Ole Kiehn#
| Membership Number: | 3498 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | PHYSIOLOGY & NEUROSCIENCE |
| Elected: | 2013 |
| Main Country of Residence: | SWEDEN |
| Homepage(s): | http://www.neuro.ki.se/kiehnlab |
Present and Previous Positions
- 2004 - present Professor in Neuroscience, Karolinska Institutet
- 2001 - present Recruited to KI through ‘Elite-recruitment’ program
- 1997 - 2001 Associate Professor, Institute of Neurophysiology, Copenhagen, Denmark
- 1995 - 2000 Hallas Møller Research Fellow Institute of Neurophysiology, Copenhagen, Denmark
- 1991 - 1995 Group Leader Institute of Neurophysiology, Copenhagen, Denmark
- 1989 - 1990 Postdoctoral Res. Fellow, Sect. of Neurobiol. and Behavior Cornell University, USA, (Prof. Ron Harris-Warrick’s lab)
- 1988 - 1989 Senior Research Associate, Institute of Neurophysiology, Copenhagen
- 1985 - 1988 Junior Research Associate, Institute of Neurophysiology, Copenhagen, Denmark
- 1983 - 1985 Research Assistant Institute of Neurophysiology, Copenhagen, Denmark (Prof. Hans Hultborn’s lab)
Fields of Scholarship
- Cellular and systems neurophysiology applied to the motor system
- Elucidation of the networks underlying locomotion in rodents
Honours and Awards
- 2012 Member of the The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences
- 2011 - 2016 Endowed Research Professorship: Torsten and Ragnar Söderberg’s Professorship from the The Royal Swedish Academy of Science
- 2010 Member of the The Royal Danish Academy of Sciences and Letters
- 2010 5 Year Distinguished professor award Karolinska Institutet
- 2004 Recipient of international Schellenberg Prize in spinal cord research
- 2010 Advanced Grant from the European Research Council
- 2001 - 2006 5 year recruitment position through the competitive ‘Elite-recruitment’ program at KI
- 1996 Recipent of Anna Brochardt Prize
- 1999 - 2001 PI for Human Frontier Science Program grant
- 2001 - 2010 PI on R01 NIH grant to Kiehn lab
- 1990 - 2001 Continuous funding Medical Research Council in Denmark
- 1995 Recipient of Hallas Møller Research Fellowship (5 years salary award from Novo Foundation – one every year in Natural Science-Biomedicine)
- 1990 Recipient of Weimann Research Fellowship (5 years salary award)
