Head of the Group

About me

Scientist, researcher, educator, recreational road cyclist, traveller, amateur photographer etc.

Short bio

2023 - present: Professor at Chalmers University of Technology, Göteborg, Sweden
2023 - present: Affiliated Visiting Research Fellow at MAX IV Laboratory, Lund University, Lund, Sweden
2023 - present: European Society of Rheology exceutive committee member-at-large
2020 - 2024 President of the Nordic Rheology Society
2018-2023 Associate Professor at Chalmers University of Technology, Göteborg, Sweden
2019 - present Principal Investigator, Wallenberg Wood Science Centre (WWSC)
2014-2018 Senior Lecturer (tenured) at Chalmers University of Technology, Göteborg, Sweden
2011-2013 Postdoctoral Researcher at Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), Karlsruhe, Germany (AK Wilhelm)
2007-2010 PhD Student at Polytechnic University of Bucharest, Bucharest, Romania (REOROM Group)
2002-2007 Dipl. Eng at Polytechnic University of Bucharest, Bucharest, Romania

Scientific genealogy tree

It was 2022, as the world was opening up again ater the pandemic. The group had travelled to the Annual European Rheology Conference in Seville, while due to other commitments, I was not able to travel. They came back having met my postdoc and PhD advisers, for the first time. This was a generation that had been deprived of such interactions. So I thought I wouls prepare what we call a ‘science pill’ at our group meetings, talking a bit about my supervisors and their supervisors. This turned into a fantastic journey into the hisotry of science which stopeed 6 months later into the 12th century AD. The most fascinating part was reading how each and everyone of the names listed has pushed the boundaries of science a little bit further, each in their own way. Click on the images for more info.