About Me

Originally Norwegian, Kristian A. Haanes took his BSc at the University of Bergen, Norway, with one year as an exchange student at Glasgow University, UK. Directly after his BSc in 2007, he moved to Copenhagen, Denmark, where the MSc in biochemistry was completed. Kristian started his PhD in 2009 in the group of Prof. Ivana Novak at Copenhagen University, working with purinergic signaling (extracellular signaling with nucleotides) with the focus on the pancreas.

After defending the PhD early in 2013, Kristian as a Post Doc in Prof. Lars Edvinsson’s group in Glostrup, Denmark. During the years at Glostrup research institute, a part of Copenhagen University hospital, he explored vascular physiology using myography, again with particular focus on purinergic signaling.

Working with Prof. Edvinsson, he got inspired by Edvinsson’s work on migraine. With the focus on purinergic signaling Kristian created a fellowship proposal in collaboration with Dr. Maassen van den Brink at Erasmus MC, named PUREMEDY, PUrinergic Receptor Exploration in Migraine – Eliminating the Disadvantages of Yesterday’s drugs, with the acronym pointing to a pure remedy, without vascular side effects.

Currently Kristian holds a Senior Researcher position Glostrup with focus on sensory biology and the basic mechanisms involved.