Anne Borg (born September 27, 1958) is a Norwegian professor of physics and was rector (2019–2023) at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology in Trondheim. She was prorector of education at NTNU from August 1, 2017, to August 20, 2019. She was appointed acting rector of NTNU on August 21, 2019, later being officially employed as rector on December 13 the same year.
Her areas of research are surface and materials physics, scanning probe microscopy, photoelectron spectroscopy and density functional theory.
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Education and professional career
Borg was born in Drammen. She has an Msc (sivilingeniør) in applied physics from the Norwegian Institute of Technology (NTH), Trondheim, (1982), and in 1987 she received her PhD in physics at NTNU, with the thesis Infrared spectroscopy for studies of molecular vibrations at surfaces : construction and testing of a wavelength modulation infrared spectrometer.
After having finished her PhD, she worked as a post doctor at Stanford University, Stanford Synchrotron Radiation Laboratory in 1988–1989, and held various research positions at NTH, NTNU and SINTEF.
In 1998 she was appointed professor at the Department of Physics, NTNU.
