Karin Jensen

Karin Jensen

Professor | Docent
Telephone: +46852482775
Visiting address: Nobels väg 9, D3, 17165 Solna
Postal address: K8 Klinisk neurovetenskap, K8 Neuro Jensen, 171 77 Stockholm

About me

  • I am a clinical psychologist and neuroscientist specializing in the human perception of pain, placebo effects and long-term pain conditions. I lead an interdisciplinary research group at the Department of Clinical Neuroscience (CNS) at Karolinska Institutet.

    My scientific goal is to understand the cognitive mechanisms and brain pathways involved in the generation and regulation of pain in humans.

    Faculty positions
    2023 - now.....Professor of Cognitive Neuroscience, Karolinska Institutet, Sweden
    2019 - 2023...Associate Professor, Karolinska Institutet, Sweden
    2014 - 2019....Assistant Professor, Karolinska Institutet, Sweden
    2013 - 2017.....Assistant Professor, Harvard Medical School, USA

    Other merits
    2022 - now.....Deputy Head, Neuro Division, CNS, Karolinska Institutet
    2022 - 2022...Visiting Professor, University of Oxford, UK
    2021 - now......Board Member, Strategic Research Area Neuro (StratNeuro)
    2019 - now......Pro Futura Fellow, Swedish Collegium for Advanced Study (SCAS), Sweden
    2015 - 2023....Board Member, International Society for Interdisciplinary Placebo Studies (SIPS)

    Education
    Postdoctoral education
    2010 - 2013.....Harvard Medical School / Mass General Hospital, Boston, USA
    Doctoral education
    2005 - 2009...PhD Clinical Neuroscience, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden
    Basic education
    2000 - 2005...MSc Clinical Psychology, Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden

Research

  • To understand the cognitive mechanisms and brain pathways involved in the generation and regulation of pain in humans.

Teaching

  • Currently teaching

    Medical Program
    2021 - now....Cognitive Neuroscience, Basvetenskap 4, Modul 4, Karolinska Institutet

    PhD-course
    2022 - now....The Science of the Placebo Effect, Karolinska Institutet

Selected publications

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Grants

Employments

  • Professor, Department of Clinical Neuroscience, Karolinska Institutet, 2023-

Degrees and Education

  • Docent, Karolinska Institutet, 2019
  • Degree Of Doctor Of Philosophy, Department of Clinical Neuroscience, Karolinska Institutet, 2009

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