Professor
Personal data
Title: Professor, DMSc, PhD
Position: Professor, Department of Psychology and Behavioural Sciences, Aarhus University
Head of PN Research Lab, Psychology & Neuroscience, Placebo & Nocebo
Born: September 4, 1974
Status: Married. Three children
E-mail: lenevase@psy.au.dk
Academic Degrees
23.03.2018 DMSc ‘Can insights from placebo and nocebo mechanism studies improve the Randomized Controlled Trial?’, AU HE
09.06.2006 PhD ‘Empirical investigations of factors which may contribute to placebo analgesia’, Psychology, AU BSS
14.04.2002 MSc, Psychology, AU BSS
Employment
01.12.2018 Professor, AU BSS
01.08.2012 Professor MSO, AU BSS
01.01.2010 Associate professor, AU BSS
01.06.2006 Assistant professor, AU BSS
Other academic qualifications
Other scientific activities (selected)
2020 Reviewer of Center grants for the German Research Council
2018- Scientific Program Committee, World Congress on Pain
Conferences
Five keynote or opening speeches, chaired more than 15 symposiums, and given more than 65 talks at international conferences and meetings including the World Congress for the International Association for the Study of Pain.
Publications
More than 100 peer-reviewed international publications in high-impact journals including the Lancet (JIF:59.10).
H-index is 28/36 and total citations almost 3,171/4,692 (Scopus/Google Scholar). Sixty percent of publications are published in top ten journals, and field-weighted citation indicates a high impact on the field.
Academical Honors (selected)
2021: Shortlisted for the Danish National Elite Researcher Prize
2015: Keynote speaker at the 5th international Congress on Neuropathic Pain “Placebo, Nocebo and Neuropathic pain”
2010: The Faculty of Social Science’s “Young researcher award”, Aarhus University
Project management (selected)
2021-2026 Effect of Patient Education and duloxetine, alone or in combination, Trygfonden.
2019-2024 Animal Contact, Trygfonden.
2017- Head of the international network PREDICT (Placebo REsponses Determined In Clinical Trials), which joins world-leading placebo
researchers, EFPIAS (The European Federation of Pharmaceutical Industries and Associates)
and regulatory agencies to improve clinical trial methodology.
2009-2015 Head of the workpackage ‘placebo effects’, EuroPAIN, IMI
2009-2015 Head of the workpackage ‘pain catastrophizing’, MindLab, The investment Capital of University Research (UNIK)
Scientific focus
International collaboration
More than seven long visits to four prestigious international institutions totalling almost 5 years abroad. LV currently collaborates with more than 20 international and 20 national leading centers. During the last five years more than 15 international researchers has visited her laboratory.
Selected exchange
Selected collaboration
(Non-pharmacological treatments, 5 publications, exchange of 2 PhD students)
(Expectation and pharmacological treatments, 12 publications, co-supervision of 3 PhD students and 2 postdocs)
(Pain processing, 5 publications, co-supervision of 2 PhD students and 1 postdoc)
(Expectations and pain processing, 8 publications, co-supervision of 2 PhD students)
Supervision of students
Supervised 25 PhD students (10 as primary supervisor), 7 postdocs (2 as primary supervisor), and 15 visiting researchers. Several have won international awards such as a Fullbright Scholarship, The Pain Citations Prize and the Umberto Veronesi Prize.