Ph. D. 2007-05-10, in Materials Science, in particular Thin Film Physics “Multifunctional nanostructured Ti-Si-C thin films”

Postdoctoral researcher, Interdisciplinary Nanoscience Center (iNano), University of Århus, Århus, Denmark,  June 2007 – December 2008
 
Docent: Docent Lecture March 22, 2010: “Thermoelectric materials or How to use solid state physics, thermodynamics, and nanotechnology to stop global warming, travel to Mars, and cool your beer” Degree approved March 30, 2010

Employment

Assistant Professor, Linköping University

October 2008 - 2012 (leave of absence 20081001-20081231)

Visiting Professor (Professeur Invité), Université de Poitiers, Poitiers, France
June-July 2010
Visiting Senior Researcher (Chercheur Invité), Centre Nationale de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), LEM-ONERA, Châtillion, Paris, France, July - December 2008 (part time 50 %)
Postdoctoral researcher, Interdisciplinary Nanoscience Center (iNano), 
University of Århus , Denmark , June 2007 – December 2008
PhD student, Linköping University 2003-2007

Awards & honors

Elected Inaugural Member of the Young Academy of Sweden (2011-16)

Ingvar Carlsson Award, SSF (Sw. Foundation for Strategic Research)     3 MSEK
Bodycote Price Paper Competition 2006 – Winner (Best Paper)              5 kUSD
(+numerous student awards/travel grants)

PhD supervision

Sit Kedsongpanya (planned dissertation 2014), head supervisor

Steffen Sønderby (planned dissertation 2013) , head supervisor, industry PhD student 
Olof Tengstrand (planned dissertation 2013), co-supervisor to Lars Hultman
Susann Schmidt 2009-11, co-supervisor to Lars Hultman
Ali Khatibi, (planned dissertation 2012), co-supervisor to Lars Hultman
Jonas Lauridsen, (planned dissertation 2011), co-supervisor to Lars Hultman
Kristina Buchholt (planned dissertation 2011), co-supervisor to Anita Lloyd-Spetz
Graduated PhD:
Jenny Frodelius Lang (dissertation Sept. 3, 2010), co-supervisor to Lars Hultman
                Thesis “Thick and thin Ti₂AlC coatings” 
Present employer: Swedish Technical Research Institute (SP), Borås 
Postdoc supervision:
Dr. Theodore Scabarozi March 2010- February 2011 (in part at Rowan University, New Jersey)
Dr. Petru Lunca Popa November 2010-October 2012

Research grants:

SSF Ingvar Carlsson Award (2010-13)                                           3.0 MSEK

“Nanostructured oxide thin films as novel ionic conductors”
VR project grant (2010-12)                                               2.5 MSEK
“Epitaxial and nanostructured cobaltate thin films”
Nordic Innovation Center (2010-12)                                              1.4 MNOK (tot 3.8 MNOK/4 partners)
“Thin films for solid oxide fuel cells”
NordForsk Private Public Partnership grant (2009-12) 
“PhD research for industrialization of thin films for fuel cell electrolytes”1.5 MNOK (+industry co-funding)
Carlsberg Foundation postdoctoral grant (2007)                       1 MDKK
KAW Foundation Travel Grant, 2009                                            25 kSEK
Swedish Research Council Travel Grant, 2009                            34 kSEK

Other

Elected Inaugural Member of the Young Academy of Sweden (2011-16)
Theme Leader for Theme 1 in FunMat VINNOVA Excellence Center, Jan 2009-ongoing
Responsible for the department’s outreach activities at the job-market days at LiU (LARM) 2009, and host for Open House at the Alumni Days Sept. 2009
Peer review: referee for ~20 journals including Advanced Materials, Applied Physics Letters, Journal of Applied Physics, andActa/Scripta Materialia,
Proposal evaluator (Sw. sakkunnig), Austrian Science Fund

Invited Lectures

Invited talks at international conferences:
“Plasma-deposited nanostructured ceramic thin films for energy applications”
8^th Asian-European International Conference on Plasma Surface Engineering (AEPSE), Dalian, China, September 19-22, 2011
 
