Olaf B. Paulson Professor, DMSc

Professor, Chief Neurologist, DMSc (dr.med.)
Dept. Neurology and Neurobiology Research Unit, 9201
Rigshospitalet, Copenhagen University Hospital
Blegdamsvej 9, DK-2100 Copenhagen, Denmark
Phone: +45 3545 6710    Fax: +45 3545 6713
Email: paulson#nru.dk
 
 

Education and academic degrees:

MD from University of Copenhagen 1966. Educational Council for Foreign Medical Graduates Examination (US) 1966. Board certified in neurology 1974. DMSc (dr.med.) from Univ. Copenhagen 1970.
 

Present appointments:

Professor of neurology, chief consultant, Neurobiology Research Unit
Chairman of the Danish Research Center for Magnetic Resonance, Copenhagen University Hospital, Hvidovre www.drcmr.dk
Chairman of the Department of Clinical Neuroscience and Psychiatry at the University of Copenhagen www.sund.ku.dk
 
 

Selected Scientific and Academic Activities:

Chairman of the Medical Council at Rigshospitalet 1981-86. Member of the board of directors of the Danish Society for Neuroscience 1984-2005, President 1997-2000, Sekretary 2000-05. Has been co-editor in chief of the Eur J Clin Invest; member of the editorial board of J Cereb Blood Flow Metab and of Cerebrovasc Brain Metab Rev; referee for several journals; member of the review committees for the European Biomed II and Biotech programs; council member of the European Society for Clinical Investigation; council member and chairman of the Scandinavian Neurological Association; council member of the European Neurological Society; council member of the Society of Cerebral Blood Flow and Metabolism 1989-93, and from 1987, president 1999-2001, chairman of the society’s Program Committee 1991-93 and president of its biennial meeting in 1999. Chairman of the local organizing committee of the European Society for Magnetic Resonance in Medicine and Biology meeting in Copenhagen 2004. Member of the several review committees for the European Commission.
Adjudicate at several thesis and committees for professorship.
 

Research, international collaboration, supervisor and leader function:

The research, initiated in the 1960's dealt with cerebral circulation and transport across the blood-brain barrier. During the last two decades brain imaging using SPECT, PET and MR has been the main research teams.
Supervised more than 20 young investigators with their thesis.
Has received major national and international funding. International collaboration with several institutes in Europe, USA and Japan through the years, including funding from The Human Brain Project, USA and several EU funded projects.
 

Honors:

Monrad-Krohn Prize for Neurological Research, 1988, University of Oslo, Norway.
General Consul Ernst Carlsens Foundations Prize 1997, Copenhagen.
Niels A. Lassen Prize 2000, Copenhagen.
William Nielsen Foundation, 2002, Sorø, Denmark.
The Lundbeck Foundations Nordic Award for Outstanding Research, 2003, Denmark.
The Mogens Fog Honorary Price, 2004, Denmark.

Member of The Royal Danish Academy of Sciences and Letters since 2000.
 

Publications:

More than 500 dealing with neurological and neurobiological topics.