Hakan Westerblad

Hakan Westerblad
Head researcher
Institute of Sport Science and Innovations
hakan.westerblad@lsu.lt

Education

Employment

Rolf Edgar Lake Postdoctoral Fellow at University of Sydney, 1990-1992
Associate professor (forskarassistent), Swedish Medical Research Council at KI 1992-1998
Senior researcher (forskare), KI 1999-2002
Senior researcher (forskare), Swedish Medical Research Council at KI 2002-2009
Professor in cellular muscle physiology, KI 2003-2024
Professor emeritus, KI 2024-present
Head of Department of physiology & Pharmacology, KI, 2017-2022
Head researcher, Lithuanian Sports University, 2024 – present

Honors

Doctor Honoris Causa, Lithuanian Sports University, 2014
Australian Scandinavian Physiological Society Exchange Lecturer 2012
Fellow of the Society (Physiological Society), 2017
Received the Swedish Central Association for the Promotion of Athletics´ (SCIF´s) Grand Prize for Sports Science, 2019
Member of the Swedish Olympic Committee medical research advisory board, 2021-
Marion J. Siegman Annual Award Lectureship, selected by American Physiological Society, 2022
Honorary Skou Professor of Cellular Muscle Physiology, University of Aarhus, 2023-

Supervision of PhD students

Editorial board

Journal of Physiology, Reviewing Editor 2005-11, Senior Editor 2011-2014
European Journal of Applied Physiology, Editor 2008-12, Editor in Chief 2012-2024

Bibliometri

Have published >200 peer-reviewed research papers

Web of Science: 15,300 citations, ~700 citations/year in recent years; h-index = 68

Google Scholar: 5th most cited researcher in Muscle physiology