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Esben Auken
TEMCompany Aps
Esben Auken is CEO at TEMCompany Aps, and adjunct professor at the Department of Geoscience, Aarhus University. He has been Deputy Director at the Geological Survey of Denmark and Greenland and before that full time professor of geophysics at Aarhus University. He gained an MSc (1991) and PhD (1996) in geophysics from Aarhus University. TEMCompany vision is to develop affordable, easy to use electromagnetic instruments for imagining groundwater resources.
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TEMCompany Aps
2025 - Present
Aarhus University
Adjunct Professor
2022 - 2030
Geological Survey of Denmark and Greenland
Deputy Director
2020 - 2022
Aarhus University
Professor
2015 - 2020
Aarhus University
Associate Professor
2007 - 2014
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Education
Aarhus University
Doctorate
1996
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A new small coil transient electromagnetic (TEM) instrument and cases imaging the critical zone
RECENT ADVANCES IN NEAR-SURFACE GEOPHYSICS (GENERAL CONTRIBUTIONS) I ORAL
near surface geophysics | 15 december 2025
Effective Inversion of Yellowstone Airborne TEM Data Using Deep Learning
JOURNAL OF GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH: SOLID EARTH
16 may 2025
Multi‐Scale Geophysical Imaging of a Hydrothermal System in Yellowstone National Park, USA
JOURNAL OF GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH: SOLID EARTH
28 march 2025
Data for 3D inversion - A new dual moment transient electromagnetic system with independent functioning transmitter and multiple receivers
ADVANCES IN EXPLORATION GEOPHYSICS II ORAL
near surface geophysics | 12 december 2024
TEM for backpackers – A state of the art small coil transient electromagnetic system for versatile subsurface mapping
ADVANCES IN GEOPHYSICS FOR CRITICAL ZONE, VADOSE ZONE, AND SOIL PROCESSES II POSTER
near surface geophysics | 11 december 2024
Weak Airborne Induced Polarization: Effects Predominantly in the Model-space while Nearly Invisible in the Data-space
ADVANCES IN NEAR-SURFACE APPLICATION OF ELECTRICAL GEOPHYSICAL METHODS II ORAL
near surface geophysics | 12 december 2023
A new ground based Transient electromagnetic system based on the generic SuperTEM platform and opensource control software
ADVANCES IN NEAR-SURFACE APPLICATION OF ELECTRICAL GEOPHYSICAL METHODS III POSTER
near surface geophysics | 12 december 2023
Causes and Characteristics of Electrical Resistivity Variability in Shallow (<4 m) Soils in Taylor Valley, East Antarctica
JOURNAL OF GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH: EARTH SURFACE
17 february 2023
Honors & Awards
Union Fellow
Received December 2023
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For innovative and sustained development of electromagnetic software and instruments that advance hydrologic and geologic discovery and solutions
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