Troels Skrydstrup is currently a Professor at the Department of Chemistry, Aarhus University. He is presently a Villum Investigator at Aarhus University, and theme leader of the Novo Nordisk Foundation CO2 Research Center. He is the former center leader of the Carbon Dioxide Activation Center (2015-2025) funded by the Danish National Research Foundation. Troels Skrydstrup is an elected fellow of the Royal Danish Academy of Sciences and Letters, and he was knighted by the Queen of Denmark in 2012.
His awards include the Melvin Calvin Award 2018, the Bjerrum, Brønsted, Lang award in 2022, and recently also the prestigious Chinese Governmental Friendship Award (2024).
Troels Skrydstrup has over 330 publications.
Recent efforts have been focused on the development of innovative isotope labeling techniques, methods for polymer disassembly and carbon dioxide capture and conversion, all through the application of transition metal chemistry.