Niels Windfeld Lund became the first employee and full professor in Documentation Studies at the Department of Documentation Studies, UiT-The Arctic University of Norway. Dr Lund was Associate Professor at the Royal School of Library and Information Science in Denmark and has twice been Visiting Professor at the University of California, Berkeley. In 2001 Dr Lund founded The Document Academy, an international network for Documentation studies organising annual DOCAM conferences around the world. He is still active as Professor Emeritus, participating in research projects.