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!!Poul Holm - Biography
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Poul Holm is Trinity Long Room Hub Professor of Humanities at Trinity College Dublin, Ireland, and Director of the Irish Digital Arts and Humanities Structured PhD Programme. He is President of the European Consortium of Humanities Institutes and Centres. In the past he has been Academic Director of the Trinity Long Room Hub, Rector (President) of the University of Roskilde, and Professor of Maritime History at the University of Southern Denmark. He has served on national and European committees such as the Danish Research Council for the Humanities (chairman 2001-5), the European Society for Environmental History (President 2005-7), the EU DG Research METRIS group (chairman 2008-9), and the ESF RESCUE initiative on Climate Change Research (lead author on Collaboration between natural, human and social sciences) and is the co-founder of EASSH in 2015 (European Alliance of Social Studies and Humanities).\\
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His doctoral thesis examined the impact of war on everyday life in Norway, Sweden and Denmark between 1550 and 1914. He has published on fisheries history and marine environmental history; coastal communities and culture; and the Viking settlements in Ireland. His current research is the History of Marine Animal Populations project, HMAP, aiming to understand human benefits from and impact on ocean life. \\
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Chair, History of Marine Animal Populations  2000- \\
President, European Consortium of Humanities Institutes and Centres  2011- \\
Member, Trinity College Research Committee  2009-2012 \\
Member of Steering Committee, Arts and Humanities Research Council (UK), Landscape and Environment Programme  2008-2011  \\
Member, Census of Marine Life, Scientific Steering Committee (global)  2000-2010 \\
Chairman, METRIS, EU DG Research committee, Monitoring European Trends in Research in the Social sciences and the humanities  2008-2009  \\
Member of Steering Committee, ESF-COST Interdisciplinary Initiative, A European Network of Networks: New Perspectives on Landscapes  2007-2009 \\
Member, Linnaeus Grants Committee, Swedish Academy of Sciences  2007-2008 \\
Member, Executive Committee (formandskabet), Vækstforum Sjælland (public-private regional development foundation)  2007-2008  \\
Member, Governing Board, Viking Ship Museum  2007-2008  \\
Member, Governing Board, Lejre Experimental Centre  2006-2008  \\
Member, Council, Royal Danish Geographical Society  2006-2008  \\
Member, Executive Committee, Øresund Science Region (public-private consortium of Danish-Swedish businesses, universities, regions and municipalities)  2006-2008  \\
Member, Board of Governors and Executive Committee, Øresund University (consortium of 14 Danish and Swedish universities)  2006-2008  \\
Member, Scientific Steering Committee, HERA Humanities in the European Research Area  2005-2006  \\
Member, Scientific Advisory Board, The Danish National Research Foundation's Centre for Black Sea Studies  2005-2006  \\
President, ESEH, European Society for Environmental History  2005-2007  \\
Member, Scientific Steering Committee, MarBEF (EU)  2004-2006  \\
Member, Ministry of Food, Agriculture and Fisheries Fish Tax Foundation  2004-2006  \\
Member, Standing Committee for the Humanities, European Science Foundation  2004-2006  \\
Member, Governing Board of Danish Institute for International Studies  2003-2006  \\
Vice-President, ESEH, European Society for Environmental History  2003-2005  \\
Member, board of Institute for Fisheries Management and Coastal Communities Development  2003-2007  \\
Chairman, European Network of Research Councils for the Humanities (ERCH)  2002-2004  \\
Member, Ministry of Food, Agriculture and Fisheries Committee on Environmental Impact and Fisheries Resources  2001-2002  \\
Chairman, Danish Research Council for the Humanities  2001-2005 \\
Member, External Research Advisory Board, Danish National Museum  2001-2005 \\
Secretary, Northern European History Research Network  2000-2002 \\
Member, Academic Advisory Council, Danish Centre for Maritime Archaeology  2000-2003 \\
Member, Danish Research Council for the Humanities  1999-2005 \\
Member, Academic Advisory Council, National Fishing Heritage Centre, Grimsby, UK  1996-1999 \\
President, Association for the History of the Northern Seas  1993-1997 \\
Treasurer, Association for the History of the Northern Seas  1992-1993 \\
Coordinator, Danish Museums Network for Fisheries History  1992-2000

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