Curriculum vitae, Örjan Hansson, October 2012

1. Biographical data

• Name: Bengt Örjan Hansson (550225-5093)
• Birthdate and -place: February 25, 1955, Göteborg, Sweden
• Family situation: Four children (born 1983, 1985, 1988 and 1990)

2. Degrees

• Gymnasieexamen, Naturvetenskaplig linje, Hvitfeldtska gymnasiet, Göteborg, June 8, 1973.
• M.Sc. (Engineering Physics), Chalmers University of Technology, Göteborg, July 18, 1983.
• Ph.D. (Physics), Chalmers University of Technology, Göteborg, September 19, 1986.
• Associate Professor (oavlönad docent) in Biophysics, School of Chemistry, Göteborg University, May 28, 1991.

3. Professional appointments

• Amanuens (50%), Dept Biochem Biophys, Göteborg, Oct 1, 1980 to June 30, 1983.
• Assistant Researcher (forskningsassistent) (80%), Dept Biochem Biophys, Göteborg, July 1, 1983 to September 30, 1986.
• NFR Post-Doctoral Fellowship, October 1, 1986 to December 31, 1987.
• Assistant Researcher (forskningsassistent), Dept Biochem Biophys, Göteborg, January 1, 1988 to October 31, 1988.
• Assistant Researcher (forskarassistent), Dept Biochem Biophys, Göteborg, November 1, 1988 to October 31, 1992.
• Assistant Professor (universitetslektor), Dept Biochem Biophys, Göteborg, November 1, 1992 to December 31, 1997.
• Assistant Professor (universitetslektor), Dept Chemistry, Göteborg, January 1, 1998-.

4. Professional awards

• The Hugo Theorell Award in Biophysics 1994.
• Award "För nit och redlighet i rikets tjänst (NOR)" 2012.

5. Summer schools, pedagogical courses, etc

• Nordic Research Course on "Molecular spectroscopy with linearly and circulary polarized light", Göteborg, Sweden, February 2-10, 1981.
• NATO Advanced Study Institute on "Magneto-structural correlations in exchange-coupled systems", Castiglione della Pescaia, Italy, June 18-30, 1983.
• Nordic Research Course on "Synchrotron radiation", Lilla Vik, Sweden, May 30 to June 8, 1988.
• Understanding Protein Motions, Huddinge, Sweden, August 28 to September 1, 1994.
• Transient Protein Interactions, Århus, Denmark, June 23-30, 2001 (invited lecturer).
• Pedagogical course "Tal, röst och rörelse i undervisning", Göteborg University, April (3 days), 2002.
• Pedagogical course "Högskolepedagogisk introduktionskurs för lärare", Göteborg University, November (1 week), 2004.
• Pedagogical course "Flera val, flera kval - effektivare examination", Göteborg University, June (1 day), 2005.
• Course for members of the Academic Appointment Committee (lärarförslagsnämnden), Göteborg University, September 28 (1 day), 2008.

6. Teaching

• Teaching assistant in the laborative part of undergraduate biochemistry courses (1981-83).
• Lecturer in undergraduate biochemistry and biophysics courses (1984-).
• Lectures on photosynthesis and bioenergetics in the graduate courses "The biochemistry and biophysics of photosynthesis" (1989), "Biological energy transduction" (1990) and "Bioenergetics and biomembranes" (1997, 2000).
• Organization of the graduate course "Biological spectroscopy" (1995).
• Development of Internet-based undergraduate lab courses: Biomolecular Structures and Redox Proteins (www.bcbp.gu.se/edu/), 1996-.
• Member of a group that coordinates the undergraduate teaching at the Department of Chemistry, Göteborg University (1996-).
• Major responsible for the undergraduate course "Biophysics" for engineering physicists at Chalmers University of Technology (1997-2006).
• Director of the project "Computer-aided education in biochemistry" (1997-2000).
• Development of and major responsible for the undergraduate course "Biophysical chemistry for molecular biologists" at the Department of Chemistry, Göteborg University (1998-2003).
• Supervisor ("mentor") for undergraduate students in project-based learning of general chemistry at the Department of Chemistry, Göteborg University (1998-2003).
• Lectures on transient protein interactions at the summer school in Århus (see above).
• Major responsible for undergraduate courses in chemistry for teacher students (2005-).
• Evening classes in harmonica playing at ABF, Göteborg (2001-2007).

