Olav Rooijackers is a trained biologist, or more accurate animal physiologist from the Agricultural University in Wageningen (NL). He have a PhD in clinical nutrition from the University of Maastricht (NL). After that he did 2 postdoc fellowships; one at the Endocrine Research Unit at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota (USA) and one at the Department of Medicine at the University of Edinburgh (UK). In January 2000 he joined the currenet research group at Karolinska  Institutet and located at the Department of Anesthesiology and Intensive Care at Karolinska Unversity Hospital in Huddinge. He started here as a assistant professor and head of the analytical lab. Presently he is professor in experimental anesthesiology and intensive care and together with Professor Jan Wernerman run the ICU metabolism research group (see www.icu.metabolism.se).

Olav Rooijackers research group are involved in is to study the metabolic and nutritional problems of critically ill patients in endocrinology and diabetes disease conditions. We mainly perform smaller mechanistic physiological studies.