Thomas Sinkjær

Dr. Med., Ph.D., M.Sc.E.E.

E-mail: ts

Short Curriculum Vitae

Director and professor, Center for Sensory-Motor Interaction, Aalborg University, 1993-.

Research and teaching interests within Motor Control and Neural Rehabilitation Technology.

His research interests within Motor Control include the interaction of central control with reflex circuitry of the spinal cord and the intrinsic mechanical properties of the skeletal muscle system.

Within Neural rehabilitation research. His interest is in development of methods to restore sensory-motor function through neural prostheses and methods which enhances functinal neural plastic changes.

Education

• M.Sc.E.E., Aalborg University, Denmark, 1983, specialisation in biomedical engineering.
• Ph.D., Aalborg University, Denmark, 1989 (joint venture with Faculty of Medicine, Uni. of Calgary, Canada).
• Dr.med., Copenhagen University, 1997.

International research training and collaboration

• Visiting student, Uni. of Calgary, Canada, (1984-86).
• Postdoc. Northwestern Uni., Chicago (1989-90).
• Visiting professor, Simon Fraser University, Vancouver (1997, four months).
• Partner and co-ordinator in EU-projects within Framework 2, 3, 4, and 5 (BIOMED, TMR, and. TELEMATICS).
• Research and student exchange with several institutions including University of Twente (The Netherlands), Simon Fraser University and University of Edmonton (Canada), Emory University and Case Western Reserve University (USA), University of Copenhagen and Aarhus (Denmark).

Referee

• Referee for several international science journals, e.g. IEEE TRE, IEEE BME, J. Physiology, and J. Neurophysiology.
• Referee for research councils/foundations in Belgium, England, Italy, Israel, Singapore, Slovenia, Switzerland, and European Union research programmes.

Offices

• Board member of the Danish Advanced Technology Foundation. Appointed by the Danish Minister of Science.
• Vice-chairman, Dept. of Health Science & Technology, Aalborg University, Denmark.
• Vice director of University College of Health - Aalborg (Sundheds CVU Aalborg).
• Member of the Board of Directors, NOVI Science Park.
• Member of the Board of the Danish Research Councils, 1997-2003 (appointed by the Danish Minister of Research).
• Member of the Board of the Danish Society for Biomedical Engineering.
• Member of the board of Science and Innovation for the Living (BioMed Community).
• Partner and co-founder of three development companies, NEURODAN, started in 1995, NEUROCON, started in 2000, and NEURORETRAIN, started in 2001, within implantable devices to restore motor functions.

Awards

15 national and international awards, including the prestigious Villum Kann Rasmussens Award for outstanding international research (1997).

Publications

Control of Movement for the Physically Disabled

authored by
DB Popovic and T Sinkjær

• Publication list