Erik A Richter, MD, DMSci

Erik A. Richter, MD, DMSci, is a fully licensed MD and Professor of Human Physiology and Exercise Physiology at the Department of Nutrition, Exercise and Sports, University of Copenhagen, Denmark. He has a strong focus on human experimental physiology related to molecular signalling and fuel metabolism during and after exercise. While working as a research fellow in the lab of Neil B. Ruderman at Boston University, his first major discovery was increased insulin sensitivity after exercise. He also works with molecular signaling in muscle related to metabolic regulation during and after exercise. Recently he has combined human invasive investigations with systems biology in collaborations with scientists in Australia leading to groundbreaking discoveries related to exercise and molecular signaling. His human studies are often supplemented with mechanistic research in genetically altered rodents. He has published 375 papers accruing >29,000 citations. His H-index is 98 (Web of Science) or 121 on Google Scholar.

He has received many scientific prizes, including the Novo Nordisk Prize and the Honor Award by the research group of Biochemistry of Exercise in 2012, and the Adolf Award and the Solomon Berson Award from the American Physiological Society in 2005 and 2018, respectively, and the Philip Randle Award from the Biochemical Society in UK in 2021.