Thomas Munk Laursen

Research

My main area of research is to examine risk factors for psychiatric disorders and subsequent outcome after onset of psychiatric disorders. At present, I am studying:

• Mortality in psychiatric disorders
• Somatic comorbidity in persons with severe mental disorders and the impact on mortality
• Sub-optimal health care for people with psychiatric disorders
• Genetics; How does it interact with psychiatric disorder?
• Dementia: risk factors and outcome
• How does psychiatric disorder in the parents affect the children?
• Reproductive events in persons with psychiatric disorders
• Homelessness and psychiatric disorders

Profile

I’m working as a professor at The National Centre for Register-Based Research, Aarhus University (AU), Denmark. My research area is within the epidemiology of mental disorder. I have an extensive experience with using a whole range of Danish population registries as data sources, and I have for several years independently been the principal investigator on a range of projects as well as being a consultant on other projects. I have been the first-author on 20+ peer reviewed papers and have co-authored more than 150 papers, all of which have been published in high ranking peer-reviewed journals. I have collaborated with a range of Danish and foreign researchers and has over the years established a wide network within the field of register-based research. I am ad hoc peer-reviewer on several high impact journals (e.g. NEJM, JAMA, and Lancet).

Job responsibilities

My primary responsibility is research, which involves designing and conducting scientific work, analyzing data, writing research papers, and presenting findings at conferences. I work closely with colleagues and external partners to advance our understanding in the field of psychiatric epidemiology and contribute to new discoveries.