Karen Hanghøj

Karen Hanghøj
Karen Hanghøj
	Hanghøj speaks to the European Geosciences Union in 2020
Born	1966 (age 57–58); Lemvig, Denmark
Alma mater	University of Copenhagen (MSc); University of Copenhagen (PhD);
Awards	William Smith Medal (2023)
	Scientific career
Institutions	Geological Survey of Denmark and Greenland; EIT RawMaterials; British Geological Survey (Director, 2019);
Theses	Petrographic description of the Au–PGE mineralization in the Skaergaard intrusion (MSc, 1993) ; Geochemistry of the East Greenland Tertiary dyke swarm; temporal and spatial variations. (PhD, 1998)) ;

Karen Hanghøj (born 1966) is a Danish geologist with expertise in the sustainable management of natural mineral resources. In 2019 she was appointed director of the British Geological Survey. She was the first woman to take on this role since the survey was founded in 1835.

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