2021- Emeritus professor 2016-19 Chairman of the Danish Council on Ethics 2013-19 Chairman of paediatrics, University of Copenhagen 2009 - 2012 Deputy head gyn/obs/paed, University of Copenhagen. 2001 - 2012 Head of Department, Neonatology, Rigshospitalet 1998 – 2021 Professor of Paediatrics, University of Copenhagen 1991 – Consultant neonatologist, Rigshospitalet Heading research in neonatal brain perfusion, oxygenation, brain injury, and neurodevelopmental deficits and perinatal growth. Coordinating investigator in the SafeBoosC project. Clinical coordinator of the NEOMUNE project. Steering committee member in four European research and educational projects. President for the European Society of Paediatric research and for the International Pediatric Research Foundation. Chairman of a regional research ethics committee. Knight of the order of Dannebrog. 2022 prize of Eur Soc Paediatr Res. Over 30 phd-students. Over 400 publications on PubMed. Over 10.000 citations.

Professor Boardman aims to develop and evaluate neuroprotective strategies for babies at risk of brain injury and poor neurodevelopmental outcomes, focusing on preterm birth. He researches the role of neonatal quantitative MR imaging to investigate causal pathways to brain injury, the factors that confer risk or resilience to injury, and the relationship between neonatal MRI and outcomes in childhood. He is the scientific director of the Jennifer Brown Research Laboratory at the University of Edinburgh/MRC Centre for Reproductive Health.

Liesbeth Thewissen (°1978) graduated as a specialist in Pediatrics in 2008 at KU Leuven, Belgium. After a fellowship in neonatology in Leuven, Belgium and Utrecht, the Netherlands, she was appointed as a staff member in the NICU at the University Hospitals Leuven, Belgium, in 2011. In 2019, she obtained a PhD on the value of near-infrared spectroscopy to change treatment decisions in the NICU. With a research interest in neonatal neurology and haemodynamics, she is interested to understand the role of pathology and drugs on the vulnerable neonatal circulation. She is NLS instructor and facilitates simulation training and debriefing. She is a clinical lecturer at KU Leuven and UCLL, Leuven, Belgium.