“Phase Stability and Low-temperature Initial Oxidation Mechanisms of Ti₂AlC Thin Films”
International Conference on Advanced Ceramics and Composites (ICACC), Daytona Beach, Florida, January 23-28, 2011

“Thermal properties, materials science, and coating processing of MAX phases for use as high temperature materials” May 12, 2010, Annual meeting of the Nordic Society of Thermal Analysis and Calorimetry (NoSTAC) in collaboration with the Danish Ceramic Society, Risø-DTU National Laboratory, Roskilde, Denmark

“How thin film processing can contribute to understanding the materials science of the MAX phases”
Materials Science & Technology (MS&T) 2009, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, October 25-29, 2009

Other invited lectures & courses:

“Material- och nanoteknik från flinta till framtid” (“Materials and nanotechnology from flintstone to future”), February 28, 2011, Linköpings föreläsningsförening (popular science for the general public)
“Les phases MAX: une nouvelle classe de matériaux métallo-ceramique et une collaboration franco-suédoise active” (“The  MAX phases : a new class of metallic-ceramic materials and an active French-Swedish collaboration”) May 20, 2010,  13^ème journée des chercheurs français en Suéde (13th conference of French researchers in Sweden [and Swedish researchers collaborating with France]), French embassy, Stockholm, Sweden 
 “The MAX phases: materials science and thin film processing” June 15, 2009, Université de Poitiers, France, invited seminar, Oct. 22, 2009, Drexel University, Philadelphia, USA, August 20, 2010, Shenyang National Laboratory for Materials Science, Shenyang, China
“Thin films as functional materials” February 27, 2009, February 12, 2010, February 10, 2011 New Materials Master’s level course (30 students from M and International Master’s programme) Linköping
“Scanning Electron microscopy and Electron Microprobe Analysis”¸ January 21, 2009, January 20, 2010, February 8, 2011 Analytical Methods in Materials Science Master’s level course (35 students from Y and International Master’s programme) Linköping
“X-ray Diffraction – a versatile technique for structural analysis of materials” April 9, 2008, ATV-SEMAPP Surface Analysis Seminar 2, Danish Technological Institute, Århus, Denmark
“Nanoindentation – basic concepts and applications” March 3, 2008, ATV-SEMAPP Surface Analysis Seminar 1, Danish Technical University, Kgs. Lyngby, Denmark (a course in surface/materials analysis aimed at industry)

Conference organization

Head organization committee member , International Conference on Reactive Sputter Deposition (RSD 2011), Linköping, Sweden, December 7-9, 2011 

Session chair & organizer, International conference on metallurgical coatings and thin films (ICMCTF), session B1 “PVD Coatings and Technologies”, 2010-12, annually (last week in April), San Diego, CA, USA 
Symposium co-organizer and session chair, International Conference on Advanced Ceramics and Composites (ICACC), symposium “Ultrahigh temperature ceramics and Nanolaminated ternary ceramics”, 2010-, annually (last week in January), Daytona Beach, FL, USA  
Session chair, 12^th International Conference on Plasma Surface Engineering (PSE), Session “Electro and Magneto Functional Thin Films”, Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Germany, September 13-17, 2010
Session chair, Materials Science & Technology (MS&T) 2010 Conference, session “ Processing of MAX Phases and Their Composites” in the symposium “Nanolaminated Ternary Carbides and Nitrides (MAX Phases)”, Houston, TX, USA, October 17-21, 2010

Evaluation committee assignments

Examination committee member for PhD defense of Daniel Lundin, 

“The HiPIMS process” [HiPIMS = high power impulse magnetron sputtering]
May 27, 2010, Linköping University

Examination committee member for PhD defense of Noël Haddad, 
“ Etude des propriétés diélectriques des phases MAX par spectroscopie de pertes d’énergie des électrons ” (“Study of dielectric properties of MAX phases by electron energy loss spectroscopy”)
February 12, 2009, Laboratoire de Physique des Solides, Université Paris-Sud 11, Orsay, France
[defense & thesis in French]