Jørn Wulff Helge
Professor
Jørn Wulff Helge, born April 24 1965
Professor
PhD, FECSS, part of Research group Xlab (www.xlab.dk)
Education
Jan. 1987 Bachelor Maths, Univ. of Aarhus
Jan. 1993 MSc Sport Science, Univ. of Copenhagen
May 1997 PhD at Univ. of Copenhagen
Positions
1997-2000 Post Doc Human Physiology, Faculty of Science, Univ. CPH.
2000-2002 Post Doc Copenhagen Muscle Research Centre
2002-2014 Assoc. Professor, Dept. Biomedical Sciences (BMI)
2014-2018 Professor MSO, BMI
2016-2019 Head of Graduate School Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences
2018 Dec. - Professor, BMI
Administration and Leadership
2006-2017 Section head and board member of BMI
2007-2010 Member of study board for Public Health
2017+ Member of leadership team BMI
Change of environment
1994 7 months research with Prof Len Storlien at Univ. of Wollongong, NSW, Australia
2000 3 months research with Prof Ole Sejersted at Ullevaal Hosp., Oslo Univ. Oslo, Norway
2015/16 3 months research with Prof John Hawley at Catholic Univ., Melbourne, Australia
International collaborations
I have ongoing collaborations with Prof. Jim Cotter, University of Otago, NZ, Prof. Robert Boushel, University of British Columbia, Canada, Assoc. Prof. Marcin Baranowski, University of Bialystok, Poland, Prof. Paul Greenhaff, University of Nottingham, UK, Prof. Jose Calbet and Assoc. Prof. Ignacio Ara Royo.
Commissions, councils etc.
2012-2017 Member of European College of Sports Science scientific Committee
2012 - Member of Biochemistry of Exercise Scientific Board
2017 - Elected member of ECSS Executive Board
2019 - President elect ECSS
Large grants
I was one of four main applicants to receive 24 mill. Danish kr. to the DANHES investigation (a study of 18.000 Danes Smoking, alcohol, diet and exercise habits). I was a partner in the EU-grant,”Metapredict” (6 mill. Euro) that aimed to determine genetic predictor profiles. I was a co-Pi in two 2016 Excellence grants; the Copenhagen Women’s Health (cws.ku.dk, 25.3 mill. Dkk) grant and the LIFESTAT (www.lifestat.dk, 22.3 mill Dkk) grant. I am a senior researcher in the Centre of Healthy Aging (http://healthyaging.ku.dk; (CEHA I + II, 2010-2018; 300 mill. kr.), CEHA III, (CEHA III, 2019-2023; 78 mill. Kr.) received from the Nordea Foundation.
Awards and prices
Silver medal in Physiology A 1992 at Univ. of CPH.
Young Investigator Award at European College of Sports Science. 1996. Nice, France.
Received Johan Quintin and wife’s honorary prize, February 2008.
Teaching
I have taught physiology at several courses; Medical students 4th semester; “Energy metabolism”, “Human Physiology and disease” for Public Health, Health and IT and Medical Technical students and exercise Physiology at all levels at Sports Science (Faculty of Science, Univ. CPH). I was head of Bachelor, Master and VKO assignments for the Medical study (from Oct. 2009 – Feb. 2016). I have been supervisor for >100 bachelor, master and Research year students from Medicine, Public Health, Sports Science, Human Biology, Molecular Biomedicine and Human Nutrition.
Supervision
I have been principal supervisor for six completed PhD and co-supervisor for twelve completed PhD´s. I am currently principal supervisor for five PhD-students I have supervised four post docs.
have been supporting one Doctoral candidate (Dr Med).
Evaluator and opponent
Since 2001, I have been an opponent on 36 Danish and International PhD-thesis’s.
Scientific focus areas
Insulin sensitivity and muscle bioactive lipids; Regulation and physiological importance of maximal fat oxidation; Training and diet effect of interaction on regulation and/or performance; Adipose tissue inflammation, regulation and function; Biological age as a tool to improve lifestyle, Factors that determine maintenance of lifestyle interventions and weight loss.
Science dissemination
I am an author or –co-author on 15 popular science books. I and my research group contribute every year to the “Culture Night” and “The peoples democratic festival”. In 2018-2019 I was a consultant onhe translation of ”Idrættens Træningslære” (Released from Munksgaard, January 2019) from Norwegian to Danish. I was one of four editors on the Norwegian version and an author on three chapters in the book.
Publications
My Orcid identification is; orcid.org/0000-0001-9724-5423 and my Researcher ID: I-7096-2012.
Uddannelse
Cand Scient Idræt og Matematik
ID: 5133
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Meal induced gut hormone secretion is altered in aerobically trained compared to sedentary young healthy males
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Two weeks of metformin treatment enhances mitochondrial respiration in skeletal muscle of AMPK kinase dead but not wild type mice
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An optimized histochemical method to assess skeletal muscle glycogen and lipid stores reveals two metabolically distinct populations of type I muscle fibers
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