Description
Daniel Theisen holds a PhD in Rehabilitation Sciences from the Université catholique de Louvain (UCL), Louvain-la-Neuve (Belgium) where he took on a position of assistant professor as of 2000. In 2007 he joined the Luxembourg Institute of Health (LIH) to develop new research activities into sports medicine and rehabilitation science. In 2009 he incepted the Sports Medicine Research Laboratory (LIH) which he directed until 2018, developing expertise in epidemiology and biomechanics of sports injury prevention. Since 2019 he has been the director of ALAN – Maladies Rares Luxembourg, a non-profit organisation for patients living with a rare disease. Dr Theisen has had several academic appointments in Luxembourg, Belgium, Switzerland and Chile, providing teaching for graduate and postgraduate students in different areas related to exercise science. He has a record of over 100 scientific contributions as peer-reviewed articles and book chapters.
