Lars Arendt-Nielsen (born 5 June 1958 in Langeskov, Denmark) is a professor at Aalborg University [1] specialising in translational pain research and bio-markers.

Wall diligently pointed out to his students that research in pain was lacking, and Lars Arendt-Nielsen responded to this throughout his academic career.

[7] Lars Arendt-Nielsen likewise founded a PhD programme in 1997 (The Doctoral School In Medicine, Biomedical Science and Technology) with more than 70 enrolled students.

[8] Personally, he has supervised more than 50 PhD students [5] and has published more than 1000 peer reviewed journal papers (sum of times cited 34,420, average citations per item 31.05, H-index 85, Web of Science).

[5] Lars Arendt-Nielsen has established an extensive global network with universities, hospitals and industries; he has worked in England, Sweden, Japan and Italy and has given more than 350 keynote lectures at international conferences and meetings.