The teaching was at the Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics (Department of Chemistry from 2003), Göteborg, unless otherwise stated.

7. Supervision of thesis works

• Undergraduate students
  1. Klas Hedenstierna 1984
  2. Kalle Sigfridsson 1990
  3. Mikael Ejdebäck 1993
  4. Kenneth Olesen 1995
  5. Maria Öhrn 1995
  6. Ulf Andréasson 1996
  7. Shariar Attariani 1996
  8. Petra Amirfeiz 1998
  9. Markus Sennelöv 1998
  10. Erik Billgren 1999
  11. Yanis Houssen 1999
  12. Mats Klingberg 1999
  13. Sofia Morehed 2000
  14. Elsa Ivarsson 2002
  15. Jenny-Ann Höij 2003
  16. Lisa Svensson 2004
  17. Nathalie Scheers 2005 (examinor)
  18. Sofia Rökaeus 2006
  19. Amira Ceric 2007
  20. Charlotte Andersson 2008
  21. Emelie Öhgren 2008
  22. Karin Rödström 2008 (examinor)
  23. Gaetano Strano 2010
  24. Jenny Lindberg 2011
  25. Sofia Sinnerstedt 2011
  26. Amir Blazevic 2011 (examinor)
  27. Nikolaj Vestergard Jensen 2012 (examinor)
  28. Stephan Berglund 2012 (examinor)
  29. Bea Kovacsne Oroszvari 2012
• Graduate students
  1. Bruno Källebring 1988-90 (Dissertation, June 1, 1990)
  2. Patricia Casey 1988-90
  3. Maria Lohm 1990-91
  4. Kalle Sigfridsson 1991-1997 (Dissertation, January 31, 1997)
  5. Simon Young 1991-1997 (Dissertation, April 18, 1997)
  6. Mikael Ejdebäck 1993-1999 (Dissertation, May 21, 1999)
  7. Kenneth Olesen, 1996-2002 (Dissertation, May 8, 2002)
  8. Mats Ökvist, 1998-2004 (Dissertation, May 28, 2004)
  9. Hanna Jansson, 1999-2007 (Dissertation, October 26, 2007)
  10. Daniel Farkas, 2005-2011 (Dissertation, May 31, 2011)

