Prof. Per Persson

Prof. Per Persson
Centre for Environmental and Climate Research & Department of Biology, Lund
University, SE-223 62 Lund, Sweden
Phone: 046-222 17 96
Email: [email protected]
Born September 17, 1962, male, married, two children born January 16, 2005 and
December 25, 2007, Swedish citizen
Education
1986-1990
1982-1986
Doctor of Philosophy in Inorganic Chemistry, Lund University and
Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, December 1990.
Title of thesis: On the Adsorption of Alkylxanthate Ions on Sulfide
Mineral and Synthetic Metal Sulfide Surfaces.
BSc Chemistry, Lund University.
Professional positions
2013Professor in Molecular Geochemistry, Centre for Environmental and
Climate Research & Department of Biology, Lund University
2012-2013
BECC funded visiting professor at 25%, Centre for Environmental and
Climate Research, Lund University
2010-2011
Visiting professor, Department of Geological and Environmental
Sciences, School of Earth Sciences, Stanford University
2005-2014
Professor in Molecular Geochemistry, Department of Chemistry,
Umeå University
1998-2005
Senior lecturer, Department of Chemistry, Umeå University
1994-1998
Assistant professor (forskarassistent), Department of Chemistry, Umeå
University
1992-1993
Lecturer, Group of Inorganic and Physical Chemistry, Department of
Chemistry, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences
1991-1992
Postdoctoral research associate, School of Earth Sciences, Stanford
University. Topic: Metal ion adsorption on mineral surfaces;
Supervisors: Gordon E. Brown, Jr and George Parks
Supervision (as main advisor) of doctoral and post-doctoral students
PhD:
Laurence Bochatay, Fil. Lic. 1999; Julia Sheals, PhD 2002; Kristina
Axe, PhD 2002; Katarina Norén, PhD 2007; Malin Lindegren, PhD
2009; Rickard Olsson, PhD 2011; Anneli Sundman, PhD 2014.
Post-docs: Dr. Marina Kaplun from St. Petersburg University, November 2001April 2003; Dr. John Loring from University of California Davis,
September 2003-November 2004; Dr. Dip Banerjee from ETH Zürich,
June 2005-September 2007; Dr. Andràs Gorzsas from Umeå University,
June 2005-2008; Dr. Laura Leone from University of Naples, January
2005-November 2007; Dr. Torbjörn Karlsson from SLU, February
2007-March 2010; Dr. Janice Kenney from Notre Dame University,
September 2010-2014.
Honors and awards
2010
The Blaustein visiting professor award, Stanford University
2000
The Royal Skytteanian Society (Kungliga Skytteanska Samfundet)
award for younger scientists. Awarded for the research concerning the
chemistry of mineral surfaces
1997
Awarded the title of associate professor (docent) in Inorganic
Chemistry, Umeå University
1991
Post-doctoral fellowship, SJFR
1986-1990
PhD stipend, The Swedish Board for Technical Development (STU)
Expert appointments and other external activities
2012Member of the review panel for postdoctoral applications,Swedish
Research Council
2011
Co-applicant of three MAX IV beamlines funded in the first phase
(HIPPIE, VERITAS, and XAS)
2011Member of the advisory committee for the development of the XAS
beamline at MAX IV
2010 Chairman of the review panel NT-B at the Swedish Research Council
2010 Chairman of the Research Committee, Faculty of Science and
Technology, Umeå University
2008Synchrotron experiments at Stanford Synchrotron Lightsource and
MAX-lab on average 6 weeks per year
2007- 2010 Chairman of the Research Committee, Department of Chemistry,
Umeå University
2005Referee for research grants and beamtime proposals: NSF, SNF,
NERC, ESRF, SSRL (>10 times)
2005-2007
Vice Dean, Faculty of Science and Technology, Umeå University
2003-2008
Member of the Faculty Board, Faculty of Science and Technology,
Umeå University
2001-2006
Member of the review panel NT-B at the Swedish Research Council
Invitations 2004-2014 (conferences & workshops)
2013
The Nordic Vibration Spectroscopy Symposium, Uppsala, Sweden.
2013
The 2013 SSRL/LCLS Annual Users' Meeting, Workshop: Integrating
Synchrotron Techniques into Environmental Carbon Science, Stanford,
USA.
2013
The Goldschmidt 2013 Conference, Session: Geochemical Processes at
Mineral-Water Interfaces: Insight from Macroscopic, Spectroscopic,
and Computational Methods, Florence, Italy.
2013
The Inorganic Chemistry Days 2013, Division for Inorganic Chemistry
within the Swedish Chemical Society, Åhus, Sweden.
2012
Workshop on Advanced Techniques in Actinide Spectroscopy,
Dresden, Germany.
2011
2011
2009
2008
2007
2006
2004
Workshop on Chemical and Microbial Interactions at Environmental
Interfaces, Stanford, USA;
Swedish-German Workshop on In Situ X-ray Techniques, Stockholm;
The ESS Scandinavia Seminar Series, Lund; 2010 Biogeochemical
Interfaces in Soil, DFG symposium, Jena, Germany.
Joint Meeting of The Geological Society of America and Soil Science
Society of America, Houston, USA.
The 6th European Conference on Mineralogy and Spectroscopy,
Stockholm.
Max-lab User Meeting, Lund;
The American Chemical Society National Meeting, Symposium on
Vibrational Spectroscopy in the Earth and Environmental Sciences,
Anaheim, USA;
Publications
112 peer-reviewed original articles, H-index = 33, year of first publication = 1990 and
a total of 3,095 citations (source Web of Science 2014-02-27).
Grants
In total, I have received external funding, as principal investigator, exceeding 40
MSEK including grants from the Swedish Research Council (VR), the Knut and Alice
Wallenberg Foundation, and the Kempe Foundations. This also includes the Blaustein
visiting professor award from Stanford University.

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