Ivanka Savic Berglund#
| Membership Number: | 6941 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | PHYSIOLOGY & NEUROSCIENCE |
| Elected: | 2024 |
| Main Country of Residence: | SWEDEN |
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| ORCID: | 0000-0003-4275-0689 |
Present and Previous Positions
- 2013 - present Full professor of Neurology, Karolinska Institutet
- 2016 Adjunct professor at the Dept of Neurology UCLA
- 2006 - 2013 Associate professor in Neurology, Karolinska Institute
- 2001 - 2006 Elite research leader, Karolinska Institutet
- 1999 - 2012 Associate Professor of Neurology, Karolinska Institutet
- 1997 Consultant Neurologist, Karolinska University Hospital, Stockholm, Sweden1979-1984 Fellow, Neurology, Huddinge University Hospital, Stockholm
- 1995 - 1996 Post Doc, Dept. of Neurology, Epilepsy Center, (Prof. Jerome Engel), UCLA, Los Angeles
- 1992 - 1994 Specialist, Neurology, South Hospital, Stockholm
- 1987 - 1991 Clinical Neurophysiology, Karolinska University Hospital, Stockholm
- 1984 - 1986 Specialist, Neurology, Huddinge University Hospital, Stockholm
Fields of Scholarship
- Studies of neurobiology behind gender incongruence and gender dysphoria
- Brain imaging studies of cerebral sex differences their underpinnings and implications
- Cerebral mapping of the human olfactory and pheromone system with PER and functional MRI
- Mechanisms and new therapeutic approaches to chronic stress in humans, occupational burnout in particular
- Human epilepsy and the underlying pathophysiology
Honours and Awards
- 1989 Young researcher prize in Clinical Neurophysiology
- 2000 Edit Follin’s prize in Neurology in Sweden
- 2004 - 2010 6 years position as Elite Research Leader at Karolinska Institute
- 2017 Selected as one of the most successful female scientists in Europe (including all scientific fields). Academia.edu, funded by president Angela Merkel, Germany.
