Academic interests
- Neuronal signaling and coding; neuronal computation and dynamics
- Mammalian cortex and hippocampus: functions and signaling mechanisms of neurons and circuits
- Theories and mechanisms of consciousness / unconsciousness, sleep, arousal, attention
- Neuromodulation and brain states
- Electrophysiology. Ion channel functions and evolution
- Memory mechanisms. Functions of the hippocampal-entorhinal memory system and prefrontal cortex
- Synaptic physiology and plasticity
- Brain ischemia and hypoxia, stroke, epilepsy, neurodegeneration, brain ageing
- Brain development and evolution
Teaching
- Neuroscience
- Cortex and higher brain functions
- Learning and Memory
- Consciousness
- Language
- Evolution
- MBV4340/MBV9340: Advanced neurobiology
Background
- 1972-80: Medicine and courses in mathematics, logic, computer science, philosophy, chemistry, University of Oslo.
- 1980: MD, University of Oslo
- 1981-84: Ph.D. student, Institute of Neurophysiology, University of Oslo (Per O. Andersen group)
- 1984–86: Researcher, State Univ. of New York (P.R. Adams group) Fulbright Fellowship and John Fogarty's International Fellowship
- 1984-87: Collaboration on computational modelling wilh Lyle Borg-Graham, Artificial Intelligence lab, MIT
- 1989: PhD University of Oslo
- 1987-95: Postdoctoral fellow and Research fellow, Institute of Physiology, University of Oslo
- 1996-present: Professor in Neurophysiology, Department/Section of Physiology, Institute of Basal Medicine (IMB), The Medical Faculty, University of Oslo
- 2002-2012 Group Leader at the Norw. Res.Council Centre of Excellence (NFR/SFF): Centre for Molecular Biology and Neuroscience, University of Oslo
- 2004-2008 Group Leader at Nordic Centre of Excellence on Neurodegeneration
- Several stays abroad e.g. at Max Planck Institutes (MPI) in Göttingen (Bert Sakmann group), Heidelberg (Sakmann group), and Frankfurt (Jörg Geiger group)
Honoraria
- Elected member of The Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters
- Elected member of The Royal Norwegian Society of Sciences and Letters
- Awarded The Gleditsch Prize 2002 for medicine and biology
Appointments
- 2012-2017: Leader of Scientific Excellence Research Thematic Area (SERTA; Medical faculty, UiO): The Changing Brain
- Member of the board of the Norwegian Neuroscience Society (NNS)
- 2014- 2019: Deputy Member of the Board of the Medical faculty, UiO
- 2014-present: Leader of Academic Forum at University of Oslo (board member 2012-2014)
- Founder and leader of The Forum for Consiousness Research
- 2010-2014: Member of the Scientific Advisory Board of the Neuroscience Center of the University of Helsinki
- 2006-2011: Chair of the Norwegian Node (INCF-N) of the International Neuroinformatics Coordinating Facility
- 2010-2011: Deputy leader of Department of Physiology, IMB, Medical faculty, UiO
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