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Birger Lindberg Møller R.¹ (born 17 November 1946 ) is a Danish plant biologist and professor at and head of the Center for Synthetic Biology at the Faculty of Natural and Life Sciences at the University of Copenhagen. He researches plant biochemistry and synthetic biology.

Education and career
Møller graduated in biochemistry at the University of Copenhagen in 1972 and went on to do a PhD in organic chemistry and biochemistry at the same university, which he completed in 1975. He obtained his PhD in 1984 with a thesis on plant photosynthesis.

He held a number of funded appointments at the Royal Veterinary and Agricultural University of Denmark. Veterinary and Agricultural University, University of California and Carlsberg Laboratory in the period 1972-1984. At Carlsberg he was a Niels Bohr Fellow of the Royal Danish Academy of Sciences and Letters. He became a research professor at the Department of Plant Physiology, The Royal Veterinary and Agricultural University. Veterinary and Agricultural University in 1984, and in 1990 he was appointed Professor of Plant Biochemistry at the same institution. From 1998-2007 he was head of the Centre for Molecular Plant Physiology (funded by the Danish National Research Foundation) at the Royal Veterinary and Agricultural University which is now part of the University of Copenhagen.

In 2014-2015 he was director of Carlsberg Laboratory.

Møller is actively involved in collaboration with and mentoring of do-it-yourself communities and participates in debates on the opportunities, risks and ethics of synthetic biology in the written and electronic media. He is an elected member of the Royal Danish Academy of Science and Letters and member of the International Human Rights Network of Academic and Scholarly Societies, Washington. In 2007, he was awarded the VILLUM Kann Rasmussen Research Prize, the largest Danish research award (350.000 Euro). In 2013, he was awarded an ERC Advanced Grant and in 2015 an ERC PoC grant. His current research group is funded by grants from the Novo Nordisk Foundation and from the Carlsberg Foundation  .

He has published over 400 scientific articles and has an h-index of 72 according to Web of Science.

Honor

 * 1994: Carlsberg Research Award
 * 1994: Director Ib Henriksen's Research Award
 * 1995: Knight of the Dannebrog
 * 2003: SPPS mediation award
 * 2004: Future Prize, Academy for Future Research
 * 2007: Villum Kann Rasmussen's Annual Scholarship, Villum Foundation
 * 2009: Honorary doctorate, Umeå University
 * 2013: Honorary Professor University of Queensland
 * 2014: Knight of the Dannebrog of the first degree


 * Academies of Science


 * The Society of Sciences
 * Danish Academy of Natural Sciences
 * The Academy of Technical Sciences