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Thomas Sinkjær (born March 9th, 1958) is a Danish scientist and Professor at the Department of Health Science and Technology of Aalborg University. He is part of the research groups Center for Sensory- Motor Interaction (SMI) and Neural Engineering and Neurophysiology.

Education
Thomas Sinkjær has a degree in Electronical and Biomedical Engineering from Aalborg University (1983) where he also completed his PhD (1988). Sinkjær has a doctorate in Medicine from Copenhagen University (1998).

Carreer
Thomas Sinkjær has been a Professor at Aalborg University since 1993. From 1993 to 2006 he was the director of the research Center for Sensory- Motor Interaction (SMI). From 2007 to 2015 he was Director of the Danish National Research Foundation. He has been Research Director of Villum Fonden (see “The Velux Foundations”) from 2015 to 2017. From 2018 to 2019 he was the Vice-President for the Lundbeck Foundation where he also managed the talent programme of the foundation from 2019 to 2021. Since 2020, Sinkjær has been a member of the Presidium of The Royal Danish Academy of Sciences and Letters of which he was elected Secretary General in 2021. Since 2021 he has also been a board member of The Elsass Foundation as well as chairman of the board of Bevica Fonden. Furthermore, Thomas Sinkjær has been elected by the Danish Minister for Higher Education and Science to be a part of the Danish Council for Research and Innovation Policy from 2017-2023.

Thomas Sinkjær is an elected member of several professional organizations, including The Royal Danish Academy of Sciences and Letters and The Danish Academy of Technical Sciences. He has been awarded the Royal Order of Chivalry; Knight of the Order of Dannebrog (Ridder af Dannebrog) Denmark.

Thomas Sinkjær’s research interests are in the basic and clinical aspects of human sensory-motor interaction and the development of new neuro-diagnostic and therapeutic technologies. He has received a number of international honors for his research, including the prestigious Villum Kann Rasmussen Annual Award in Science and Technology (the highest personal research award in Denmark), and the International Steven Hoogendijk Award in Medical Engineering, among others.

Thomas Sinkjær has a great interest and experiences in promoting curiosity-driven research, in developing instruments to increase excellence in research and academic leadership, and to increase the societal impact of research. He is involved in evaluating international and national research funding schemes, research institutions, and research management performance and in developing research and innovation policy recommendations. Thomas

Sinkjær holds positions of trust in both Danish and foreign research organizations, including the Norwegian, the Flemish Research Councils, NSF and the European Research Council. He serves on the boards of several knowledge companies and pricing committees and is the co-founder of four technology companies.

Honors
· 1992: The Queens Silver Medal of Honour

· 1993: The Danish Foundation for Physical Disability Anniversary Award

· 1996: Villum Kann Rasmussen’s Annual Grant

· 1996: Elected as “European personality in Aalborg”

· 1997: Elected as “Ambassador of Aalborg”

· 1998: The Dannin Award for Scientific Research

· 1999: Award for outstanding research, National Association of Polio and Accident Victims (PTU)

· 2001: The Astra-Tech Award

· 2002: Medico-Award, Danish Medical Device Industry for outstanding research within Biomedical Engineering

· 2002: The Award of the Danish Association of Engineers

· 2004: The International Steven Hoogendijk Award in Medical Engineering


 * · 2004: The Research Award of Vanførefonden · 1993-2005: 8 prices for best paper · 2010: Mathilde and Jeppe Juhl's Memorial Scholarship  · 2015: Knight of the Order of the Dannebrog, Denmark

Publications
Thomas Sinkjær has published more than 200 publications and is often cited. For a full list of publications including citations see WoS or Google Scholar:

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