Kort præsentation

Jeg forsker i hvordan hjernen og resten af centralnervesystemet kontrollerer vores bevægelser, men også i hvordan hjernen påvirkes af de aktiviteter, vi indgår i (indlæring, fysisk aktivitet, fysisk inaktivitet).

Hovedfokus i forskningen relaterer sig til indlæring og i særdeleshed motorisk indlæring samt de underliggende mekanismer. Igennem de senere år har vi i forskningsgruppen foruden fokus på neuroplasticitet og motorisk indlæring fået øget fokus på effekter af fysisk træning og inaktivitet og hvordan disse faktorer påvirker centralnervesystemet.

Vi undersøger effekter af træning på motorisk indlæring, hukommelse, neuroplasticitet og funktionsevne igennem hele livet - altså hos børn, unge og ældre voksne, og ligeledes hos patientgrupper med særligt fokus på neurologiske sygdomme. 

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Present position
Associate Professor and Head of Section ‘Movement & Neuroscience' at Department of Nutrition, Exercise & Sports, University of Copenhagen. 

Education and academic degrees
2010  Ph.D. Human Motor Control, University of Copenhagen
2002  M.Sc. Human Physiology, University of Copenhagen
2000  Minor degree Psychology, University of Copenhagen
1998  B.Sc. Exercise & Sport Sciences, University of Copenhagen

Positions

2021 -      Associate Professor and Head of Section 'Movement & Neuroscience' at Department of Nutrition, Exercise & Sports, , University of Copenhagen

2021 – 2022   Acting Head, Centre of Team Sport & Health, University of Copenhagen

2015 -  2020 Associate Professor and Head of research group for ‘Motor Performance and Health’ at Department of Nutrition, Exercise & Sports. Affiliated at Department of Neuroscience, University of Copenhagen

2013 - 2015 Associate Professor and Group Coordinator for ‘Motor Learning and Neuroplasticity’, Department of Nutrition, Exercise & Sports & Department of Neuroscience and Pharmacology, University of Copenhagen

2012 Guest researcher, Faculty of Medicine, Université de Fribourg, Switzerland

2011-2012 Assistant Professor and Group Coordinator for ‘Motor Learning and Neuroplasticity’ at Department of Exercise & Sport Sciences & Department of Neuroscience and Pharmacology, University of Copenhagen

2010-2011  Postdoc at Department of Exercise & Sport Sciences & Department of Neuroscience and Pharmacology, University of Copenhagen

2006-2010  Lab Manager at Department of Exercise & Sport Sciences & Department of Neuroscience and Pharmacology, University of Copenhagen

2004-2009  Ph.D. student at Department of Exercise & Sport Sciences & Graduate School of Neuroscience, University of Copenhagen

Postgraduate education

Leading Research Courses, University Pedagogics and Teaching for Assistant Professors (1y course) Etc.

Teaching
Teaching at the courses listed below since 2004: Human Physiology, Motor Learning, Human Neurobiology, Human Motor Development, Neuroplasticity, Exercise Physiology, Functional Neurobiology, Strength Training, Human Neuroscience etc.

Editorial work
Reviewing Editor for Frontiers in Human Neuroscience

Reviewer for the journals listed below and more: Journal of Neuroscience, Cerebral Cortex, Journal of Physiology (London), Journal of Neurophysiology, PloS ONE, Journal of Applied Physiology Medicine & Science in Sports and Exercise, Experimental Brain Research, Journal of Motor Behavior, Neuroimage, etc.