Professors from previous years
Professors inaugurated from years past.
Professors 2023
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Thomas Strandberg - new professor 2023
Thomas Strandberg is professor of social work. His research currently includes studying the situation for children to parents with cognitive impairment. “Parents with these challenges are a vulnerable group who are often in need of support in their...
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Thomas Barow - new professor 2023
Thomas Barow is professor of education focusing on special education. His research looks at special education and education for persons with disabilities from both a historic and contemporary perspective. “Developments throughout history shows tendencies...
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Mats Landqvist - new professor 2023
Mats Landqvist is professor of rhetoric specialising in crisis communication. Today his research includes looking at crisis communication in an unpredictable, changeable and potentially dangerous world. “My doctoral thesis examined negotiations between...
Professors 2022
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Dimitri Beeckman - new professor 2022
Dimitri Beeckman is professor of nursing science and specialises in wounds. “The core of my research is patient perspective, interdisciplinarity and practical relevance,” he says.
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Marita Andersson Grönlund - new professor 2022
Marita Andersson Grönlund, professor of medicine with a specialisation in ophthalmology, conducts research primarily on the eyesight of premature infants linked to the risk of cardiovascular diseases later in life.
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András Büki - new professor 2022
András Büki is a professor of medical science and specialises in surgery. He researches mainly brain injuries and nerve damage.
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Gunnar Isacsson - new professor 2022
Gunnar Isacsson started working at the Government Offices after his bachelor’s degree in the early 1990s. “These were the years when Sweden was in a deep economic crisis, and that experience contributed to me starting research, he says.”
Professors 2021
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Matej Orešič - new professor 2021
Matej Orešič is professor of medicine, specialising in systems medicine. His research is focused on studying the causes of diseases before they cause symptoms for better treatment and prevention. His research has focused on type 1 diabetes, among other...
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Katja Fall - new professor 2021
Katja Fall is professor of clinical epidemiology. She researches risk factors for cancer and factors that affect patients affected by cancer. One premise is to link risk factors in adolescence with the risk of cancer later in life.
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Maria Jansson - new professor 2021
Maria Jansson is professor of gender studies and researches women’s conditions in society and how they are affected by politics and women’s own political actions. Her research shows that regulations impact everything from breastfeeding to gender equality...
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Peter Matthiessen - new professor 2021
Peter Matthiessen is adjunct professor of surgery and specialises in aortic surgery. He researches rectum cancer and how stoma affects surgical complications, intestinal function, and quality of life. His research also studies how keyhole surgery affects...
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Jan Brynhildsen - new professor 2021
Jan Brynhildsen , professor of obstetrics and gynaecology, researches contraception. “A fundamental equality issue, and extremely central to women’s opportunities in society.”
Professors 2020
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Niclas Strömberg - new professor 2020
Niclas Strömberg is professor of mechanical engineering and he has many years of research experience in computational mechanics and design optimisation. Currently, much of his research concerns how to improve design optimisation for additive...
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Mia von Euler - new professor 2020
Mia von Euler is professor of medical science with a specialisation in neurology. Her main interest is stroke research – and says that now is a very exciting time within her field.
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Miriam Mints - new professor 2020
Miriam Mints is adjunct professor in surgical science, with a specialisation in obstetrics and gynaecology. She is a specialist physician and a pioneer of keyhole (minimally invasive) surgery for women with heavy menstrual bleeding.
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Hugo Hesser - new professor 2020
Hugo Hesser is professor of psychology. He researches how to use and develop cognitive behavioural therapy for treating mental and physical ill-health.
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Jonas Halfvarson - new professor 2020
Jonas Halfvarson is professor of medical science with a specialisation in gastroenterology. He researches inflammatory bowel disease (IBD). The aim is to identify at an early stage, who may be developing the disease and how to treat these patients –...
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Helen Peterson - new professor 2020
Helen Peterson is professor of sociology. She has studied a wide range of aspects of our working lives – from both the employee’s and the employer’s perspective. Gender has been the common theme in her research.
Professors 2019
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Bo Lennernäs (1963-2021)
Bo Lennernäs is professor of medical science. He is an oncology specialist and a pioneer of brachytherapy – a type of treatment where the radiation sources are placed in the exact spot in the body where the cancer tumour is. His research is focused on...
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Marie Holmefur - new professor 2019
Marie Holmefur is professor of occupational therapy. Her research concerns daily activities and how we can create better conditions for persons with a disability to perform the activities they want, need or must in their everyday life.
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Henrik Jordahl - new professor 2019
Henrik Jordahl is professor of economics with a specialisation in public economics. He conducts research on the welfare sector, in particular the emergence and impact of privatisation.
