CURRICULUM VITAE OF T. STAFFAN LUNDSTRÖM

This CV is divided into wo parts: Academic merits and Merits in leadership.

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ACADEMIC MERITS

Education

• MSc. in Mechanical Engineering December 1990 from Luleå University of Technology (LTU)
• PhD in Fluid Mechanics 27th February 1996 at LTU

Current and previous employment

• Professor in Fluid Mechanics, LTU since 2004-05
• Chair Professor of Fluid Mechanics, LTU since 2008-07
• Head of Division of Fluid and Experimental Mechanics, LTU since 2011-03
• Adjunct Professor at School of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, Gyeongsang National University (GNU), Republic of Korea since 2021-03
• Head of Div. of Fluid Mechanics LTU 0601–1102,
• Professor LTU 0405 – 0512,
• Associate Professor LTU 0007 – 0404,
• Assistant Professor Chalmers 9610 – 0006,
• Researcher SICOMP (Now RISE) 9011 – 9609

Exchange

• Visits to Prof John Sheridan, Monash University, Prof Graham Nathan University of Adelaide,) Prof Andris Jacovics, Latvian University, Prof Scott White, Univ. of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Prof Wook Ryol Hwang, Gyeongsang National University, Prof Dahlhaug & Prof Alfredsen NTNU.

Docentship

• Docent in Polymeric Materials January 2001 at Chalmers University of Technology.

Supervision

• Main supervisor for 22 PhD-students to PhD.
• Main supervisor for additional 6 PhD-student to Lic.
• Currently Main supervisor for 4 PhD-students.
• Co-supervisor of many previous and current PhD-students.
• Supervisor for 6 junior researchers.
• Supervisor for 7 Post-docs.

Main supervisor of PhD-students at LTU if not stated otherwise.

Supervisor of Postdocs and Junior researchers. All at LTU

Expert assignments

• 18 positions at Universities (Sweden, USx2 and UK),
• 44 PhD-thesis (in 11 countries, Sweden, Denmark, Germany, Switzerland, Spain, India, Australiax2, South Koreax3, Latvia, Finland, Canada),
• 8 Licentiate-thesis,
• Applications to the German Research Foundation “Clusters of Excellence 2023”, Research Council Norway 2015-18, 21, Swiss National Science Foundation, 2022, Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research 2018, National Research Council Canada on-site 2016, Swedish Energy Agency Basic research programme 2018-2019, 2022, Swedish Research Council 2022-23, (Post-docs), the German Research Foundation, EPSRC UK and the Volvo industrial PhD-student programme.
• Member of the Editorial board of Water. Guest editor of Special issue for Flow Processing in Composites Materials in Composites Part A (2020). Reviewer for many journals including Nature communications.

Invited talks (examples)

• Seminar, Gyeongsang National University, 2023, “Flow through Porous Media
  From Stokes Flow to Turbulent Flow”
• Korea-Sweden R&D Network Day 2020 “Fluid mechanical aspects of facemasks”,
• Scott White symposium at ICCM22, Melbourne, 2019 “Micro-mechanical modeling of flow….”
• Society of Engineering Science 53rd meeting at University of Maryland October 2016 “Porous media flow”.
• Work-shop on Coastal whitefish resources – heading for natural reproduction and better fisheries in Helsinki November 2016 “Fluid mechanics of fish migration”.
• Nanohour, Beckman Institute, UIUC, 2014 “Micro-mechanical modeling of flow….”
• Interpore Prague May 2013 “Flow during composites manufacturing”.
• Key note speaker SMD2013, Svenska mekanikdagar Lund 2013

Other relevant distinctions and merits in media, public panels, etc, examples

• Awarded the 2023 Nordea Scientific Prize for outstanding contributions that promote scientific research and development Nov. 11 2023.
• Panel member at a Swedish parliament seminar on the EU framework directive for hydropower, April 19 2023.
• Policy Breif on “Increased flexibility of hydropower: Social acceptance and Mitigation of Environmental impact” 2023, one of 5 authors.
• About that facemasks hinder the spread of particles: Dec 14-16 2021: Swedish radio (Ekot, Vetenskapsradion, Studio 1) Dagens nyheter on the web in the paper (1 whole page) Swedish Television 4 in ”Malou Efter 10, etc.
• Svensk forskning ska hjälpa lösa munskyddsgåtan” TV4 July 17 2020,
• ”Ny teknik underlättar fiskvandring” Ekot Sept 30, 2014, ”
• “Oljan mats med hjälp av film” Vetenskapsradions veckomagasin, Sept 24 2010.
• “Försök med miljövänlig vattenkraft” Ekot May 14 2010.

Intellectual property rights

• One patent application.

