Research programmes and professors responsible for the programmes

Each research programme has a professor responsible for the programme. For the programme coordinator's tasks etc. see the Rules of Procedure for the Disciplinary Domain of Science and Technology.

The professor responsible for the research programme is appointed by the area board (delegated to the working committee) on the proposal of the head of department.

Terms of office will be three years from 2021-01-01, but without a limit on the number of terms of office.

Computational Biology and Bioinformatics

Programme director: Johan Åqvist

Date of entry: 2019-04-09

Microbiology and Immunology

Programme director: Fredrik Söderbom

Date of entry: 2019-09-10

Molecular Biology

Programme director: Anthony Forster

Date of entry: 2024-01-01

Molecular Biophysics

Programme director: Filipe Maia

Date of entry: 2021-01-01

Molecular Evolution

Programme director: Siv Andersson

Date of entry: 2010-01-01

Molecular Systems Biology

Programme director: Johan Elf

Date of entry: 2016-01-01

Structural Biology

Programme director: Stefan Knight

Date of entry: 2018-01-01

Evolutionary Biology

Programme director: Niclas Backström

Date of entry: 2021-12-01

Limnology

Programme director: Silke Langenheder

Date of entry: 2025-01-01

Plant Ecology and Evolution

Programe director: Sophie Karrenberg

Date of entry: 2020-03-01

Animal Ecology

Programme director: Anna Qvarnström

Date of entry: 2025-01-01

Electricity

Programme director: Mats Leijon

Date of entry: 2001-01-01

Solid-State Electronics

Programme director: Shi-Li Zhang

Date of entry: 2010-01-01

Signals and Systems

Programme director: Subhrakanti Dey

Date of entry: 2022-05-24

Condensed Matter Physics of Energy Materials

Programme director: Håkan Rensmo

Date of entry: 2021-01-01

Physics Education Research

Programme director: Urban Eriksson

Date of entry: 2024-01-01

High Energy Physics

Programme director: Arnaud Ferrari

Date of entry: 2022-06-01

Instrumentation and Accelerators

Programme director: Hermann Dürr

Date of entry: 2019-10-01

Chemical and Biomolecular Physics

Programme director: Philippe Wernet

Date of entry: 2021-01-01

Quantum Matter Theory

Programme director: Annica Black-Schaffer

Date of entry: 2020-05-01

Nuclear Physics

Programme director: Karin Schönning

Date of entry: 2024-10-01 – 2026-12-31

Materials Physics

Programme director: Daniel Primetzhofer

Date of entry: 2024-04-16

Materials Theory

Programme director: Olle Eriksson

Date of entry: 2002-01-01

Observational Astrophysics

Programme director: Nikolai Piskunov

Date of entry: 1996-07-01

Space and Plasma Physics

Programme director: Yuri Khotyaintsev

Date of entry: 2024-04-16

Theoretical Astrophysics

Programme director: Paul Barklem

Date of entry: 2019-01-01

Theoretical Physics

Programme director: Maxim Zabzine

Date of entry: 2014-09-09

Applied Nuclear Physics

Programme director: Stephan Pomp

Date of entry: 2018-01-01

Geophysics

Programme director: Olafur Gudmundsson

Date of entry: 2022-06-01

Air, Water and Landscape Sciences

Programme director: Giuliano di Baldassarre

Date of entry: 2024-10-01 – 2026-12-31

Mineralogy, Petrology and Tectonics

Programme director: Peter Lazor

Date of entry: 2013-01-01

Natural Resources and Sustainable Development

Programme director: Vallentin Troll

Date of entry: 2023-06-01

Paleobiology

Programme director: Graham Budd

Date of entry: 2013-01-01

Artificiell intelligence

Programme director: Thomas Schön

Date of entry: 2020-03-01

Image Analysis and Human-Computer Interaction

Programme director: Ginevra Castellano

Date of entry: 2024-01-01

Computing Science

Programme director: Pierre Flener

Date of entry: 2019-02-05

Computing Education Research

Programme director: Mats Daniels

Date of entry: 2020-03-01

Computer Architecture and Communication Systems

Programme director: Christian Rohner

Date of entry: 2022-01-25

Computer Systems

Programme director: Bengt Jonsson

Date of entry: 2025-01-01

Numerical Analysis

Programme director: Gunilla Kreiss

Date of entry: 2007-01-01

Automatic Control

Programme director: Alexander Medvedev

Date of entry: 2014-01-01

Computational Science

Programme director: Elisabeth Larsson

Date of entry: 2020-06-09

Evolution and Development

Programme director: Per Ahlberg

Date of entry: 2010-01-01

Physiology and Environmental Toxicology

Programme director: Joëlle Rüegg

Date of entry: 2023-01-01

Human Evolution

Programme director: Mattias Jakobsson

Date of entry: 2018-02-06

Systematic Biology

Programme director: Martin Ryberg (tf)

Date of entry: 2022-05-01

Physical Chemistry

Programme director: Leif Hammarström

Date of entry: 2012-01-01

Molecular Biomimetics

Programme director: Gustav Berggren

Date of entry: 2024-09-01– 2026-12-31

Inorganic Chemistry

Programme director: Martin Sahlberg

Date of entry: 2022-09-20

Macromolecular Chemistry

Programme director: Jöns Hilborn

Date of entry: 2001-01-01

Structural Chemistry

Programme director: Daniel Brandell

Date of entry: 2018-01-01

Synthetic Molecular Chemistry

Programme director: Sascha Ott

Date of entry: 2018-09-11

Analytical Chemistry

Programme director: Daniel Globis

Date of entry: 2024-01-01

Biochemistry

Programme director: Ylva Ivarsson

Date of entry: 2024-01-01

Organic Chemistry

Programme director: Jan Streuff

Date of entry: 2024-01-01

Algebra and Geometry

Programme director: Tobias Ekholm

Date of entry: 2008-01-01

Analysis and Probability Theory

Programme director: Kaj Nyström

Date of entry: 2015-10-27

Applied Mathematics and Statistics

Programme director: Erik Ekström

Date of entry: 2016-02-02

Solid State Physics

Programme director: Tomas Edvinsso

Date of entry: 2024-01-01

Microsystems Technology

Programme director: Klas Hjort

Date of entry: 2012-08-01

Nanotechnology and Functional Materials

Programme director: Maria Strömme

Date of entry: 2005-01-01

Solar Cell Technology

Programme director: Marika Edoff

Date of entry: 2020-01-01

Applied Materials Science

Programme director: Håkan Engqvist

Date of entry: 2010-01-01

Applied Mechanics

Programme director: Kristofer Gamstedt

Date of entry: 2011-01-01

Civil Engineering and Built Environment

Programme director: Joakim Widén

Date of entry: 2019-07-01

Industrial Engineering and Management

Programme director: Marcus Lindahl

Date of entry: 2010-01-01

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