Søren-Peter Olesen

CV

Education     

• 1979 - MSc (elec.ing.; civilingeniør), Danish Technical University
  
  
• 1982 - MD, University of Copenhagen
  
  
• 1988 - Internship, Rigshospitalet                             
  
  
• 1989 - PhD (dr.med.), University of Copenhagen
  
  

Previous positions                                  

• 1982-1986 Research assistant/PhD student, Department Med Physiol, University of Copenhagen
  
  
• 1986-1987: Visiting scientist, Brigham & Women's Hospital, Harvard Med. School, Boston, USA
  
  
• 1987-1989: Internship, Dept. of Medicine, Surgery, Ophthalmology, Copenhagen Hospitals
  
  
• 1989–1998: Head of Department, NeuroSearch A/S
  
  
• 1998-: Professor of Physiology, Department of Biomed Sci, University of Copenhagen
  
  
• 2005-2015: Director of Danish National Research Foundation Centre for Cardiac Arrhythmia
  
  
• 2006-2015: Head of division of cardiovascular research, Dept Biomed Sci, Univ. Copenhagen
  
  
• 2009-2011: Secretary General of the Royal Danish Academy of Sciences and Letters
  
  
• 2015-2024: CEO of the Danish National Research Foundation

Publications

Published more than 180 papers in international peer reviewed journals about ion channels, arrhythmia, cardiovascular- and neuro-physiology. Co-inventor on 22 issued international patents on new chemical compounds, biological principles, and technological inventions.

Scientific conferences

Co-organize several conferences each year.

Boards a.o.  

• Member of the board of the Carlsberg Foundation
  
  
• Member of the Royal Danish Academy of Sciences and Letter
  
  
• Chairman of the Danish National Banks ’Nyhavn 18 committee’
  
  
• Chairman of the Nordea Foundation’s board for Heerings Gaard
  
  
• Honorary faculty at the Victor Chang Cardiac Research Institute, Sydney, Australia
  
  

Industry

• Member of the supervisory board of The Carlsberg Group A/S and of the board of trustees of the Carlsberg Laboratory
  
  
• Member of the Board of Directors of Sophion Bioscience A/S, 2001-11
  
  
• Co-founder of Sophion Bioscience and Poseidon Pharma 2001-2, CEO of Poseidon 2002-4
  
  
• Consultant to NeuroSearch A/S, 1998-2012
  
  
• Consultant to Acesion Pharma 2012-
  
  
• Chairman of the committee making the university-industry collaboration strategy at U Cph, 2009-10