Ulrik Lund Andersen (born 1972 in Ikast) is a Danish physicist and professor of physics at the Department of Physics at the Technical University of Denmark (DTU), who researches quantum optics and quantum networks.
He went to Ikast-Brande Gymnasium high school. He received a Master of Science in physics from DTU in 1999 and a Ph.D. from DTU in 2003. He worked at the University of Erlangen–Nuremberg in Germany from 2003-2006, and was then employed as an associate professor at DTU. In 2012, he was appointed professor and section leader at DTU Physics.[1][2]
In 2013, Andersen received the EliteForsk Prize in recognition of his work on quantum optics.[3]