Deputy Prorector for AI Morten Axel Pedersen

Deputy Prorector for AI
Morten Axel Pedersen

Morten Axel Pedersen took up his position as Deputy Prorector for AI at the University of Copenhagen on 1 September 2026.

Born in 1969, he holds a master's degree in Ethnography and Social Anthropology from Aarhus University in 1997 and a PhD in Social Anthropology from University of Cambridge in 2002.

Morten Axel Pedersen is responsible for a major, cross-university AI initiative running from 2026 to 2029. The initiative aims partly to improve the University's use of AI in research, education and administration and partly to support University of Copenhagen researchers' contributions to how society can deal with AI.

Reporting to the Rector, Morten Axel Pedersen is head of the group unit AI Office, He is appointed for a three-year term, running until September 2029, and is not part of the University's top day-to-day management.
  

More about Morten Axel Pedersen

 

2025-
Chief Scientist, National Centre for AI in Society (CAISA), University of Copenhagen (UCPH)

2025-
Professor, Copenhagen Centre for Social Data Science (SODAS) (UCPH)

2022-25
Director of DataLab, Faculty of Social Sciences, UCPH

2021-25
Director of SODAS, UCPH

2019-21
Deputy Director, SODAS, UCPH

2013-
Professor, Department of Anthropology UCPH

2010-13
Deputy Head of Department, Department of Anthropology, UCPH

2008
Associate Professor, Department of Anthropology, UCPH

2003
Assistant Professor, Department of Anthropology, UCPH

2002
Postdoc, Department of Anthropology, UCPH

 

 

​2002
PhD, University of Cambridge

1997
MA, Ethnography and Social Anthropology, Aarhus University