Elisabeth Bucht for your friendly and supportive style. Bengt Saltin, thank you for introducing me to exercise physiology.
Thomas Gustafsson at the Clinical Phyisology Unit at Karolinska University Hospital (Huddinge) for being supportive and for thrilling scientific discussions and nice project collaborations. You are a “quality guy”, thanks for being there! Thank you also to Lennart Kaijser , Eva Jansson, Mona Esbjörnsson-Liljedahl and Barbara Norman for nice collaborations.
Jan Henriksson, Urban Ungerstedt and Michel Goiny at the Department of Physiology and Pharmacology for being people knowledgeable in microdialysis , willing to discuss methodological issues in depth.
Lars Hagenäs at the Pediatric Endocrinology Unit for thrilling scientific (and other!) discussions with new, sometimes provocative “angles” on things. Thank you for giving me the opportunities to give lectures about things that are only “touching” my main scientific area, making me stretch out and develop intellectually.
I want to thank Olle Söder and Martin Ritze´n for being open and dynamic, drawing a lot of nice people from all over the world to the lab. And all these nice people
themselves-my colleagues at the lab all through the years! You have all been around for talks, laughs and support: Mona-Lisa Strand, Aida Wahlgren, Cecilia Zetterström, Cecilia Pedersen, Emma Eriksson, Paula Fernandez, Vichit Suporsilchai,
Konstantin Svechnikov, Irina Svechnikov, Andrei Chagin, Eva Horemuzova, Ola Nilsson, Mi Hou, Kirsi Jahnukainen, Klas Ekström, Jenny Salemyr, Shahzad Ahkram, Elham Karimian, Britt Maseroni, Lena Sahlin, Theri Heino, Katja Sundström, Lin Ma, Carolina Bianchi, Therese, Nina Renlund, Dionisisos Chrysios, Giedre GGrigelioniene, Yvonne Löfgren, Susanne Hallberg. Thanks Lars S for attending the PhD seminars with enthusiasm and interesting questions.
Thanks to Farasat and Damreen Zaman for delicious Pakistani food at your home and Farasat for very interesting discussions at the lab. on culture, identity and life choices. Thank you Eugenia Colon for sharing your journey into the Swedish
“läkarliv” with me. Thanks to Sara Pihl for being warm, human and interesting to discuss science with. Thanks to Maria Ahlsen for support (computer and life realted matters!), discussions and good laughs!
Astrid Häggbladh – thank you for always having answers to administrative questions and for being structured and helpful when papers were not always in order. And Mikael Dahn, the computer emergency guy, always calm and doing your very best to help as fast as possible! That kept my adrenalin-levels down!
Thanks to my new enthousiastic and energetic and smart collaborators during the last few years at the Swedish School of Health Sciences: Mikael Mattson, Jonas Enqvist, Björn Ekblom and the most recent of them Örjan Ekblom.
Thanks to Maria Berner and Eva Örtqvist at the Diabetes Unit at Astrid Lindgren Children´s Hospital.
Thanks to all the inquisitive and enthusiastic students I have met all through the years.
Some of you have also contributed scientifically and/or practically to the present project: Elisabeth Kuldkepp and Henning Wallerstedt.
Thanks to all the subjects who participated in the studies!
My dear friends: Thanks to Karin Billing for having been there since 1971, “I vått (!) och torrt”, always in contact, for sharing laughs and sorrows. Jenny Hygins for believing in me and asking uncomfortable questions. Åsa Holgren for being you and so positive towards my research project. Gunilla v Perner for being a thoughtful and humoristic person in combination. Karin Aurelius for being direct, courageous and fun. Gi Broman for introducing me to the crazy world of exercise physiology research and for our deep friendship. Gunnar Edvardsson for all the new sources of joy you introduced in my life. Erica Fosse for being you! Hans Lindgren for nice “walks and talks”. Thanks to the dancers who made me leave “science” behind and relax-some of you also became friends outside the dance floor: Claes Schumann, Torbjörn Hygins, Göran Winther, Malin Hallberg, Thomas Allander, Micke Spetz, Göran Flank and John Änggård. Thanks to all other friends who make my life so joyful and interesting.
Thanks to Anna-Karin Wikström, physiotherapist and friend and Peter Försth, ortopedic surgeon, for helping me back from my disc herniation to a wonderful life without neurological pain.
Peder, Anniqa, Ella and Hugo: Thank you for being so generous and welcoming and for very good communication.
Thanks to my relatives Marianne and Stefan with families, “Moster Lotta” and Bengt-Olov and Katinka, Emmanuel and Nils (“open-door and always delicious food-policy”). Thanks to my neighbour Alice for your help and all nice chats.
Thanks to my beloved parents Ingrid and Ulf. You always believe in me and support my ideas and my values in life. You gave me a valuable attitude to learning: that it is joyful and fun and that anything can be learned if you really want it. Magnus, the best big brother I could ever wish for: supportive, creative, enthusiastic and sincere and thanks to Pernilla. Thanks to my wonderful sister Fredrika for being always there as my “kloka gumma” with warmth and tenderness and thanks to Göran and Melker.
Last but not really not least: Thank you Emmy for being the most lovely and creative angel girl in town. And Emil, thank you for every second I share with you. You taught me to be “here and now”. I love you, your tricky questions and your warm hugs.
TACK!