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Date and place of birth

October 13, 1961, Stockholm

Address

Bo Bergmans gata 14, SE-115 50 Stockholm, Sweden

Education

MSc in Electrical Engineering 1985
PhD in Optics 1990
both at Royal Institute of Technology (KTH), Stockholm

Professional career

Teaching assistant, Physics Dep., KTH, 1986-1990
Research Scientist at the Institute of Optical Research (IOF), Stockholm, 1990 – 1995, leading a research group working on semiconductor optics.
1995-98 Director of Research at IOF, managing research groups working in the areas of surface characterisation, optical information processing, perception and semiconductor optics.
During spring 1998, acting professor at Department of Physics II (Optics) at KTH.
1998-99 Senior Scientist at Department of Physics – Optics, KTH, leading research group in femtosecond laser spectroscopy of semiconductors.
1999-2000 Project Manager, Opto Technology, Ericsson Generic Technologies, leading projects on optical building practice and optical interconnects.
2000-2002 Senior Scientist at Proximion Fiber Optics, working on modelling of fibre Bragg gratings based devices.
2002-2003 Manager Optics R&D at Proximion Fiber Optics, responsible for group working on design and production development of fibre Bragg grating devices.
2003-2005 Chief Technical Officer at CernoluX AB, responsible for the company’s technical development strategy. Also actively working with detailed design issues, simulation and modelling. Part-owner. CernoluX AB developed component for fibre-optical communication.
2005-2006 Project Manager at Micronic Laser Systems AB, responsible for large R&D project to develop a new laser writer.
2007-2008 Director Program Management at Micronic Laser Systems AB, responsible for reaching company-wide goals when developing new laser writers. The objectives encompassed reaching the technical specification, as well as criteria on industrialization, production, serviceability, training and installation.
2009-2011 Project Manager at Micronic Mydata AB, responsible for large optics and laser R&D project for new patterning system. Senior Engineer Laser Technology.
2011- Product Specialist at COMSOL AB.

Miscellaneous

97-12-04: Associate Professor (docent) at Physics Department, KTH.

Publications

See bibliography.

Patents

3, for details see bibliography.

Societies

Swedish Optical Society, SOS
PhotonicSweden
European Optical Society, EOS
Optical Society of America, OSA
IEEE