1. Highlights

2011-2021: Continuous project grant support from VR NT-9

2016, 2019: Chairman of VR study section NT-9

2011    The Hugo Theorell Award in biophysics

Average citations per publication: 55

Main supervisor of two PhD students that have been awarded their degrees (2010 and 2017)

Course leader 15HP course 2005-2016

2. Undergraduate training

1996. Master of science in chemical engineering towards biochemistry. Royal Institute of Technology.

3. PhD exam

2001.  Department of Biotechnology, Royal Institute of Technology Stockholm.

Discipline: Structural biology

Thesis title: “Structure-function relationships of the human Runx1 transcription factor”

Main supervisor: Professor Torleif Härd

4. Postdoctoral studies

2001-10-01 through 2004-06-01. Funded by a postdoctoral fellowship granted by the Swedish Research Council.

Location and main supervisor: Brandeis University, Boston USA, Department of biochemistry in the laboratory of Professor Dorothee Kern

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5. Docent

Appointed docent in “Biological Chemistry” at the department of Chemistry, Umeå University December 2010.

6. Present employment

Type of employment: Professor, Department of Chemistry, Umeå University

Start date: 2012-05-01

Research time extent: 75 %,

Teaching and other departmental duties: 25 %.

7. Previous employments

2010-2012, Guest teacher (“gästlektor”). Chemistry department, Umeå University

2005-2010, Assistant professor (“Forskarassistent)”, funded by VR-NT. Chemistry department, Umeå University

2004-2005. Researcher, funded by my postdoc fellowship from VR-NT. Chemistry department, Umeå University

8. Grants

2018-2021                   VR-NT. Project grant 800 kkr/year

2014-2017                   VR-NT. Project grant 800 kkr/year

2011-2013                   VR-NT. Project grant 700 kkr/year

2017                            Carl Tryggers Stiftelse. Postdoc Fellowship. 552 kkr

2011                            Co-applicant NMR instrumentation, Kempe stiftelserna 12 Mkr

2012-2013                   Kempestiftelserna. Postdoc Fellowship. 480 kkr

2009                            “Young researcher award”, Umeå University, 2Mkr

2009                            Kempestiftelserna. Postdoc Fellowship. 400 kkr

2009                            Kempestiftelserna. Instrumentation grant. 490 kkr

2004-2008                   VR-NT. Forskarassistent position. 743 kkr/year

2004-2008                   VR-NT. Project Grant. 200 kkr/year

2008                            Kempestiftelserna. Postdoc Fellowship. 400 kkr

2008                            KVA. Project grant. 55 kkr

2007                            Strategic grant form our faculty. 600 kkr

2005                            Startup grant from dept. of chemistry. 275 kkr

2001-2004                   VR-NT. Postdoc fellowship grant to Magnus Wolf-Watz

9. Teaching

2012                Course Leader: “1.5 HP, Cutting Edge Biophysics”

2011                Lecturer: “15 HP, NMR in structural biology”

2010                Lecturer: “KBC, graduate course at KBC, NMR module II)”

2005-2016       Course leader: “15 HP, Protein Structure and Function”

2005-2010       Lecturer: ”15 HP, Protein Purification”

2009                Lecturer: ”1.5 HP graduate course, “Material, Catalytic or not”, Kristinestad.

2005-2008       Lecturer: ”15, HP, Structural Biology”

2004                Lecturer: ”1.5 HP graduate course, Protein Dynamics”, Göteborgs Universitet.

10. Supervision of exam workers

30 HP projects

2012    Helge Magnussen

2012    Praneeth Reddy Devulapally

2010    Ho Ngoc Hoang Oanh

2007    Louise Rundqvist

2007    Fredrik Björklund

2005    Marcus Wallgren

2004    Lise-Lott Österlund

15 HP projects

2018     Matheus Ferreria Silva

11. PhD supervision

Ho Ngoc Hoang Oanh, main supervisor, PhD degree awarded 2017

Jörgen Ådén, main supervisor, PhD degree awarded 2010

Yaozong Li, assistant supervisor, PhD degree awarded June 2017

Laxmi Mishra, assistant supervisor, accepted for PhD studies 2016

Barbara Addario, assistant supervisor, PhD degree awarded 2011    

Marcus Wallgren, assistant supervisor, PhD degree awarded 2012

Alexander Christiansen, assistant supervisor, PhD degree awarded 2013

Martin Lidman, assistant supervisor, PhD degree awarded 2015

12. Supervision of postdoctoral researchers

2012-2015       Michael Kovermann (supported by a fellowship from Deutsche Forschungs Gemainschaft), now groupleader at University of Konstanz

