Academic positions

  • Since 1/2024 Division head, Division of physical chemistry, Lund University
  • Since 2/2020 Senior lecturer, Division of physical chemistry, Lund University
  • 6/2016-1/2020 Associate senior lecturer (tenure track), Division of physical chemistry, Lund University
  • 2/2015-5/2016 Researcher, Division of physical chemistry, Lund University
  • 4/2012-1/2015 Postdoctoral researcher, School of physics and astronomy, University of Edinburgh

Academic degrees

  • 5/2018 Docent (Associate professor) in physical chemistry, Lund University
  • 2/2012 PhD in physical chemistry, Lund University. Thesis title: “Theoretical Studies of Simple Polar Fluids”  [Download]
  • 6/2007 Master of Science (4 years) in chemistry, Lund University
  • 6/2007 University diploma (2 years) in musicology, Lund University

Grants and Awards

  • 2022 Selected as “Outstanding Reviewer” by Soft Matter
  • 2022 Personal grant from the Schyberg Foundation of the Royal Physiographic Society
  • 2020-2025 Co-PI on grant Active Matter Goes Smart funded by the Knut and Alice Wallenberg foundation (more info)
  • 2020-2024 4-year personal project grant from the Swedish Research Council
  • 2017-2021 4-year personal starting grant from the Crafoord Foundation
  • 2016-2020 Co-PI on grant Anisotropic Forces in Colloid Chemistry funded by the Knut and Alice Wallenberg foundation
  • 2016-2019 4-year personal starting grant from the Swedish Research Council
  • 2015 AkzoNobel Nordic Prize in surface and colloid chemistry
  • 2013 Inga Fischer-Hjalmars award for outstanding thesis in theoretical chemistry
  • 2012-2015 3-year International Postdoc grant from the Swedish Research Council

Selected presentations

  • 9/2025 Keynote speaker, International Soft Matter Conference, Crete
  • 6/2024 Invited speaker, Anti-Diffusion in Multiphase and Active Flows, Isaac Newton Institute for Mathematical Sciences, Cambridge
  • 3/2024 Invited speaker, 13th Nordic Workshop on Statistical Physics, Stockholm
  • 8/2023 Invited speaker, CECAM workshop Challenges in the Physics of Active and Biological Matter, Helsinki
  • 3/2023 Invited speaker, 12th Nordic Workshop on Statistical Physics, Stockholm
  • 7/2022 Invited speaker at the 4-week NORDITA workshop Current and Future Themes in Soft and Biological Active Matter, Stockholm
  • 11/2021 Invited speaker, Frontiers in Theoretical Biophysics workshop, Gyeongju
  • 10/2021 Invited speaker, Tøyen Hovedgård Workshop on Biomechanics, Oslo
  • 4/2021 Invited seminar, Institute for Theoretical Physics, Utrecht University
  • 2/2020 Invited speaker, CECAM workshop Frontiers in Computational Methods for Active Matter, Lausanne
  • 10/2019 Invited speaker, CECAM workshop Active Matter and Artificial Intelligence, Lausanne
  • 4/2019 Invited speaker, Interdisciplinary Challenges in Non-Equilibrium Physics, Edinburgh
  • 1/2018 Invited speaker, From Active Matter to Complex Fluids, Nice
  • 10/2017 Invited seminar, Centre for Interdisciplinary Mathematics, Uppsala University
  • 7/2017 Conference presentation, 10th Liquid Matter Conference, Ljubljana
  • 3/2017 Invited speaker, 8th Nordic Workshop on Statistical Physics, Stockholm
  • 1/2017 Invited seminar, NORDITA, Stockholm
  • 9/2016 Conference presentation, 4th International Soft Matter Conference, Grenoble
  • 8/2016 Invited speaker, Swedish theoretical chemistry, Lund
  • 1/2016 Conference presentation, Physical principles of active and biological systems, Edinburgh
  • 12/2015 Invited seminar, Technical University of Vienna
  • 11/2015 Invited speaker, Colloids and surfaces in biology and biomaterials, Uppsala
  • 11/2014 Conference presentation, 67th meeting of the APS Division of Fluid Dynamics, San Francisco
  • 10/2014 Invited seminar, Warwick University
  • 7/2014 Conference presentation, 9th Liquid Matter Conference, Lisbon
  • 11/2011 Invited seminar, Helmholtz-Zentrum, Potsdam
  • 9/2010 Conference presentation, 8th European Conference on Computational Chemistry, Lund