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Lars-Olov Lundqvist - new professor 2019
Lars-Olov Lundqvist is adjunct professor of disability science. His research on disabilities emphasises health for persons with mental and physical disabilities in a life perspective.
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Elisabet Welin - new professor 2019
Elisabet Welin is professor of nursing science. Her goal is to improve the care of patients with rheumatic diseases – with improved caregiver-patient relationships and a care that is more adapted to the needs of the patient.
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Jonas Persson - new professor 2019
Jonas Persson is professor of psychology. His research concerns our memory – using technology that enables him to see what happens in our brains.
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Karin Blomberg - new professor 2019
Karin Blomberg is professor of nursing science and studies primarily how relation-centred care can be promoted and how dignity can be preserved for critically ill patients.
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Håkan Geijer - new professor 2019
Håkan Geijer is professor of medical science with a specialisation in radiology. He is a consultant at the Örebro University Hospital Department of Radiology and researches how we can use radiology optimally in healthcare.
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Patrik Lundell - new professor 2019
Patrik Lundell is professor of history. He has written about the history of printed newspapers – their emergence, competition and marketing. In recent years, he has begun researching right-wing extremist advocacy during the interwar years and World War...
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Liselotte Hermansson - new professor 2019
Liselotte Hermansson is professor of occupational therapy. She studies how prostheses affect life for people born without arms or hands, or for those who later in life need to undergo an amputation of the arm.
Professors 2018
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Mehul Bhatt - new professor 2018
Mehul Bhatt is professor of computer science. He researches how humans perceive their surroundings – knowledge that is used to develop artificial intelligence (AI) and better technology.
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Eewa Nånberg - new professor 2018
Eewa Nånberg is professor of biomedical science. She researches how exposure to chemicals can affect our immune and nervous systems.
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Magnus Johansson - new professor 2018
Magnus Johansson is professor of biomedicine. He researches the tick-borne encephalitis virus (TBEV) and studies how the underlying mechanisms affect the progression of the TBE viral infectious disease. The aim is to find ways of preventing and treating...
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Marie Öhman - new professor 2018
Marie Öhman is professor of sport science. She researches how the public debate influences physical education teachers concerning the risks of physical contact between adults and children.
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Inger M Jonsson - new professor 2018
Inger M Jonsson is professor of culinary arts and meal science. Her research reflects an interest in meals from a societal perspective, where food represents an identity, a purpose, a symbol and form of communication.
Professors 2017
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Ola Nilsson - new professor 2017
Ola Nilsson is a paediatrician, paediatric endocrinologist and professor of medical science. He researches the fundamental causes of growth disorders and skeletal diseases. Using clinical, genetic and experimental studies, his research group...
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Pär Österholm - new professor 2017
Pär Österholm is professor of macroeconomics with a specialisation in financial economics. His research focuses mainly on the interest rate markets. He also studies how the financial crisis of 2008 has changed the very foundation of the economy.
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Elina Mäki-Torkko - new professor 2017
Elina Mäki-Torkko is professor of audiology. She is investigating the prevalence and causes of hearing loss. Her research also concerns cochlear implants, CI.
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Magnus Löfstrand - new professor 2017
Magnus Löfstrand is professor of mechanical engineering. His research mainly concerns how to design methods to help industry in producing as much as possible with a minimum of resources. This approach creates many interesting mechanical engineering...
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Hildegunn Kyvik Nordås - new professor 2017
Hildegunn Kyvik Nordås is adjunct professor of economics. Since 2005, she is associated with the OECD, Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development. She researches primarily the trade of services.
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Dirk Repsilber - new professor 2017
Dirk Repsilber is professor of medical science with a specialisation in functional bioinformatics. His research targets identifying individual molecular patterns in patients, which either explain their specific disorder – or contribute to tailoring...
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Nader Asnafi - new professor 2017
Nader Asnafi is professor of mechanical engineering, with extensive industry experience in addition to his career within academia. He has developed an array of new materials and products, most recently using 3D printing.
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Tuulia Hyötyläinen - new professor 2017
Tuulia Hyötyläinen is professor of chemistry. She researches metabolomics and how chemical exposure affects our health. Her specialisation is diabetes, fatty liver and head trauma.
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Mats Deutschmann - new professor 2017
Mats Deutschmann is professor of English. His research focuses mainly on language, power and identity, topics coloured by his upbringing in different cultural and linguistic contexts. He is currently working on two projects that examine language and...
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Lisa Kurland - new professor 2017
Lisa Kurland is professor of emergency medicine. Her thesis is on how to predict the effects of blood pressure treatment based on a patient’s genetic information.
