Staffan Lundström

Current Employment

Professor in Fluid Mechanics May 2004 at Luleå University of Technology

The Professor of Fluid Mechanics at Luleå University of Technology (LTU) since 2008-07

Chair of Division of Fluid and Experimental Mechanics at LTU since 2011-03

Previous Employment

• Professor, Lulea University of Technology, Sweden 040501 - 051231
• Associate Professor, Lulea University of Technology, Sweden 000701 - 040430
• Assistant Professor (Post-doc)Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden 961001 - 000703
• Researcher Swedish Institute of Composites, Sweden 901101 - 960930
• Engineer (part-time) Skellefteå hospital, Sweden 850401 - 911231

Parental Leave

One month during 2001

One month during 2005

• PhD in Fluid Mechanics 27th February 1996 at Lulea University of Technology
  Thesis: Void formation and transport in manufacturing of polymer composites, 1996: 184D (ISSN 0348-8373). The Research was carried out at the Swedish Institute of Composites (SICOMP) Supervisers were Rikard Gebart and Håkan Gustavsson.
  
• Docent in Polymeric Materials January 2001 at Chalmers University of Technology
  Title of presentation: Liquid flow through fibre networks: Simple or complex?
  
• Professor in Fluid Mechanics May 2004 at Luleå University of Technology
  Title of presentation: Fluid flow with fibre networks: Simple or complex?
  

Main supervisor of PhD-students (additional as co-supervisor)

Guidance of post-docs, research assistants and researchers

> 200 papers of which 80 accepted in journals with peer review system, 2 Book chapters

Web of Science:                 Times cited = 644              h-index = 14

Scopus:                               Times cited = 728             h-index = 15

Google Scholar:                 Times cited = 1068            h-index = 18

• Member of the Swedish National Committee for Theoretical and App Mech, 2003-01-2008-12.
• Secretary in the Swedish National Committee for Theoretical and App Mech, 2005-01-2008-12.
• Member of the SICOMP AB board 2003-09-2006-03.
• Member of Scientific Council, Nanofun-poly European Netw. of Ex. 2004-2008.
• Member of the Faste Laboratory (A VINNOVA centre of Excellence) Executive committee 2007-01-.
• Member of the evaluation panel for Mech Eng, Swedish Research Council 2007.
• Member of the Int expert group for upstream migrating salmon, Umeriver 2007-2010.
• Member of Swedish hydro power centre steering group on turbines and generators 2009-.
• Swedish representative in IUTAMs general assembly 2009-.
• One of eleven PIs in StandUp for energy, 2010-.

• Four positions at Universities,
• 19 PhD-thesis (in six countries),
• Seven Licentiate-thesis,
• Applications to the Swedish Research Council,
• Application to the German Research Foundation and EPSRC UK,
• Reviewer for a large number of journals.
• The Volvo industrial PhD-student programme.

• Member of the course committee for the School of Mechanical Engineering at Chalmers, 2000.
• Completed LMI-course on Personal leadership November (2003). “Mentor programme” ongoing.
• Completed three courses on pedagogical developments/supervising students.
• Contributed to a successful application to a new nursery programme on radiography at Ltu, 2001.
• Paper on implementation of journals in course in European Journal of Engineering Education.
• Examiner/lecturer in composite materials, turbomachinery, applied mechanics, hydrodynamics, computational fluid mechanics, advanced fluid mechanics and several PhD courses.
• Supervisor/examiner of a large numberf of student diploma works.
• Project co-ordinator of a Nordic project (Nordic Industrial Fund) on composites with 11 industries and 4 institutes, Composites with RTM, 950201-960930.
• Project co-ordinator of a Nordic project (nordtest) on measurement of the in-plane permeability with 4 partners, 970901-980831.
• Responsible for research education at the Dep. of App. Phys. & Mech. Eng. about 100 PhD-students 2005-2008.
• Member of the Executive committee of Dep of App Phys and Mech Eng, LTU 2007-08-2010-12.
• Member of the Executive committee of Dep of Eng. Sci. and Math, LTU 2011-03-
• Member of the board of Luleå University of Technology, 2011-02-.
• Scientific director of the Research and innovation area “Smart Machines and Materials” 2013-04-

• Responsible for “Svenska mekanikdagar” 2007 in Luleå, Head of organisation Commitee.
• Member of the Scientific Committee for: the 4_th Int. Scientific Colloquium on Modelling for Material Processing, Riga, June 8-9, (2006)., the 2_nd Int. Symp. on “Nanostructured and Functional Polymer-based Materials and Nanocomposites”, Lyon, France, May 29-31 (2006), the 3rd Int. Symp. on “Nanostructured and Functional Polymer- based Materials and Nanocomposites”, Corfu, Greece, May 13-15 (2007), the 9th Int. Conference on Flow Processes in Composite Materials, Montréal, Canada, July 10-14 (2008), the 6th Int. Scientific Colloquium on Modelling for Material Processing, Riga, Sept 16-17, (2010).
• Member of the Local Organising Committee for ECCM-13, Stockholm, Sweden, June 2-5 (2008)

• Australia: Prof John Sheridan, Monash University, flow down-stream a fish attraction channel, formation of vortices(2010 – present): Prof Graham Nathan University of Adelaide, combustion and flow (2008 – present)
• Latvia: Prof Andris Jacovics, Latvian University, Docent Vilnis Frishfelds, Leipaja University, flow in porous media (2003-present)
• US: Prof Jonathan Freund, Univ. of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign fibre orientation (2007 – 2010)
• Korea: Prof Wook Ryol Hwang, Gyeongsang National University, multiphase flow, 2012-, Prof Dong-Hyan Kim, Gyeongsang National University, multiphase flow, 2012-, wind-power
• The Netherlands, Prof. Piet Lugt,SKF, Grease Rheology
   

• Married (-99), children (-98), (-00) and (-04)
  
• First goal in Senior football-team Burträsk IK, (-83) The Swedish Cup. 1.56.03, 800m, Gävle, (-87). 2.04.43, Lidingöloppet, 30 km, (-89). 6.44.14, Vasaloppet, 90 km, (-95).
  
• Asta Kask Jönköping (-84), Roskilde festival, (-86). U2, Josua Tree Tour at the hippodrome in Paris (-87).