Research profile

Director: Center for Rehabilitation Robotics, HST, SUND, AAU

The focus of the research is to increase the quality of life for individuals living with severe disabilities through new knowledge and technologies within diagnostics, human-machine interfaces neurorehabilitation engineering and robotics.

Research profile

Innovation and Spin-off

- Inventor of the product iTongue and resulting in the Spin-off comapny TKS A/S - and for a period CTO. iTongue allows paralysed users to control computers and powered wheelchairs with the tongue, https://tks-technology.dk/produkter/

- PI on the development of the assist as needed EMG triggered FES module for the Robert SAS neurorehabilitation robot for e.g. stroke and SCI from the comapny Life Science Robotics, https://www.lifescience-robotics.com/solutions/sas/

-  Partner on the innovation project EMOTIVO, a hand rehabilitation device, InnoExplorer grant form the Innovation Fund Denmark

- Several patents - see under publications

Research profile

Head of Rehabilitation Engineering and Robotics Laboratory

https://rerob.aau.dk/

Head of Biorobtics Laboratory

Administrative profile

2024 -> Member of the Academic Council of the Faculty of Medicine, Aalborg Univesity

2024 -> Memeber of the AAU Parallel Language Advisory Group

2023 -> Member of HST borad for Diversity and equality

2021-> Head of  Center for Rehabilitation Robotics, HST,AAU

2021-> Research Group Leader - Neurorehabilitation Robotics and Engineering Research group, HST, SUND, AAU

2018-2021: Leader of one of the 5 large strategic interdiciplinary AAU projects: EXOTIC

2014-> Member of the HST Co-operation Committee

2011-2021: Member of the steering group of Aalborg University Robotics

2007-20011: Leader of the Virtual Center for Technologies for Aging og Handicapped (V-Cen-TAH), AAU

PhD Supervision

2006 -> Main supervisor of 9 PhD students, co supervisor of 5 PhD students

2023-> Opponent at 2 External PhD defenses

2006-> Chair of 5 PhD defenses