Kersti Hermansson Explained

Kersti Hermansson (born in 1951) is a Professor for Inorganic Chemistry at Uppsala University.^[1]

Education and professional career

She did her PhD on "The Electron Distribution in the Bound Water Molecule" in 1984. From 1984 to 1986, she had a postdoctoral fellowship from the Swedish Research Council with Dr. E. Clementi at IBM-Kingston, USA. From 1986–1988, she was a Högskolelektor in Inorganic Chemistry at Uppsala University. In 1988, she was a docent of Inorganic Chemistry at Uppsala University. In 1996, she was a Biträdande professor. Since 2000, she is a professor of Inorganic Chemistry at Uppsala University. During this time (2008-2013), she was a part-time guest professor at KTH Stockholm.

Research

Her research focuses on condensed-matter chemistry including the investigation of chemical bonding and development of quantum chemical methods.^[2]

Awards

She received several prizes for her research:

• "Letterstedska priset" from the Swedish Royal Academy of Sciences (KVA) (1987)
• "Oskarspriset" from Uppsala University (1988)
• "Norblad-Ekstrand" medal in gold from the Swedish Chemical Society (2003)
• Member of Kungl. Vetenskapssamhället (Academia regia scientiarum Upsaliensis, KVSU), Uppsala (since 1988)
• Member of Royal Society of Science (since 2002)
• Member of Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences (since 2007)^[3]
• Adjunct professor at the Kasetsart University, Bangkok (2005)
• Honorary guest professor at the Department of Ion Physics and Applied Physics, Innsbruck University (since June 2009)

References

1. Web site: CV Hermansson. 2020-08-07.
2. Web site: Research projects Teoroo – Theoretical inorganic chemistry group. 2020-08-07. en-US.
3. Web site: Royal Swedish Academy of Science.