8. Member of the evaluating committee at Ph. D. dissertations

1. Birgitta Mc Ewen, Department of Plant Physiology, Göteborg University, May 27, 1994.
2. Lars-Olof Pålsson, Department of Physical Chemistry, Umeå University, January 26, 1995.
3. LiChu Tsai, Department of Inorganic Chemistry, Göteborg University and Chalmers University of Technology, June 7, 1995.
4. Jerker Mårtensson, Department of Organic Chemistry, Chalmers University of Technology, March 31, 1995.
5. Katrin Lindberg, Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics, Göteborg University and Chalmers University of Technology, December 20, 1996.
6. Karin Åhrling, Department of Chemistry, The Australian National University, October 3, 1996.
7. Gunnar Dolphin, Department of Organic Chemistry, Göteborg University, June 4, 1997.
8. Susan Hess, Department of Chemical Physics, Lund University, September 19, 1997.
9. Tommi Ratilainen (tekn lic), Department of Physical Chemistry, Chalmers University of Technology, 1997.
10. Nicklas Bonander, Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics, Göteborg University and Chalmers University of Technology, November 18, 1997
11. Jan Nygren, Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics, Chalmers University of Technology, May 28, 1999
12. Martin Karpefors, Department of Molecular Biotechnology, Chalmers University of Technology, May 26, 2000
13. Tommi Ratilainen, Department of Physical Chemistry, Chalmers University of Technology, November 22, 2000.
14. Magnus Kjellberg, Department of Plant Physiology, Göteborg University, January 26, 2001
15. Mikael Brosché, Biochemistry and Biophysics, Department of Chemistry, Göteborg University, February 9, 2001
16. Tove Sjögren, Department of Biochemistry, Uppsala University, October 5, 2001
17. Joakim Andréasson, Department of Chemistry and Bioscience, Chalmers University of Technology, November 29, 2002.
18. Anette Granéli (fil lic), Biochemistry and Biophysics, Department of Chemistry, Göteborg University, January 23, 2003
19. Anders Sandberg, Biochemistry and Biophysics, Department of Chemistry, Göteborg University, February 27, 2004
20. Johan Olofsson, Department of Chemistry and Bioscience, Chalmers University of Technology, May 24, 2004.
21. Fredrik Blomgren, Department of Chemistry and Bioscience, Chalmers University of Technology, December 13, 2004.
22. Helena Hörvin Billsten, Department of Chemical Physics, Lund University, June 3, 2005.
23. Denny Johansson, Institute of Biomedicine, Sahlgrenska Academy, Göteborg University, September 26, 2008
24. Magnus Andersson, Department of Chemistry and Bioscience, Chalmers University of Technology, December 5, 2008.
25. Al-Shimaa A. Massoud, Department of Chemistry and Bioscience, Chalmers University of Technology, March 23, 2011.
26. Jonas Fredriksson, Department of Chemistry, Göteborg University, April 20, 2011.
27. Ida Namslauer, Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics, Stockholm University, February 3, 2012.
28. Linda Näsvik Öjemyr, Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics, Stockholm University, June 15, 2012.
29. Per-Fredrik Larsson, Department of Chemistry and Molecular Biology, Göteborg University, September 28, 2012.

9. Opponent at Ph. D. dissertations

• Ntei Abudu, Department of Chemistry, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Trondheim, Norway, October 7, 1998.
• Lars Elkjaer Jörgensen, Department of Mathematics and Physics, Royal Veterinary and Agricultural University, Copenhagen, Denmark, September 16, 2003.

10. Miscellaneous

• Member of the Board of the Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics, Göteborg, October 1990 to December 1993.
• Ranked second when applying for the NFR research position "Biophysical studies of macromolecules", 1991.
• Chairman and principal organizer for the EUCHEM conference "Bioinorganic Chemistry of Copper", Göteborg, Sweden, July 2-5, 1994.
• Responsible for the Web pages at the Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics, Göteborg, 1996-2003.
• Development of Web-based database applications in Linux/Apache/MySQL/PHP environment, 1997-.
• Member of the organizing committee and database responsible for the 10th European Bioenergetics Conference, Göteborg, Sweden, June 27 - July 2, 1998.
• Member of the Chemistry and Energy Committees in the Swedish Natural Science Research Council, 2000.
• Member of the Academic Appointment Committee (lärarförslagsnämnden) at the Department of Chemistry, Göteborg University, 2001-2009.
• Equal opportunities ombudsman (jämställdhetsombud) at the Department of Chemistry, Göteborg University, 2002-2003.
• Member of the Bioengineering Committee in the Swedish Research Council, 2002.
• Member of the committee for undergraduate courses (programrådet, utbildningsrådet) at the Department of Chemistry, Göteborg University, 2003-.
• Responsible for the Web pages at the Department of Chemistry, Göteborg, 2009-.
• Board member of Göteborg Blues Society, 2002-2012.

11. Scientific work

• Principal investigator of the VR-supported research project "Biophysical studies of electron-transfer reactions in photosynthesis", 1987-2006.
• More than 75 articles published in international scientific journals (see Publication list).
• Metrics from Web of Science (see http://researcherid.com/rid/D-1282-2009): Number of papers, 77; citations, 2306; h-index, 26
• Participation at more than 30 international conferences or workshops and at 15 of these as invited lecturer.

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ÖH 2012-09-03