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Katja Boersma - new professor 2017
Katja Boersma is professor of psychology. She mainly researches how people experience and manage somatic symptoms, such as pain.
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Johannes Westberg - new professor 2017
Johannes Westberg is professor of education. He conducts research content of education and its social, economic and cultural context from a historical perspective. He has been particularly interested in providing new answers to questions about the...
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Hans Englund - new professor 2017
Hans Englund professor of business administration. He researches organisational control systems and is part of CEROC’s research environment, Centre for Empirical Research on Organisational Control.
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Frans Prenkert - new professor 2017
Frans Prenkert is professor of business administration. He researches industrial business networks and the role these networks play in our modern economies.
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Anders Björkvall - new professor 2017
Anders Björkvall is professor of the Swedish language. He researches how language works together with other means of communication, such as images. This research focuses on so-called multimodal texts, language combined with images, colours, and...
Professors 2016
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Ulrik Volgsten - new professor 2016
Ulrik Volgsten is Professor of Musicology. His research focuses on musical communication in different media. His research has encompassed cognitive science and music psychology, and has had relevance beyond the musicological research.
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Åsa Källström Cater - new professor 2016
Åsa Källström Cater is Professor of Social Work. Her research focuses on how children perceive and are affected by family violence, where one part is concerned with discovering the factors that can promote power of resistance in vulnerable children.
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Mats Eriksson - new professor 2016
Mats Eriksson is Professor of Nursing Science. His research is concerned primarily with pain in new-born babies, but also in older children.
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Peter Berglez - new professor 2016
Peter Berglez is Professor of Media and Communication Studies. His research includes media from a global perspective with a focus on crises. Social media as a tool for the social elites, has become a subject of recent study.
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Karin Hedström - new professor 2016
Karin Hedström is Professor of Informatics. Her research is focused on the role of values in the design of IT systems. Her commitment to challenging and changing prevailing views is a driving force.
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Thomas Denk - new professor 2016
Thomas Denk is Professor of Political Science. His research is focused on how states are formed and how they are interdependent. He also examines how individuals form an opinion about politics.
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Kerstin Nilsson - new professor 2016
Kerstin Nilsson is Professor of Surgery. Her research examines hormonal issues with a focus on vaginal infections, such as the risk factors of injuries occurring during childbirth. Her work also concerns reducing overweight and obesity in pregnant women.
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Sören Andersson - new professor 2016
Sören Andersson is Professor of Medicine. A significant portion of his professional career has been focused on laboratory diagnosis, both in clinical procedures and in research and development.
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Johan Jendle - new professor 2016
Johan Jendle is Professor of Medical Science and Head at the Endocrine and Diabetes Centre at Karlstad Hospital. His research is mainly focused on type 1 diabetes and physical activity. He is also an international diving physician.
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Annica Kihlgren - new professor 2016
Annica Kihlgren is Professor of Nursing Science. Her time as a nurse in emergency treatment and municipal care gave her valuable insight into the vulnerability of many older people. Today, her research focuses on improving health care.
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Henrik Larsson - new professor 2016
Henrik Larsson is Professor of Medical Science and researches on the fundamental causes of attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD). With the help of twin studies, he has shown that low birth weight increases the risk for ADHD.
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Amy Loutfi - new professor 2016
Amy Loutfi is Professor of Information Technology. She conducts research in intelligent sensor systems and how they function in various environments and in their interaction with humans.
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Hans Hjelmqvist - new professor 2016
Hans Hjelmqvist is Professor of Medical Science. Having previously researched in fundamental physiology, his research today is nearly entirely concerned with intensive care patients. In addition, he is conducting research to develop teaching methods.
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Ann Quennerstedt - new professor 2016
Ann Quennerstedt is Professor of Education. The main area of her research is the role of early childhood education and secondary school for children’s human rights. There are almost no studies done on how this teaching is carried out.
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Anna-Karin Andershed - new professor 2016
Anna-Karin Andershed is Professor of Psychology and researches mainly the risk and protective factors of the adverse psychosocial development in children and adolescents. Of uttermost importance to her is the practical application of research.
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Afrouz Behboudi - new professor 2016
Afrouz Behboudi is Professor of Biomedicine and a cancer researcher. Two identified genes which slow cell growth are currently the focus of her research, and a feasible objective in developing new cancer treatments.
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Henrik Andershed - new professor 2016
Henrik Andershed became Professor of Psychology in 2011, and four years later also in criminology. Much of his research focuses on identifying different youth groups with criminal behaviour to aid in customising treatment.
