Professor Arne Astrup

Head Professor, Department of Human Nutrition
Faculty of Life Sciences
University of Copenhagen
Rolighedsvej 30, DK-1958 Frederiksberg C Copenhagen
Denmark
+ 45 3533 2476
+ 45 3533 2483
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Professor Arne Astrup is the Head of Department of Human Nutrition at the Faculty of Life Sciences, University of Copenhagen, Denmark. He was awarded the Chair in Nutrition at the University in 1990.  Professor Astrup’s main areas of interest and research include physiology and pathophysiology of energy and substrate metabolism, with a special emphasis on the etiology and treatment of obesity. His major research in collaboration with his group covered an extensive area which includes participation in the EU multicenter studies: EUROSTARCH, CARMEN, NUGENOB, DIABESITY, DIOGENES, EMOB, and HEALTHGRAIN. He is Editor-in-Chief of the IASO Journal: Obesity Reviews and is a member of the editorial boards of The International Journal of Obesity and The Journal of the Danish Medical Association. He received the following honours: Servicers’ Award for Outstanding Obesity Research in 1990, the IASO André Mayer Award in 1994, the Danone Chair in Nutrition in 2002 at The University of Antwerp, and The Faculty of Life Sciences and the University of Copenhagen Communication Prize 2007. He is the current President of The International Association for the Study of Obesity (IASO) 2006-2010 and Director of the Danish Nordea Foundation OPUS research centre 2009-14.