2012-2015       Arun Gupta

2012-               Per Rogne

2008-2012       Christoph Weise

2008-2010       Ulrika Olsson

13. Faculty opponent

2018  Petar Kovachev, Department of Cell and Molecular Biology, Uppsala university

14. Member of PhD defense committees

2017    Sylvia Eriksson, Department of biochemistry and biophysics, Stockholm University

2017    Lotta Berg, Department of chemistry, Umeå University

2016    Lotta von Sydow, Department of chemistry, Umeå University

2008    Linda Hedberg, Department of biochemistry and biophysics, Stockholm University

2008    Ulrika Brath, Department of biophysical chemistry, Lund University

2010    Cecilia Andresen,Department o f Molecular Biotechnology , Linköping University

15. Awards and assignments

1.  Awards

2011    The Hugo Theorell Award in biophysics

2009    Young Researcher Award, 2 million SKR to selected young faculty        
            Umeå University

2008    Kungliga Skytteanska samfundets pris     
To a promising young scientist at the Faculty of Science and Technology  
Umeå University

2. Keynote speaker

2016    2nd edition of the Protein Engineering Canada (PEC) Conference, Ottawa, Canada, Invited Keynote speaker

3. Talks given at international meetings

2018   “Prague Protein Spring”, Prague, Invited speaker
   

2017   The Biopysical Society 61:st Annual Meeting, San Francisco USA
           Speaker and session chair

2014    Physics of Biomolecular Folding and Assembly; Theory meets Experiment, Bad Honnef, Germany, Invited speaker

2013    The 18th Triennial Conference for the International Society of Magnetic Resonance (ISMAR), Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, speaker

2011    Joint Meeting of the Swedish and German Biophysical Societies, Hünfeld, Germany

Invited speaker

2010    The Biopysical Society 54th Annual Meeting, San Francisco USA
Speaker and session chair

2008    The Joint Biophysical Society 52nd annual meeting, 16th IUPAB International Biophysics Congress, Long Beach California, speaker

2007    The 16th Triennial Conference for the International Society of Magnetic Resonance (ISMAR), Kenting Taiwan, speaker

4. Personal invitation to universities to give talks

2017                University of Texas Arlington, USA

2016                The Scripps Research Institute

2016                Chalmers

2014                Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg

2012                Institute for Research in Biomedicine, Barcelona

2010                Linköpings University

2008                Lunds University

2008                Stockholm University

5. Other scientific assignments

2018                Chairman of the scientific committee, Swedish NMR meeting in Gothenburg

2013                Co-organizer for the 17:th annual Sbnet meeting Tällberg, Sweden.

2012                Main organizer of the meeting: “Cutting Edge Biophysics”, Tällberg, Sweden.

2011                Chairman at the 15th annual meeting of the Swedish Structural Biology network

2005-2015 Member in the scientific council of the Swedish NMR center to review applications for NMR time. The other members are Mikael Akke at biophysical chemistry in Lund and Göran Hilmersson, organic chemistry, University of Gothenburg.

2002-2004       Chairman for distribution of NMR time at Brandeis University.                  

5. VR panel assignments

2019    Chairman of the VR NT-9 Review panel

2018    Review panel member  NT-9 VR

2016    Chairman of the VR NT-9 Review panel

2015    Review panel member  NT-9 VR

2014    Review panel member  NT-9 VR

2012    Review panel member  D1, VR

6. Tenure promotion and other reviews

2019    Review of promotion of Dr. Alexi Amunts application for tenure and for promotion from assistant professor to associate professor. Stockholm University

2018    Expert review of a ERC consolidator grant application

2018    Review of promotion of Dr. Fredrik Ekström promotion to the position as chief scientist at the Swedish research Defense Agency (FOI).

2015    Review of an application for academic Promotion to Associate Professor with tenure at the Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Genetics at the University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus

2014    Review of an application for academic Promotion to Associate Professor with tenure in the Investigator – Educator pathway of the Faculty of .Medicine, University of Pittsburgh

2008    Review grant proposal for the Council for Chemical Sciences of the Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research

 7. Review work: Biochemistry, Nature, JBC, Biophysical Journal, Theoretical Biology and Medical Modelling, Green Chemistry, Journal of Molecular Biology, Quarterly reviews of biophysics, Chemistry & biology, Protein Science, Biotechnology Progress, The Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters, Scientific Reports, Chemical Science, Frontiers in Molecular Biosciences, Nature Communications, Journal of Biomolecular NMR, PNAS, Structural Dynamics