Education and degrees
Dec 2008 Ph. D. Bioscience, Dept. of Chemistry and Bioscience, Chalmers University of Technology, Gothenburg, Sweden. Thesis title: Visualizing structural dynamics in solution: from small molecules to membrane proteins
Apr 2003 M. Sc. Chemistry, Gothenburg University, Gothenburg, Sweden
External diploma work at University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia
Current and previous positions
March 2018- Associate Professor, Dept. of Chemistry, Umeå University
Oct 2013-Dec 2017 Researcher, Computational Biophysics, Science for Life Laboratory, Dept. of Theoretical Physics, KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden
Aug 2012-Sep 2013 Researcher, Dept. of Biochemistry and Biophysics, Stockholm University, Sweden
Aug 2009-July 2012 Postdoctoral researcher, Dept. of Physiology and Biophysics, University of California, Irvine, USA
Jan 2009-July 2009 Postdoctoral researcher, Centre of Molecular Movies, Niels Bohr Institute, University of Copenhagen, Denmark
Awards
2010 U.S. National Science Foundation International Materials Institute Award, USA
Docentship
2016 Docentship at KTH Royal Institute of Technology in Biological Physics
Supervising Post-doctoral students
2018- Ram Mahato, post-doctoral student, Umeå University
Supervising Doctoral students
2019- Principal supervisor: Fredrik Orädd, doctoral student, Umeå University
2017- Assistant supervisor: Marie Lycksell, doctoral student, KTH Royal Institute of Technology
2015- Principal supervisor: Harsha Ravishankar, doctoral student, Umeå University
2013-2016 Assisting supervision of doctoral student Ozge Yoluk, KTH Royal Institute of Technology
2013-2016 Assisting supervision of doctoral student Samira Yazdi, Max Planck Institute, Magdeburg
Supervising Master students
2018 Vera Håkansson, Master thesis, KTH Royal Institute of Technology
2018 Max Larsson Lagerås, Master thesis, KTH Royal Institute of Technology
2017 Lutimba Stuart, Master thesis, Skövde University
2016 Isabelle Neren, Master thesis, Uppsala University
2015 Olle Hedkvist, Master thesis, KTH Royal Institute of Technology
2015 Harsha Ravishankar, Master thesis, Uppsala University
2014 Panagiota Kolitsida, scholarship-supported Pre-PhD program in Biochemistry, Biophysics or Bioinformatics, Stockholm University
2014 Farhad Kimanos, Master thesis, KTH Royal Institute of Technology
2013 Farhad Kimanos, summer internship sponsored by the pharmaceutical company, Novo Nordisk A/S, Copenhagen.
Teaching experience
2018- Biophysical Chemistry: Spectroscopy, 5KE038 (7.5 ECTS credits) at Umeå University
2018- Biophysical Chemistry: Thermodynamics, 5KE034 (7.5 ECTS credits) at Umeå University
2017-2018 Biophysics, SI2720 (7.5 ECTS credits) at the Royal Institute of Technology (KTH)
2014-2016 Protein Physics, SI2700 (7.5 ECTS credits) at the Royal Institute of Technology (KTH)
National and international assignments of importance
2017 Co-investigator National Graduate School in Neutron Scattering (GSn)
2015 Ph. D. thesis evaluation committee, Alexander Björling, Gothenburg University
2013- Reviewer of research proposals at NIST Center for Neutron Research (NCNR), USA
2013-2014 Reviewer of student performance at the Pre-PhD program in Biochemistry, Biophysics or Bioinformatics, Stockholm University
2013 Organized a joint symposium between University of Virginia / Stockholm University at Stockholm University by financial support from The Swedish Foundation for International Cooperation in Research and Higher Education (STINT).
Funding (as Principal Investigator)
In total 9 external (both national and EU) grants
2018-2020 Carl Tryggers Stiftelse
2017-2020 VR Swedish Research Council starting grant
2016-2018 Stiftelsen Olle Engkvist Byggmästare
2016-2018 Åke Wibergs Stiftelse
2014-2018 Marie Curie Career Integration Grant
2017-2018 Magnus Bergvalls Stiftelse
2014-2016 Åke Wibergs Stiftelse
2015-2016 Magnus Bergvalls Stiftelse
2013-2015 Åke Wibergs Stiftelse
2013-2014 Magnus Bergvalls Stiftelse
Industrial collaboration
2012-2017 Collaboration with the pharmaceutical company Novo Nordisk A/S
