Associate Professor UlrikDalgas

Biography:UlrikDalgas, PhD; Associate professor, Section of Sport Science, Dep. Public Health, Aarhus University, Denmark.

UlrikDalgas is an exercise physiologist specialized in rehabilitation of neurological patients based at Aarhus University in Denmark, where he is head of a research team specialized in exercise and neurological diseases. In particular most of his research focuses on the effects of exercise therapy in subjects with multiple sclerosis (MS). His main research covers the effects of different exercise modalities (e.g. resistance training and endurance training) and aspects of exercise therapy related to selected groups of MS patients (e.g. thermo-sensitive patients or fatigued patients). Much of his ongoing research focuses on understanding the effects of exercise on brain function, and he is trying to determine, whether long-term exercise is a disease modifying intervention in MS. He is previous executive board member and secretary for the European organization Rehabilitation in Multiple Sclerosis (RIMS) and executive board member for the Danish MS Research Association (DAREMUS). Finally, he has authored more than100 scientific papers and several book chapters on the topic.