land Use Management – 1994 Trainee at Ministry of the Environment; connected with the Retail Planning Committee – 1995-1996 Ph.D. in Land use management and the development of the retail structure - 1999 Awarded the Nordic Chartered Surveyor’s Congress Prize – 2000 Member of The L-Study Board, School of Surveying and Planning – since 2003 Head of the The L-Study Board, School of Surveying and Planning – since 2005 Head of School of Surveying and Planning - since 2005 The Danish Chartered Surveyors Association’s delegate in FIG (International Federation of Surveyors), Commission 2 – since 2006 Visiting researcher, Tokyo Institute of Technology (Dept. of Social Engineering) – April and May 2007 Publications Ph.D.-thesis; sundry consultancy reports; and several articles on Land Use Management, Spatial Planning and Land Law. Several invited papers and presentations at national and international conferences and seminars. For details see publication list: http://www.plan.aau.dk/~tophoej/PUBLIKATIONSLISTE_mts_marts2007.pdf Professional Interests General interests: Land use planning, land use management, land law; and problem based learning (PBL), national and international marketing of university study programs. Specific research interests: Urban planning and urban regeneration; public participation in planning decisions, planning policy making and implementation processes (potentials and barriers in policy making and implementation); land policy implementation tools (in public law as well as in civil law, including agreements, easements and public-private partnerships), planning methods and theory, the role of planning; Retail development and planning, driving forces in the development of the retail structure, potentials and obstacles to steer and regulate the retail structure; Legal rights of individual land owners and other addressees when they are met with planning regulations. Teaching Experiences Courses in land law, local planning, planning administration/consideration of cases, planning implementation and implementation tools, planning and regulation theory, planning methods, Supervision of bachelor-, master- and Ph.D.-students; all based on the PBL-concept. Teaching activities have mainly been related to the following studies and programmes: Chartered Surveyor (M.Sc. in Planning, Surveying and Land Management); Civil Engineer in Planning and the Environment; and Civil Engineer in Architecture and Design. Address and Contact Details Michael Tophøj Sørensen, Aalborg University, Fibigerstraede 11, DK 9220 Aalborg, Denmark. Tel: +45 9635 8415, Fax: +45 9815 6541, Email: tophoej@land.aau.dk, Homepage: www.plan.aau.dk/~tophoej