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Room
F5121
Telephone
+46 31 772 3370 (office)
+46 (0)708 28 26 01 (mobile)
+46 31 772 3134 (fax)
Email
kasemo@fy.chalmers.se
Curriculum vitae
CV, Kasemo 2p_080417.doc
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Bibliography.
Bengt Kasemo (born 1942) is Professor of Physics at Chalmers University of Technology, Gothenburg, since 1983. He has published around 370 scientific papers, and is a frequently invited international conference speaker (ca.10 per year). His papers are cited over 9000 times to date.
He heads a research group of 40 people active in Surface Science, Nanoscience and Nanotechnology, Biomedical Materials, Catalysis for automotive emission leaning, and Sustainable Energy Technology - solar cells, hydrogen production and storage, fuel cells,..).
He is the co-founder of the internationally recognized Competence Center for Catalysis at Chalmers, primarily active in the area of Automotive Catalytic Emission Cleaning. The center is joining academic and industrial research, and has member companies like Volvo AB, Volvo Personal Cars (Ford), Saab AB (GM), Scania AB and Haldor Topsoe A/S.
He recently received new grants to build a program on Nanotechnology for Sustainable Energy and Environment at Chalmers, involving e.g. solar cells, hydrogen technology, photocatalysis for environmental cleaning and more.
He has been directing/co-ordinating several large national programs on biomaterials and biointerfaces and was coordinator of the EU FP 6 STREP program Nanocues. He is currently involved in 4 EU projects
He serves on the editorial boards of several international scientific journals.
He has been serving on several national science policy and research funding boards, including the Swedish Government's Advisory Board for Research.
He is a member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences (KVA) and of the Royal Swedish Academy of Engineering Sciences (IVA), and has served one period as vice president for the latter. At both academies he is a member of their energy and environment committees, and is currently chairing a joint project between the two academies on communicating energy issues to society including a new book – Aspects on Energy (in Swedish).
He has received several prices and awards e.g. the Gold Medal Large Size from IVA (2007), the George Winter award from the European Society for Biomaterials (1999) and the Akzo-Nobel Prize from the Royal Academy of Engineering Sciences (2001). He was in 2005 appointed Doctor Technices Honoris Causa at the Danish Technical University, Lyngby.
He has about 15 patents and has co-founded four start-up companies of which one, Q-Sense AB, is still active with about 30 people emplyed. He is on the Board of Directors of the listed company Biolin AB, and has previously served on the BoDs for Gyros AB, Quartz Pro AB and Q-Sense AB (chairman)
He is a member of the American Physical Society, American Chemical Society, American Vacuum Society, and the Biomaterials Society.
He is on the scientific advisory boards of the Fritz Haber Institute (a Max Planck Institute) in Berlin, the Materials Science Department at ETH Zurich, the Hefei National Laboratory for Physical Sciences at the Microscale (HFNL) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, the Center for Individual Nanoparticle Functionality (CINF) at DTU Copenhagen, the Centre of Excellence in Catalytic Science at the K.U.Leuven, Belgium, and the Institute of Nanotechnology Catalonia, Barcelona, Spain and the COMP CoE at Helsinki University .
During 2006 he was chairing a Norwegian committee to formulate a National Strategy for Nanotechnology in Norway, where energy technology is one of the highest priority areas (published Nov 2006).
Since five years he is Chairman of the Scientific Board of the Volvo Research and Education Foundation, funding world-wide projects on urban transport systems.
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