EAIE session
Discover the stories and human values that Sweden has to offer international students through this fun and interactive fact-filled introduction to higher education in Sweden. This session is a great opportunity to explore the exciting higher education space of our host location. This session is open to all conference attendees.
Torbjörn "Toby" Lundh is a professor in Mathematical Biology and advisor to the president at Chalmers University of Technology on internationalisation. He is the president of UNITECH international and has recently been a deputy vice chancellor at University of Gothenburg. There, he was Strategic responsible and Chair of the Alliance Management Board of the European network EUTOPIA, 2021-2023 and a board member in: Board member in Universeum, Gothenburg, Sahlgrenska Science Park, GU-ventures, and Lindholmen Science Park. He has been at Stanford; first to Vascular Surgery, 2015 and last year at Biodesign, Jan. 2024 to April 2024.
He got a MSc Engineering Physics, and then a PhD Mathematics in potential theory, Uppsala University, 1996. Three postdocs: 1997 Cambridge, UK; 1997-1999, SUNY, Stony Brook, NY; 1999-2000, Institut Mittag-Leffler. He made a switch 2010 to mathematical biology.
A few board assignments are: Chair of the Swedish Committee on Education in Mathematics, Chair of the Swedish National Committee for Mathematics under KVA, Vice Chair of Chalmers’ Faculty Senate, Vice Chair of European Society of Mathematical and Theoretical Biology.
Research interest in morphology, evolution, artificial life, speciation, game theory, population dynamics, cancer treatment, and general modeling. Furthermore, he has lately been engaged in problem focused research related to surgery, and in particular, vascular surgery, as in compression therapy. Some of these need-based projects has led to solutions that in turn has been transformed into innovations and a few of these to start-ups. One of these start-ups made an "exit" a year ago – giving Lundh invaluable experience in the whole life cycles of research based medtech innovations. Regarding the pandemic interest, that started as a support activity to the Sahlgrenska University Hospital but has now led to several research projects and Chalmers’ Impact Prize.
