Academic interests
- Neuroscience
- Neuron – glia interaction
- Inter- and intracellular signalling in the brain; glutamate, GABA, glycine
- Physical exercise, influence on the brain
Courses taught
- Medical curriculum: Anatomy
Background
Education
- Dr. med. (PhD), University of Oslo, 1976
- Cand. Med. (MD), University of Oslo, 1965
Positions
- Research Physician, Norwegian Defence Research Establishment, Division of Toxicology, Kjeller, Norway, 1968 - 1977
- Locum tenens Professor of Anatomy, Inst. of Medical Biology, Univ of Tromsø, Norway, 1975
- Assoc Professor, Anatomy, University of Oslo, 1978 - 1984
- Full Professor, Anatomy, University of Oslo, 1984 - 2011
- Anatomy Department Head, 2004 - 2008
Web sites
Awards
- Elected member Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters 1993
- Elected member Royal Norwegian Society of Sciences and Letters 2005
- Elected member Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts 2021
- Top rating (“excellent”) by international Review Panel on Research in Biology etc in Norway 2000
- Voss' pris for anatomisk forskning 1981
- Monrad-Krohns pris for fremragende nevrologisk forskning 1989
- Fridtjof Nansen Award for Excellence in Science 2001
- University of Oslo Research Prize 2004
- Lundbeckfonden’s Nordic Researcher Prize 2005 (with OP Ottersen)
- Anders Jahre’s Prize for Medical Research 2006
- “Highly Cited Researcher” ISI since 2002 (top 0.5% most cited of the world’s scientists) http://www.isihighlycited.com/
- Total citations >30,000, H-index 91 (Google Scholar 2023)
Offices
- Senior Professor (em), Division of Anatomy, Department of Molecular Medicine, Institute of Basic Medical Sciences (IMB), University of Oslo, 2011 -
- Co-Director & Media Contact, Centre for Molecular Biology and Neuroscience (CMBN), University of Oslo, http://www.cmbn.no/
- Inaugural Chairman of the Prize Committee of the Kavli Prize in Neuroscience 2005 - 2012
- Member UiO Prize Committee 2008
- Member FENS Forum programme committee 2011
Collaboration
- Farrukh A Chaudhry, UiO
- Linda H Bergersen, UiO
- Evandro Fei Fang, A-hus & UiO
- Ulrik Wisløff, NTNU
- Christer Betsholtz, Uppsala University & Karolinska Institutet, Sweden
- Robert Zorec, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia