Sine Larsen

Professor Sine Ydun Larsen (née Blus-Pedersen, 28 May 1943 – 4 January 2025) was a Danish structural chemist, crystallographer and scientific director. Her research included crystal structure analyses of organic molecules and proteins, chirality and charge density studies. She was scientific research director at the European Synchrotron Radiation Facility (ESRF) in Grenoble, France, general director at the MAX IV Laboratory synchrotron radiation facility in Lund, Sweden, and director of the Centre for Crystallographic Studies at the University of Copenhagen in Copenhagen, Denmark. She was president, general secretary and treasurer of the International Union of Crystallography (IUCr). She was awarded the Max Perutz Prize by the European Crystallographic Association (ECA), was appointed to the Order of the Dannebrog and was elected to the Royal Physiographic Society in Lund.