Prof. Bengt Saltin Copenhagen Muscle Research Centre University of Copenhagen, Denmark * cmrc@rh.dk Lecture: “Overview of open non-linear problems in exercise physiology”

M.D. Stockholm 1962; Ph.D. (Medicine) Stockholm, 1964; Assistant professor; Exercise Physiology, Karolinska Institute (KI) Stockholm 1965-68; Associate Professor; Applied Physiology, KI Stockholm 1968-73; Professor, Human Physiology, August Krogh Institute, University of Copenhagen (UC) 1973-90; Professor of Physiology (invited appointment) KI Stockholm 1990-93; Professor of Human Physiology UC 1994-97; Director of the Copenhagen Muscle Research Centre, Copenhagen 1993-; Adjunct Professor, UC 1998-.

A traditional exercise physiologist using unique human experimental models to elucidate roles of heart and skeletal muscle in limiting the human maximal aerobic power and to what extent phenotype expression is modulated by physical activity and training.

Docent in exercise physiology, KI, Stockholm, 1964; Member of the Royal Danish Academy of Sciences and Letters, 1984; American College of Sport Science: Citation Award, 1976, Honor Award, 1990; Ridder af Dannebrog, 1995; The Novo Nordisk Award, 1999, The IOC Olympic Prize on Sport Sciences, endowed by Pfizer, 2002, The Danish Heart Foundation Research Prize, 2002.

Doctor Honoris Causa at University of Paris, France, 1990, University of Athens, Greece, 1994, University of Guelph, Canada, 1997, Aristotle University, Thessaloniki, Greece, 1998, Norwegian University of Physical Education, Oslo, Norway, 1998, University of Tartu, Estonia, 1998, University of Jyväskylä, Finland, 2000.

Author of more than 300 original articles and 150 reviews or chapters in books. Editor of a number of scientific books including several textbooks in physiology for medical and post graduate students.