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ORCID: 0000-0003-4990-509X Born and educated in the UK, conducted a PhD at University College London in the field of parasitology. Moved to Karolinska Institutet in Stockholm, Sweden in 1994 and became Professor of Immunotherapy in Neurological diseases there in 2013. Leads a research group focusing on immunotherapy in ALS, Alzheimer’s disease and Multiple Sclerosis. Currently Academic Vice President of Doctoral Education. Past Chair of the International Council at Karolinska Institutet. Past president of the international doctoral education organisation ORPHEUS. Honorary Doctorate from the Iuliu Hatieganu University of Medicine and Pharmacy (UMF) Cluj-Napoca, Romania (2023). 2008-09 – 2018-12 Karolinska Institutet (KI); Central Director of Doctoral Education (Quality Assurance (QA); Doctoral education programmes; PhD supervisor training 2005-10 – 2018-12 KI; Dept of Clinical Neuroscience Director of Doctoral Education (Selection of new and monitoring of 286 PhD students) 2015-2022 ORPHEUS President 1999-05 – present KI; Centre for Molecular Medicine (CMM) Independent Research Group Leader (Research in autoimmunity/cell biology) 1997-01 – present Diamyd Medical AB Scientific advisor; Consultant/Part-time employment (QA; Preclinical studies; Vaccine formulation) 1997-01 – 1999-04 KI; CMM Kung Gustav V:s 80års jubileumsfond Post-doctoral fellow (Research in autoimmunity) 1996-01 – 1997-01 KI; CMM Dept of Medicine Post-doctoral fellow (Research in autoimmunity) 1994-04 – 1995-12 KI; Microbiology & Tumor Biology Centre (MTC) KI Guest Researcher (Research in parasite immunology) 1994-04 – 1996-04 KI; MTC Wellcome Trust Travel Fellow (Research in parasite immunology) 1991-06 – 1994-04 London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine Medical Research Council (MRC) Post-doctoral fellow (Research in parasite immunology) 1990-01 – 1991-06 University College London (UCL) MRC Post-doctoral fellow (Research in neurochemistry) Specialties: Scientific research - neuroimmunology, cell biology, protein chemistry, vaccinology Doctoral education - pedagogy, teaching, administration