Ole Petter Ottersen

Ole Petter Ottersen is the elected Rector of the University of Oslo for the period 2009-2013. The Rector is the chairman of the board and, on behalf of the board, has overall responsibility for and management of the university's activities. The Rector is the highest leader for the academic activities at the university.

Ole Petter Ottersen graduated as cand.med. from the University of Oslo in 1980 and received his doctorate in medicine in 1982. He became a professor at the Department of Anatomy in 1992. In the period 1997-1999, Ottersen was the academic head of the Department of Anatomy, in 2000–2002 Pro-Dean for Research at the Faculty of Medicine, and from 2002 he has been the head of the Center for Molecular Biology and Neuroscience - one of Norway's centers for outstanding research.

Ottersen has been awarded several prizes for his research, including Anders Jahre's medical prize for younger researchers in 1990 and Anders Jahre's medical prize (the main prize) in 2008.

Ole Petter Ottersen has a broadly composed rector team that aims to promote the quality of research and teaching at all faculties. Ottersen and his team want to develop the University of Oslo into an internationally leading broad-based university with research at its center.