Thomas Laursen PhD

Thomas Munk Laursen is working as a professor at The National Centre for Register-Based Research, Aarhus University, Denmark. He has a Master’s degree in statistics (1997) and a PhD in medicine (psychiatric epidemiology, 2006).

Thomas's main area of research is within psychiatric epidemiology, including the analysis of risk factors for psychiatric disorders and subsequent outcomes. He has extensive experience with using a whole range of Danish population registries as data sources, and he has been the principal investigator on a range of projects as well as being a consultant on other projects. He has been the first author of 20+ peer-reviewed papers and has co-authored more than 150 papers, all of which have been published in high-ranking peer-reviewed journals.

Thomas has collaborated with a range of Danish and foreign researchers and has over the years established a wide network within the field of register-based research. He is an ad hoc peer-reviewer in several high-impact journals (e.g. NEJM, JAMA, and Lancet). He has been on a referee panel for the Research Council of Norway for the last three years.