PERSONAL INFORMATION

Born May 22, 1967 in Aarhus

Married to Ida Binow Poulsen.

Two daugthers, Selma and Ronja

EDUCATION AND EMPLOYMENT

1991 MSc at Aarhus University (Denmark).

1993 Ph.D. at Aarhus University (studies performed in Brazil and USA).

1993-97 Postdoc in Nevada, Brazil, California and British Columbia.

1997 Assistant Research Professor at University of Odense.

1998-00 Lecturer at The University of Birmingham (England).

2000-04 Lektor at Aarhus University.

2005 Professor at Aarhus University.

2011 Head of section for Zoophysiology.

HONOURS & PRIZES

1991 Stipend from The Fulbright Commission to study in USA

1999 Presidents medal from The Society of Experimental Biology.

2000 Rømer stipendium from The Danish Research Council.

2004 Honorary Professor at The University of Birmingham.

2008 Visiting Professor at Université Montpellier, CNRS-UM2 (France)

2010 Award of Merit for outstanding contribution at Can Tho University, Vietnam.

2012 Aarhus University’s Research Communication Award.

2012 Elected member The Royal Danish Academy of Sciences and Letters.

SPECIAL LECTURES

2007 Hoar Lecture at Department of Zoology, University of British Columbia.

2009 Krogh Lecture at 36th World Congress of The International Union of Physiological Sciences.

2010 Keynote speaker at “Mammalian Myocardium” in Manchester.

2011 Plenary speaker at annual meeting in The Norwegian Physiological Society.

2011 Michael de Burgh Daly Lecture at annual meeting of The Physiological Society .

2013 Plenary speaker at annual meeting in Brazilian Physiological Society.

Many invited talks, incl Society for Experimental Biology, American Physiological Society, The Physiological Society, Scandinavian Physiological Society & Int. Union of Physiological Sciences.

PROFESSIONAL SERVICE

Secretary for Animal section in The Society for Experimental Biology (2008-2010).

Chair of comparative commission in International Union of Physiological Sciences (2009-2017).

Editorial board member of Physiological and Biochemical Zoology, Advances of Experimental Biology, The Journal of Experimental Biology, Journal of Comparative Physiology, Frontiers in Aquatic Physiology, Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology A, Acta Physiologica and PHYSIOLOGY.

Panel member of Norwegian Research Council and The Research Academy of Finland (2008-2015) and Swedish Research Council (2014).

PUBLIC DISSEMINATION OF RESEARCH

Member of Programrådet for Folkeuniversitetet in Aarhus since 2008. More than 10 lectures a year.

Member of the International Biology Olympiad Task Committee for 2015.

Many talks at Naturvidenskabsfestival etc and host for many high school visits.

Many appearances in television, newspapers and radio on various topics.

TEACHING AND SUPERVISION OF GRADUATE STUDENTS

Supervised 55 MSc students, plus 4 current students. 28 of the past MSc students continued with a PhD (Biosciences, Rigshospitalet, Faculty of Health (AU), Skejby Hospital or Foulum).

Supervised 9 PhD students, plus 6 current students. 8 former students are currently associate or assistant professors, or PDs in Denmark, Holland, USA and Norway.

Thesis committee member at University of British Columbia, University of Northern Texas and University of Birmingham.

Examiner on PhD theses in USA, Canada, England, Norway, Sweden, Finland and Brazil.

Teaches many courses in human and comparative physiology.

Physiology at Neuroscience & Neuroimaging MSc program at the Sino-Danish Center (Beijing).

Many PhD courses in Denmark, USA, Brazil and Vietnam.

ORGANISATION OF INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIA

Program committee for International Union of Physiological Sciences 2013 in Birmingham; 4000 participants.

Organising committee of SEB satellite symposium "Fueling the Fire of Life” Scotland (2014).

Organising committee for APS Intersociety Meeting: Comparative Approaches to Grand Challenges in Physiology (2014) with an expected 1000 participants.