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.
Master degree
Master of Science in Engineering Physics with the thesis ŇSimulering av lasersvetsningÓ (Simulation of Laser Welding, in Swedish). TRITA-NA-E8657, Royal Institute
of Technology, 1986. Supervisor: Henrik Eriksson.
Visiting researcher at
Lotus Development, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA. January 1999-December 1999.
STINT Fellow at Williams College, Williamstown, MA, USA. August 2008-December 2008 through the STINT Excellence in Teaching program.
Current
Employment
Vice Dean of Education
at the School of Computing Science and Communication (CSC) at the Royal
Institute of Technology, Stockholm, January 2007-.
Chair
of the Department of Numerical Analysis and Computer Science (Nada) at
Stockholm University, January 2009-.
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 KTH:s Resource Centre for Netbased Education 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.
Reviewer for General Online Research 2009-, Journal of Human-Computer Interaction 2005-, Conference on Email and Anti-Spam 2004-2005, CHI 2004-2006, ECSCW 2001.
Other merits and awards
Paternity leaves 2002-2009, so far totalling an equivalent of 25 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.