Professor Lars Arendt-Nielsen

Dr. Med. Sci., Ph.D.

Curriculum Vitae

Lars Arendt-Nielsen

Aalborg University
Center for Sensory-Motor Interaction
Department for Health Sciences and Technology
Fredrik Bajersvej 7-D3
9220 Aalborg
Denmark

E-mail: LAN

Professional background:

1983	M.Sc. in Biomedical Sciences, Aalborg University.
1983-1984	Post graduate student, University College, London.
1987	Ph.D. in Biomedical Sciences, Faculty of Science and Technology, Aalborg University
1994	Dr.Sci. in Medicine, The Medical Faculty, Aarhus University.

Employments:

1983-1984	Research fellow, Dept. of Clinical Neurophysiology, The National Hospital for Nervous Diseases, London.
1984-1987	Ph.D. student, Aalborg University.
1987-1988	Assistant professor, Aalborg University.
1988-1993	Research Fellow, The Danish Cancer Society.
1993-	Professor in Biomedical Sciences, Aalborg University, Dept. for Health Science and Technology.
1993-	Founder, head, and principal investigator, Center for Sensory-Motor Interaction.
1998-1999	Guest professor, National Institute for Physiological Sciences, Okasaki, Japan.
2000-2004	Member of the Danish Research Council.
2004-2008	Board member, University Board, Aalborg University.
2004-	Council member, The International Association for the Study of Pain
2006-	Head of the Danish Elite Doctoral Program in Biomedical Sciences at Aalborg University

Honors

2006	Honorary professor, Xian Jiaotong University, School of Medicine, Xian, China
2007	Honorary professor, Bern University, School of Medicine, Bern, Switzerland
2007	Knighted by the Danish Queen (Ridderordenen)

Publications:

He has published 730 publications and is first author of approximately 130 of them. Most papers concentrate on human pain research (experimental and clinical), drug screening and efficacy, interaction between motor control and pain and motor control.

Full list

Research Activities:

The research activities have been concentrated on biomedical sciences within neuroscience. The specific research areas have been on pain and assessment of pain in volunteers and pain patients and on drug effects. The main focus is on human experimental pain research – basic and clinical applications. A substantial network of international collaborations with 15 different countries has been established with universities, hospitals, and the biomedical/pharmaceutical industry. Satellite laboratories have been established in six different countries.

Lectures:

Has participated in more than 250 international conferences with related published abstracts/proceedings and he has given several lectures at Danish and foreign universities and hospitals. Has given more than 180 invited lectures at international meetings/workshops/seminars.

Ph D Education

Has supervised and completed 35 Ph.D. students over the last 15 years. Is founder of the Doctoral School for Biomedical Sciences and Engineering (65 enrolled Ph.D. students), been head of the International Doctoral School for Technology and Engineering (400 students enrolled), been head of Doctoral School for Industrial Researchers (70 students enrolled), and been head of the Academy for Doctoral Education at Aalborg University (all doctoral education at the University, 550 Ph.D. students), and has been member of the Danish Research Education Council.

Teaching:

Has 25 years of university teaching, has achieved experience by teaching medical doctors, nurses, physiotherapists, and has held specialising courses for medical doctors within neurology, orthopaedics, anaesthesiology, oncology, and general practice.
Has been involved in establishing a new Bioemedical Science Master education (started 1999), a new medical education (start 2006) and a new sports education (start 2007).

GCP experience

Has been principal investigator for many drug screening GCP studies (phase I, II, III, experimental and clinical pain evaluation studies) and several large multicenter studies.

Laboratories located at Aalborg Hospital fulfill all requirements for GCP studies.

Others:

Editorial board member of “Experimental Brain Research”, “Pain”, “Journal of Pain”, “European Journal of Pain”.
Chairman of the Local Organising Committee of the 25th Annual SASP (Scandinavian Association for the Study of Pain) Meeting, 4th –7th April 2002, Aalborg, Denmark (500 delegates).
Scientific programme committee – European Pain Meeting 2006 (EFIC, 3000 delegates).
Co-chair of the IASP Research Symposium in Aalborg, May 2007 on Fundamental Aspects of Muscle Hyperalgesia.
Scientific programme committee, World Myopain Conference (2007).
Hosted and arranged 10 international Ph.D. courses “The Neurobiology of The Pain System”.

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Publication statistics, Web of Science

	Results found: 647 Sum of the Times Cited: 12,020 Average Citations per paper: 18.58 h-index: 53 From Thomson: Web of Science