Ole Petter Ottersen
- January 9, 2024
- Professor
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Ole Petter Ottersen Biography
| Name | Ole Petter Ottersen |
| Birthday | Mar 17 |
| Birth Year | 1955 |
| Place Of Birth | Kongsberg |
| Home Town | Buskerud |
| Birth Country | Norway |
| Birth Sign | Pisces |
Ole Petter Ottersen is one of the most popular and richest Professor who was born on March 17, 1955 in Kongsberg, Buskerud, Norway. Ole Petter Ottersen (born 17 March 1955) is an Norwegian neuroscientist and physician. He is Rector of the Karolinska Institute in Sweden, and assumed office in August of 2017. Ottersen is a professor of medical sciences at the University of Oslo since 1992 and was the university’s Directly elected Rector for the period from 2009 until 2017.
In 2009 the year 2009, he was elected the Rector for Oslo’s University of Oslo, while Inga Bostad was voted the pro-rector. In the University of Oslo the rector is elected directly to four-year terms by all students and staff who are eligible to be elected for a maximum period of two terms. The Rector is the institution’s ceremonial head as well as chief executive officer and chairperson of the board which means that he is akin to the chancellor as well as the vice chancellor of the British university. Conventionally, and previously under law the rector is chosen from the professors at the university. The deputy of the rector and the second-highest official of the university that is called the pro-rector is directly elected with the 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.
On 20 February 2017 the board of the Karolinska Institute in Sweden nominated Ottersen to become rector of Karolinska Institute. He was formally appointed as rector by the Government of Sweden on 27 April 2017 and assumed the position on 1 August 2017.
In 2001, he along as Jon Storm-Mathisen and Per Brandtzaeg was deemed to be among the top quoted Norwegian scholar in journals of academic research. As per Google Scholar, he has been quoted more than 38,000 times in the scientific literature and has an H-index of 104. In 2002, he was listed on the Institute of Scientific Information list of “Highly Cited Researchers.”
Ole Petter Ottersen Net Worth
| Net Worth | $5 Million |
| Source Of Income | Professor |
| House | Living in own house. |
Ole Petter Ottersen is one of the richest Professor from Norway. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Ole Petter Ottersen 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)
Ottersen earned the cand.med. degree from The University of Oslo in 1980 and also with the dr.med. degree (Med.Sc.D. degree; higher doctorate within the field of medicine) from the university. He was a Research Fellow in the Institute of Anatomy at the University of Oslo from 1978 to 1983 , and was an ophthalmologist (which means in Norway can be described as an academic position in anatomy that is equivalent to reader) in the same institute from 1983 until 1992. He was elevated to Professor in 1992.
He was head of the department at the Institute of Anatomy (1997-1999) and Pro- Dean of 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) which is a center of excellence that is funded through The Research Council of Norway. He was the editor-in chief of the journal Neuroscience between 2006 and 2009.
Ottersen became a board member of Oslo University Hospital in 2011 and became chairman of the board of the Norwegian Association of Higher Education Institutions in 2013. He attended the Bilderberg Group meeting in 2011.
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