Klas Hjort

Professor at Department of Materials Science and Engineering; Division of Microsystems Technology

Telephone:: +46 18 471 31 41
Mobile phone:: +46 70 425 05 97
E-mail:: klas.hjort@angstrom.uu.se
Visiting address:: Ångströmlaboratoriet, Regementsvägen 10
Postal address:: Box 35
751 03 UPPSALA

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Prof. Klas Hjort is Head of the MST Program

Dean of Engineer

Hjort is experienced in advanced microengineering. Recently, his focus has been heterogeneous microsystems on stainless steel, flexible foils and elastic substrates; for biomedicine and wireless sensor and actuator nodes. He is co-ordinator of the Horizon Europe project PERSIMMON on personalized and sustainable smart patches, and he leads a larger national project, where hi group builds textile-based wearable robots for haptics

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Klas Hjort is Professor in Materials Science, Head of the Microsystems Technology (MST) program, and Dean of Engineering at Uppsala University.

Hjort is experienced in advanced microengineering. Previously, his focus was telecom applications, using optical and radio-frequency MEMS. Recently, he has focused on heterogeneous microsystems on glass, ceramics, stainless steel, flexible foils and elastomers; for biomedicine and wireless sensor and actuator nodes.. Providing microsystems to his partners, he has been leading national and European projects on wireless sensor and actuator networks, using his digital rigid-stretch printed circuit board technology.

Today, he is co-ordinating the Horizon Europe project PERSIMMON, which forward state-of-the-art in smart patch technology, to allow it to become more personalized and sustainable with not too high a premium. In addition, he is PI for the SSF project Touch, where novel haptics with backscatter communication, energy harvesting and fluid mechanics enable a natural feeling of touch, using interaction design based on soma aestetic theory. He is also one of the founding partners of the national Centre for Natural Hazards and Disaster Science (CNDS).

He has published more than 300 scientific papers and is the holder of several patents. He was recipient of the Finnish Distinguished Professorship Program in 2010. As a member of MEMSWAVE, he was awarded as one of the finalists for the Descartes Prize 2002 of the Commission of the European Union.

Klas Hjort was born in Säter, Sweden, in 1964. He received the M.Sc. degree in engineering physics and the Ph.D. degree in materials science from Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden, in 1988 and 1993, respectively. In 2008, he became full Professor and since 2012 he is Head of the Microsystems Technology (MST) program at Uppsala University.

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Review on miniaturized paraffin phase change actuators, valves, and pumps

Ogden, Sam; Klintberg, Lena; Thornell, Greger; Hjort, Klas et al.

Part of Microfluidics and Nanofluidics, p. 53-71, 2014
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WISENET Wireless Sensor Networks VINN Excellence Center

Gunningberg, Per; Grönroos, Roland; Katardjiev, Ilia; Voigt, Thiemo et al.

2007