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The Visiting Professor: "I hope my knowledge and experience will be useful"

Pär Halje, assistant researcher together with visiting professor Ulrik Röijezon in MoRe-Lab. Photo.
Pär Halje, assistant researcher together with visiting professor Ulrik Röijezon in MoRe-Lab. The screen shows a patient with Parkinson's disease performing a movement test. The patient's movements have been measured using motion capture technology.

Ulrik Röijezon is Professor of Physiotherapy at Luleå University of Technology. He also contributes with his expertise as a Visiting Professor at the Faculty.
– It is very inspiring to be able to integrate my work with in Luleå with teaching and projects with colleagues in Lund, he says.

Tell us about your work!

– My work as a Visiting Professor is mainly to contribute with my expertise and network in physiotherapy and motor control and learning. This includes building and developing MoRe-Lab, a health science experimental test environment for the study of movement, activity and behavior. There I am involved in several projects on training of movement control, including the development and evaluation of new tests and rehabilitation methods. 

– In addition, I teach at both undergraduate and graduate levels in motor control and learning, as well as practical analysis of movement behavior in a laboratory environment in various health conditions.

Teaching with Ulrik Röijezon. Physiotherapy students test training of sensorimotor control with VR headsets. Photo.
Teaching with Ulrik Röijezon. Physiotherapy students test training of sensorimotor control with VR-headset.

What do you appreciate about being a visiting professor?

– It is very inspiring to be able to integrate what I work with in Luleå with teaching and projects together with colleagues in Lund. I have always appreciated Skåne and Lund. Partly as a study and work environment, but I also have a personal geographical connection as my mother was from Skåne.

– I graduated as a physiotherapist at Lund University in 1996 and it feels very good to be able to give back to the students who are now studying physiotherapy at the Faculty. I hope that my knowledge and experience will benefit the Faculty of Medicine and future physiotherapists, both in clinical practice and research as well as innovation.

Visiting professor – how it works

Why do we have visiting professors?

A visiting professor brings special expertise of value to the specific research area.

Who can become a visiting professor? 

To be eligible for employment as a visiting professor at Lund University is a person who holds an employment as a professor at a reputable university within or outside Sweden or who is deemed to have equivalent competence is eligible for employment.

Who appoints a visiting professor? 

The formal decision is made by the Vice-Chancellor.

How does it work? 

First, a request is sent to the Faculty Office. The request is then handled in the service working committee (part of the faculty management), where it is examined whether all documents meet the faculty's guidelines. If the position of visiting professor is considered valuable to the faculty, the matter is forwarded to the Vice-Chancellor for a decision. If the person is not already a professor, the application is examined by experts and handled by the Academic Appointments Board to ensure that the person is qualified for professorship before the matter is passed on to the Vice-Chancellor.

Questions? 

See Guidelines for academic appointments | medicin.lu.se

Ulrik Röijezon. Photo.

Name: Ulrik Röijezon (Link to Luleå University of Technology)
Works as: Visiting professor at the Department of Health Sciences. 
Professor of Physiotherapy at Luleå University of Technology.