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Education.
University of Copenhagen Medical School, M.D., February 1983.

Doctoral Thesis: Dynamic aspects of the tubuloglomerular feedback mechanism. University of Copenhagen, March 1992.

• Professional Background
  Resident, State University Hospital, Copenhangen, Denmark, February 1983 - August 1983.
• Post doctoral fellow, University of Copenhagen, Denmark. September 1983 - May 1987.
• Assistant Professor of Physiology, University of Copenhagen, Denmark. May 1987 - April 1992.
• Associate Professor of Physiology and Biophysics, University of Southern California, USA.  February 1988 - January 1993.
• Associate Professor of Physiology, University of Copenhagen, Denmark. February 1993 - September 1994.
• Adjunct Associate Professor of Physiology and Biophysics, Brown University, Providence, USA. February 1993 - June 1994.
• Adjunct Professor of Physiology and Biophysics, Brown University, Providence, USA. July 1994 - december 2005.
• Professor of Physiology, University of Copenhagen, Denmark. October 1994 - present.
• Chairman, Department of Medical Physiology, University of Copenhagen, July 2006 - December 2007.
• Head of Department, Department of Biomedical Sciences, January 2007 - 2015.

Society memberships

• Scandinavian Physiological Society
• American Physiological Society
• The Council for High Blood, Pressure Research - the American Heart Association
• The Danish Hypertension Society
• The Mathematical Association of America
• The American Mathematical Society
• The Society for Mathematical Biology
• The Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics

Administrative work

• Member of the Research Committe of the American Heart Association-Greater Los Angeles Affiliate, 1990-1993.
• Member of the Department Board, the Department of Medical Physiology, University of Copenhagen, fall 1995 - present.
• Member of the Life Science Working Group, The European Space Agency, Paris Fran­ce, spring 1994 - fall 1998.
• Member of the Research Committee for the School of Medicine, The University of Copen­ha­gen, fall 1995 - present.
• Member of the Steering Committee of the Research Committee for the School of Medicine, The University of Copen­ha­gen, fall 1999 - present.
• Member of the Strategic Planning Committee for the School of Medicine, The University of Copen­ha­gen, Spring 2002 - present.
• Member of the Board for the following foundations: Kaj Bunch-Jensen og Alis Bunch-Jensens Fund, Ruth-Koenig-Petersens Fund, Johan Quentin and wife's Fund (Chairman).

Consultantships

• Member of the Fellowship Study Section, the American Heart Association-Greater Los Angeles Affiliate, 1989-1994
• Member of the Study Section for Kidney and Urology Research Centers, National Institutes of Health (NIH), National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases (NIDDK), Wa­shington D.C., fall 1991.
• Ad hoc reviewer of Nephrology Grants for the Department of Veterans Affairs, Veterans Health Administration, Washington D.C. Spring 1992.
• Special Study Section Member (review of grant applications), National Institutes of Health, Washington, D.C., 1992 - present.
• Member of the International Study Section for Integrative Physiology, ESA/NASA, Washington D.C. Review of grants in connection with the International Space Station, summer 1997, winter 1999, and winter 2000.
• External consultant in connection with the international evaluation of Dutch Biomedical research, The Royal Dutch Academy of Science, Amsterdam, Holland, spring 1998.
• Member of the Study Section (review of grant applications), the Danish Heart Association, 2001 - 2007.
• Member of the Study Section (review of grant applications), the Novo-Nordisk Foundation, 2006 - present

Editorial work

• Invited guest editor on a special issue of Cardiovascular Research on the use of "Chaos theory" in cardio­lo­gy, 1995-1996.
• Member of the Editorial Board for American Journal of Physiology - Integrative and Regulatory Physio­lo­gy, 2001- present.

Supervision
Supervisor for 14 completed Ph.D. students (12 at the University of Copenhagen, and 2 at the University of Southern California). Currently supervising 6 Ph.D. students.

Publications
Published 175 peer reviewed papers in international journals, and 18 book chapters.

Patents
Holder of 2 patents.

Primary fields of research

• Renal and Cardiovascular Physiology.
• Regulation of the extracellular volume.
• Hypertension. Re­gu­la­tion of mi­cro­vascular function.
• Gap junction function in heart and smooth muscle.
• Inter­cellular sig­naling. Mathematical Modeling of Physiological Systems.
• Application of the theory of non-linear dynamical systems to physiological problems.