Ph.D. degree in 1987 and Doctor of Medicine degree in 1994. Established 40+ years ago a human translational experimental and clinical pain research and innovation unit at Aalborg in Denmark with 60+ researchers and clinicians from all over world affiliated. The basic neurobiological/-physiological research and innovation focuse on 1) fundamental translational pain research, 2) experimental, quantitative, methods for the assessment of pain from musculoskeletal structures in healthy volunteers and pain patients and 3) proof-of-concept and target validation studies on new analgesic, anti-inflammatory and disease modifying compounds. He has published 1,425 peer reviewed journal papers (sum of times cited 55,591, average citations per item 39.01, H-index 112, Web of Science in the area of pain. Been guest professor in Japan, Sweden, Italy, Switzerland, Romania, and USA. Knighted by the Danish Queen President of the International Association for the Study of Pain (IASP) from 2018-2020