Best Paper Award in Environmental Political Theory, Western Political Science Association, April 2014.

Outstanding ASPECT Faculty Award, Alliance for Social, Political, Ethical and Cultural Thought Program, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University. September 2013.

Director of the Danish Center for Energy Technology at AU-Herning and a Professor of Business and Social Sciences at Aarhus University (Århus Universitet) in Denmark. He is also Associate Professor of Law at Vermont Law School and founding Director of the Energy Security and Justice Program at their Institute for Energy and the Environment