Erik Berg

Professor at Department of Chemistry - Ångström Laboratory; Structural Chemistry

E-mail:: erik.j.berg@uu.se
Visiting address:: Lägerhyddsvägen 1
Postal address:: Box 538
751 21 Uppsala

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Biography

I obtained BSc/MSc degrees in Engineering Physics from KTH Royal Institute of Technology (2007) and an MSc in Physics from the Technical University of Darmstadt (2007). I received my PhD in Nanotechnology and Functional Materials from Uppsala University (2012) under the supervision of Prof. Maria Strömme.

From 2012 to 2018 I was at the Electrochemistry Laboratory of the Paul Scherrer Institute (PSI), Switzerland — first as a BASF-funded postdoctoral researcher with Prof. Petr Novák, then as project leader (2015), and from 2016 as group leader of the Phase Boundaries Group (tenured in 2017). I returned to Uppsala University as Assistant Professor (2018), awarded Docent in Materials Chemistry (March 2021), and recruited as Professor in Chemistry in an open call (December 2021).

I have received the following grants in competition (selected):

2026-2029 Swedish Research Council - Röntgen-Ångström Project Grant
2026–2028 Swedish Energy Agency - Sustainable Battery Value Chain
2025–2028 Swedish Energy Agency - Sustainable Battery Value Chain
2024–2028 Swedish Energy Agency - FFI Project (co-PI with Volvo Cars)
2023 WASP-WISE NEST Seed project, Knut and Alice Wallenberg Foundation (co-PI)
2022 AI4Research Sabbatical at UU
2021–2025 Swedish Energy Agency FFI Project (co-PI with Northvolt and Scania)
2020–2025 Future Research Leaders grant (FFL-8), Foundation for Strategic Research
2020 Swedish Electromobility Centre Theme 3 PhD project grant
2019–2024 Wallenberg Academy Fellow, Knut & Alice Wallenbergs Stiftelse
2018-2022 Swedish Research Starting Grant
2018 Swedish Energy Agency Batterifonden (co-PI)
2016 Interdepartmental PhD Student Funding Grant, Paul Scherrer Institute (co-PI)
2015 SNF Ambizione Energy Fellowship, Swiss National Science Foundation

I was/am associated with the following teaching activities at UU: