Liv Hornekær holds a professor position at Aarhus University, where she also heads the Center of Excellence for Interstellar Catalysis. She received her PhD from Aarhus University in 2002, held a Carlsberg fellowship at University of Southern Denmark, followed by Steno and Skou fellowships at Aarhus University. She has received the EliteForsk prize and the Friedrich Wilhelm Bessel Research Award. She has held ERC starting and consolidator grants and is a member of the Royal Danish Academy for Sciences and Letters. Her research interest center around surface reactions and surface functionalization. Specific focus areas are control of graphene electronic and chemical properties via functionalization, graphene coatings, surface astrochemistry and low temperature surface reactions.