Born: January 29, 1962
Civil status: Married
with three children born 2002, 2004, and 2006.
Ph. D. in Computer
Science with a speciality in Human-Computer Interaction with the thesis
"Electronic Mail in a Working Context" at the Royal Institute of
Technology, December 1998 and the Research School of Human-Machine Interaction,
March 1999. Main supervisor: Kerstin Severinson-Eklundh. Co-supervisors: Ann
Lantz and Viggo Kann.
Licentiate
degree
Licentiate degree in Computer Science with the thesis ŇElectronic mail
from a user perspective: Problems and remediesÓ. TRITA-NA-9510, Royal Institute
of Technology, 1995. Main supervisor: Yngve Sundblad.
Co-supervisor: Kerstin Severinson-Eklundh.
Visiting researcher at
Lotus Development, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA. January 1999-December 1999.
Current Employment
Vice dean of Education
at the School of Computing Science and Communication (CSC) at the Royal
Institute of Technology, Stockholm, January 2007-.
Associate professor at CSC, November 2006 -.
Previous Employment
Director of Studies at CSC, August 2006-December
2006.
Assistant professor (senior lecturer) at the
Department of Numerical Analysis and Computing Science/ CSC, July 2000 – October
2006.
Researcher at the Department of Medical
Epidemiology and Biostatistics at Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, September
2000 – December 2003 (40%).
Director of Studies at Nada, September
2002-December 2002.
Graduate student at Interaction and Presentation
Laboratory, Royal Institute of Technology, 1993 -1998.
Teacher in Computer Science, Numerical Analysis,
and Physics, Royal Institute of Technology, since 1984, (1984-1985, 1989-2003
part time).
Systems engineer, Siemens-Elema, Solna, Sweden
1989-1992.
Database consultant, CATS AB, Stockholm, Sweden
1989.
Part time jobs before 1986: army, home-helper,
power line maintenance, porter, undertaker, and chef.
1980-81: Arctic
Infantry at VŠsterbottens regemente, I20, UmeŚ. Rank of Second Lieutenant
Commission of trust
Board of Resource Centre for Netbased
Education since 2007.
Honorary Advisor of Hong Kong Applied Language & Communication
Association 2005-
Member of graduating committee for
Per-Anders Jande, Dec 2006.
Opponent of Eva Sjšqvist (Licentiate thesis
June 2005).
Assistant supervisor for Bjšrn EiderbŠck (Ph.D.
2001), Cristian Bogdan (Ph.D. 2003), and Henrry Rodriguez (Ph.D. 2003).
Mentor in Technologia for female graduate
students at KTH since 2004.
NadaŐs group for undergraduate education 2000-
2005.
Board of Royal Institute of Technology
1997-1998.
Vice principal's group for Graduate student
education, Royal Institute of Technology 1996-1998.
Sports associations: Board of Bromma Beach
YMCA/YWCA, 4 years; President of KTH IF volleyball, 2 years; Secretary of KTH
IF, Stockholm, 2 years; President of IKSU volleyball UmeŚ, 1 year; Board of
IKSU volleyball, UmeŚ, 1 year; Vice President of Bjšrklšven Supporter 2 years,
President of …stra Gymnasiets Skol IF, UmeŚ, 2 years.
Other merits and awards
STINT Excellence in Teaching 2008. STINT
Fellow at Williams College, MA, USA.
Paternity leaves 2002-2008, so far totalling equivalent of 23
full-time months.
Supervisor for Master Thesis awarded with
"Reference of Honour in the Product Innovation Engineering program
engineering creativity challenge" KTH 2007.
Supervisor for "Master thesis project of
the year at a small company" KTH 1996.
Awarded KTH's price for prominent achievements
in undergraduate education 1989.
Founded "BŠlter Ingenious Engineering"
in 1989.
Elected "Teacher of the Year" by the
students at the School of Surveying, KTH 1987.
Actor in "Fysikalen" eleven times and
assistant director once with more than 100 performances in Stockholm, VŠsterŚs,
Kristinehamn, Linkšping, Uppsala in Sweden and Helsinki in Finland.
Scholarships: FAS 2005, European Science
Foundation 2005, Knut och Alice Wallenberg 2004, TBS 2003, Swedish Institute
1998, Ericsson 1997, LŠromedelfšrfattarnas fšrbund 1996, Ericsson 1995,
Ericsson 1994, LŠromedelfšrfattarnas fšrbund 1990.