Financing (Examples)

Horizon Europe, H2020, Swedish Research Council, VINNOVA, Swedish Energy Agency, Energiforsk (SVC), Formas, Kempe foundation, Fiskefonden, HLRC, LKAB, Vattenfall AB, SKF, etc. Total research budget is 15 - 20 MSEK a year.

Areas within fluid mechanics

Flow in porous media, particulate flow, flow with free surface, turbulent flow, heat and mass transfer, capillary flow (wicking), non-Newtonian flow, optimisation, simulation driven design, wetting dynamics, multiphase flow, digital twins, machine learning methods

Areas of application

Hydropower including fish-migration, Minerals processing, Composites manufacturing, Flow in human airways, Reactive filters, Bearings and grease, Paper making, Bio-fuels, Wind-power, Datacentres, Batteries, Stormwater

MERITS IN LEADERSHIP

Work

• Professor in Fluid Mechanics, LTU since 2004-05
• Chair Professor of Fluid Mechanics, LTU since 2008-07
• Head of Division of Fluid and Experimental Mechanics, LTU since 2011-03
• Adjunct Professor at School of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, Gyeongsang National University (GNU), Republic of Korea since 2021-03
• Head of Div. of Fluid Mechanics LTU 0601–1102,
• Professor LTU 0405 – 0512,
• Associate Professor LTU 0007 – 0404,
• Assistant Professor Chalmers 9610 – 0006,
• Researcher SICOMP (Now RISE) 9011 – 9609,
• Medical technician Skellefteå lasarett (between semesters) 8603-9006
• Parental leave 2 months (in total)

Organisation and management

I lead the Fluid Mechanics group at LTU with about 35 Researchers and PhD-students. I am also the Head of the Division of Fluid and Experimental Mechanics with more than 50 Researchers and PhD-students. This fact, and the experience listed below show that I both can take the main leading role as well as assist in a leading group. As a leader I have the experience of many different environments locally and globally. As an example I lead one national Excellence centre, has been in the leading group in another national Excellence centre and contributed in the leading group in a large H2020 project.

External Duties

• Director Swedish Centre for Sustainable Hydropower, A Swedish Energy Agency Centre of Excellence, 2022-.
• Co-ordinator and main applicant to a granted Horizon project 2023-2027 called STORE2HYDRO with budget of nearly 5 MEuro.
• One of three members of the Faste Laboratory Executive committee, A VINNOVA Centre of Excellence. 2007-2016
• Member of the Executive board and leader WP5 (Social Acceptance and Mitigation of Environmental Impact) in Hydroflex an H2020 project on flexible hydropower 2018-2022.
• Member of the ETIP HYDROPOWER Governing board. Sector 6: Research, Innovation & Development. 2023-
• Coordinator of SP4 in EERA JP Hydropower (Water resources, environmental impacts and climate adaptation) 2019-
• Member of the Swedish hydropower centre (SVC) steering group on turbines and generators 2009-2020.
• University manager and main applicant of SVC 2018-2021.
• Serves as Academic Backbone of the “111 Project” Discipline Innovation and Research Base on River Network Hydrodynamics System and Safety” at Hohai University, China 2017-.
• Member of the HYDROPOWER EUROPE Consultation Expert Panel 20-22.
• One of eleven PIs in StandUp for energy, 2010-.
• Member of the international expert group for upstream migrating salmon, Umeriver 2007-2010
• Swedish representative in IUTAMs general assembly 2009-.
• Conference General Chair of the 14th International Conference on Flow Processes in Composite Materials, 30 May - 1 June, 2018, Luleå, Sweden with about 140 participants from 30 countries.
• Responsible for “Svenska mekanikdagar” 2007 in Luleå, Head of organisation Commitee.
• Member of the Local Organising Committee for ECCM-13, Stockholm, Sweden, June 2-5 (2008), Member of the Scientific Committee for: the 4th Int. Scientific Colloquium on Modelling for Material Processing, Riga, June 8-9, (2006)., the 2nd 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).

Internal duties

• Deputy head, Department of Engineering Sciences and Mathematics at LTU 2023-
• Research Ethical Advisor at LTU 2020-.
• Member of the steering group for the research area Natural resources for sustainability transitions (SUN) at LTU, 2020-.
• Scientific director of the Research and innovation area “Smart Machines and Materials” 2013-2019.
• Member of the board of LTU, 2011-2017.
• Member of Department (TVM) leading group, LTU 2007-.
• Active member of several recruitment groups at LTU 2010-
• Responsible for research education at the Dep. of App. Phys. & Mech. Eng. about 100 PhD-students 2005-2008.

Education

• PhD in Fluid Mechanics 27th February 1996 at LTU
• in Mechanical Engineering December 1990 from LTU.
• Uppdrag ledare. Leadership training for competence centre leaders VINNOVA 2008-2010
• Leadership training for competence centre leaders, Swedish Energy Agency 2022-
• Strategiskt chefs- och ledarprogram LTU, 2020-2021