Kristian Petersen is an early career researcher (age: 36) and has been active within the research on mechanistic pain profiles in osteoarthritis over the last 10 years. Dr. Petersen has conducted studies on the association between pre-treatment mechanistic pain profiles and pain-relieving responses to total join replacement surgery, 3-weeks of NSAIDs, and 8-weeks of exercise therapy. In addition, Dr. Petersen has studied factors associated with the modulation of mechanistic pain profiles and demonstrated that these can be sensitized by e.g. sleep deprivation.  

Dr. Petersen has chaired several workshops at the Congresses of the European Pain Federation EFIC (2017, 2019) and the IASP World Congresses on Pain (2020/2021 and 2022).