Ole Petter Ottersen
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Professor Ole Petter Ottersen Dr.med. |
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| Rector of the University of Oslo | |
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Assumed office 2009 |
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| Preceded by | Geir Ellingsrud |
| Rector of the Karolinska Institute | |
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Taking office 2017 |
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| Succeeding | Karin Dahlman-Wright (acting) |
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| Born | 17 March 1955 Kongsberg |
| Nationality | Norwegian |
Ole Petter Ottersen (born 17 March 1955) is a Norwegian physician and neuroscientist. He is Professor of medicine and serves as the elected Rector of the University of Oslo since 2009; his term ends in June 2017. In April 2017 he was appointed by the Government of Sweden as Rector of Karolinska Institute from August 2017.
Ottersen graduated with the cand.med. degree at the University of Oslo in 1980 and with the dr.med. degree (Med.Sc.D.; a higher doctorate in medicine) at the same university in 1982. He was a Research Fellow at the Institute of Anatomy at the University of Oslo from 1978 to 1983 and a prosector (which in Norway is an academic rank in anatomy equal to reader) at the same institute from 1983 to 1992. He was promoted to Professor in 1992.
He has been head of department of the Institute of Anatomy (1997–1999), Pro-Dean for Research of the Faculty of Medicine (2000–2002) and director of the Centre for Molecular Biology and Neuroscience at the University of Oslo (2002–2009), a centre of excellence funded by the Research Council of Norway. He was editor-in-chief of the journal Neuroscience 2006–2009.
In 2009, he was elected by the employees and students as the rector (i.e. the highest academic official, chief executive officer and chairman of the board) of the University of Oslo, while Inga Bostad was elected as the Pro-Rector. In 2013, he was reelected for a second term, while Ruth Vatvedt Fjeld was elected as the new Pro-Rector; she resigned the following year and was succeeded by Ragnhild Hennum.
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