Professor at the University of Copenhagen,
Co-chair of the Danish Headache Center, Department of Neurology, Glostrup Hospital in Copenhagen, Denmark.
Co-founder of the European Federation of Neurological Societies and of the European Brain Council
Past President of the International Headache Society and current Chairman of the Headache Classification Committee
Professor Olesen’s research interests are focused on migraine and other headaches and span from clinical studies and classification over human pathophysiological studies involving particularly brain blood flow and MR all the way to basic research into neural and vascular signaling mechanisms.