SKAKKEBAEK, ERIK

Professor Niels E. Skakkebæk is an adjunct professor in testicular dysgenesis and endocrine disruption at University of Copenhagen and senior researcher at the Department of Growth and Reproduction at The Juliane Marie Centre, Rigshospitalet. His primary research areas are testicular cancer, testicular dysgenesis syndrome (TDS) and Endocrine disrupters. Professor Niels E. Skakkebæk has published more than 700 research papers (H-index 114 (ISI)) and supervised numerous Ph.D. students. He is Doctor H.C. at Turku University, Finland, and University of Liege, Belgium. He has received several prizes for his research, including The Andrea Prader Prize (European Society for Paediatric Endocrinology), The Novo Nordic Prize, The KFJ Prize (University of Copenhagen ) and The Lundbeck Prize. Niels Skakkebaek has been Professor at University of Copenhagen since 1980.