Emeritus professor at University of Copenhagen and Department for Brain- and Spinal Cord Injuries, Bodil Eskesen Center, Rigshospitalet, Denmark. Visiting professor at Sunnaas Rehabilitation Hospital, Norway. Supervised >20 PhD students (nurses, PTs, engineers, psychologist, dietician, MDs). Had editorial functions for several international journals and reviewed for >45 indexed journals. Have been opponent to doctoral theses and evaluated projects etc. for research councils and universities worldwide. Have been and is on several committees and boards including past president of ISCoS and NoSCoS. Worked for inclusion of all SCI professionals and cosumers in the societies. Among other received ISCoS Society medal and ASIA, Indian and NoSCoS lifetime achievement awards. Made research in many aspects related to individuals with spinal cord injury including standardization of data collection. Published around 400 articles in PubMed, h-index 83, 35 book-chapters, 75 proceedings, etc. In addition, articles, and books about hitch-hiking in Africa, the Chinese and Albanian health systems. Was part of sports for disabled since 1978 including changing the classification system to be sports specific and the name to Paralympics. Danish champion in swimming. Has broken appr. 240 Danish and 70 Nordic masters’ swimming records, several times ranked top-10 in the World. Have visited 170 countries.