Education and employment
1988 MSc (magna cum laude) in Biology, Dept. of Biochemistry, Parma University, Italy
1989 Habilitation as Biologist, Parma University, Italy
1989-92 Italian National Research Council (CNR) research fellowship, Institute for Protein Biochemistry and Enzymology, Naples, Italy
1993-95 Forskerakademiet and Independent Research Fund Denmark, Natural Science (DFF-FNU) research fellowships, Dept. of Biological Sciences, Aarhus University (AU)
1995 PhD in Zoophysiology, Dept. of Biological Sciences, AU
1995-99 Post-doc, Centre for Respiratory Adaptation of the DFF-FNU, Dept. of Biological Sciences, AU
2000-06 Steno- and Skou-stipendium Research Associate Professor, Dept. of Biological Sciences, AU
2006-16 Associate Professor in Molecular Physiology (lektor MSK), Dept. of Biological Sciences, AU
2016-19 Professor MSO in Comparative Physiology, Bioscience, AU
2019- Professor in Integrative Animal Physiology, Bioscience, AU
Scientific Management
2019-22 Member of the Independent Research Fund Denmark (DFF-FNU)
2019 Member of the Scientific Advisory Committee, Department of Biosciences, University of Oslo
2017-18 Vice-Head of Department, Head of Work Environment Committee (AMO), Bioscience, AU
2003-18 Member of the PhD field committee, Bioscience, AU (Vice-Head of committee 2015-18)
2008- Member of the Scientific Steering Committee of the International Conference Series on Oxygen Binding and Sensing Proteins (O2BiP biannual conference, approx. 120 delegates)
2007-12 Panel Board Member of ISA (Institute of Storage Ring Facilities), AU
Research visits at Univ. La Sapienza, Rome, Italy (1999), Duke Univ. USA (2001), ETH Lab Inorg. Chem., Zürich (2003), Univ. of Auckland, NZ (2005), Univ. of Washington, Seattle, USA (2010).