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Anders Flodström
University Chancellor, Swedish National Agency for Higher Education – Member of Executive Committee, Governing Board European Institute of Technology (EIT)
Professor Anders Flodström is University Chancellor at the Swedish National Agency for Higher Education. Since 1985 he is professor in physics at the Royal Institute of Technology (KTH) in Stockholm, Sweden.
Anders Flodström has been the Secretary General of the Swedish Research Council for Engineering Sciences and president at Linköping University (LiU) in Sweden. He has also been president at the Royal Institute of Technology (KTH) in Stockholm until July 2007 when he was appointed to the post as University Chancellor for the Swedish universities.
He is member of the Swedish Academy for the Engineering Sciences (IVA). He is also honorary doctor at Riga Technical University in Latvia, honorary doctor of Helsinki Technical University (TKK) and honorary professor in Dalian University of Technology in China. He is a member of the advisory board of Karlsruhe Technical Institute (KIT) and the chairman of CLUSTER, a European network of technical universities.
Anders Flodström has written about 300 articles in scientific international journals and 10 book chapters. He has supervised more than 30 PhD and numerous Master students. He is a referee for Physical Review and Surface Science.
Anders Flodström started his career in Palo Alto, USA, as member of research staff in Xerox Palo Alto Research Center. He has also been guest researcher at HASYLAB/DESY in Hamburg, Germany as well as in National Bureau of Standards (NBS) in Gaithersburg, USA.