Rate My Professor Niclas Scott Bentsen

Niclas Scott Bentsen serves as Associate Professor in the Department of Geosciences and Natural Resource Management at the University of Copenhagen, within the Forest and Bioresources section. His research addresses critical challenges in mitigating climate change and advancing a circular economy through sustainable biological resource management. Key areas include quantification and characterization of biomass resources from agriculture and forestry across local to global scales, optimal allocation of these resources primarily for energy uses to maximize utility and minimize adverse impacts, assessment of bioenergy's climate effects encompassing direct greenhouse gas emissions, altered CO2 sequestration, and indirect economic influences, and evaluation of bioenergy sustainability across environmental, social, and economic dimensions using methods such as life cycle assessment, lifecycle thinking, and material flow analysis.

Bentsen's career at the University of Copenhagen has produced 305 research outputs, comprising 191 journal articles among others, with approximately 1,927 citations reflecting his impact in bioenergy and climate mitigation. Prominent publications include "Biomass for energy in the European Union: a review of bioenergy potentials" (2012), "Carbon budgets and climate footprints: the case of the Swedish forest-based economy" (2026, Journal of Industrial Ecology), "A conceptual framework for assessing pathways towards climate neutrality and biodiversity conservation in a circular forest-based economy" (2025, Ecological Economics), "Greenhouse gas balance of solar parks built on peatlands in Germany" (2025, Scientific Reports), and "CO2 emission factors and carbon pay back for forest biomass for energy" (2024). He contributes to public and academic discourse via 103 lectures and oral contributions, including recent invited talks on "CDR med BECCS" (2026), "Bioenergy with Carbon Capture and Storage (BECCS) or Utilization (BECCU)" (2026), and "Negative emissioner med BECCS" (2025).