Future Research Leaders

- LiU postdoc research fellows

The quality and engagement of its faculty and students are factors important in shaping a university’s environment and future success.

Other elements may play a role, but without the standards of proficiency and a will to excel, a university can never reach international excellence. This is why recruitment of new academic staff is one of Linköping University’s most important strategic activities.

DANIEL AILI

My research is focused on the design and development of new nanoscale components for fabrication of functional materials by self-assembly. In addition to study fundamental self-assembly processes, the applications of these materials in diagnostics, triggered drug release and regenerative medicine are explored.

BO DURBEEJ

Computational chemistry. We use computational methods to solve chemical problems, with particular focus on photochemical problems in biology and technology. Current efforts are primarily aimed at understanding the mechanisms of photosensory proteins and designing efficient molecular machines.

PER-ERIK FORSSÉN

Most people find it easy to recognise objects based on their visual appearance. For a robot on the other hand, vision is a complex process that needs to be designed from scratch. The main focus of my research group is how to do this.

BJÖRN GRANSETH

We are investigating the neuronal circuit that connects the lateral geniculate nucleus (LGN) to the primary visual cortex (V1). This circuit participates in the early stages of information processing in the visual system.
CAMILLA JOSEPHSON

My aim is to study cognitive and emotional biases to better understand economic decisions under uncertainty, and more specifically how such biases affect prices, returns and the allocation of resources.
KATARINA KÅGEDAL

My research group investigates how the lysosomal system (the garbage and recycling unit in the cell) is implicated in Alzheimer’s disease. We want to discover why lysosomal function is decreased and how the lysosomal system could be reactivated to be able to degrade toxic protein species in Alzheimer’s disease.

PATRIK LUNDSTRÖM

Protein structure, dynamics and function. I use nuclear magnetic resonance, NMR, spectroscopy to study protein structure and dynamics and their relationship with protein function.
EVA LÖVBRAND

Climate research at the interface of science, politics and democracy. Anthropogenic climate change is one of the most complex and politically contested environmental issues of our times. Scientifically it concerns the climatic effects of human induced greenhouse gas (GHG) emission to the atmosphere.

HANNE LÖVLIE

Why do animals have personality and what are the consequences of this variation? I study animal personality with an evolutionary and ecological approach to better understand variation in animal behaviours.

MATTIAS MAGNUSSON

Rheumatoid arthritis is an autoimmune, inflammatory disease. Autoimmunity is characterised by an immune attack on self tissues, and in rheumatoid arthritis the joints are primarily attacked. The aim of Mattias Magnussons project is to instruct the immune system not to attack the joint.

JESPER OLSSON

Hello there!” Those were the first words that the Swedish poet Gunnar Ekelöf uttered into the microphone when he recorded his voice for the first time on a wire recorder in 1950. But whom did Ekelöf address? Himself? An unknown listener in the future? A ghost in the machine?

ELIN PALM

Is there a right to exclude or a duty to admit immigrants? A widespread use of surveillance-based migration control, has made this a highly relevant question for discussion. Increasingly, sophisticated surveillance technologies are used to: control borders, differentiate between authorized and non-authorized migrants and continuously monitor migration flow.

SOFIA RAMSTRÖM

When a blood vessel is damaged, the leakage has to be stopped in time, but it is equally important that the repair does not continue until the vessel is completely blocked. The blood platelets play a crucial role in both these events.

KOSTAS SARAKINOS

Properties of materials are solely determined by chemical composition and atomic order. Our research strategy encompasses combined use of innovative synthesis methods together with advanced experimental and theoretical tools to elucidate the complex relations between chemistry, atomic order, and properties in physical vapor deposited thin films and coatings.

  
CHARIYA VIROJANADARA

Investigations of graphene and its interactions with foreign atoms and molecules. Graphene is nowadays one of the most dynamic research topics in the field of nanoscience. It has potential applications in newly designed electronic devices with high charge mobility and ideal structural properties (lightness and flexibility).