Professor

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 Gunnar Svedberg (born 12 August 1947 in Annefors, Bollnäs Municipality

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) was the Rector

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 of the University of Gothenburg, in Sweden

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.

Svedberg studied at the Royal Institute of Technology

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 (KTH) in Stockholm

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 and received a Ph.D.

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 in chemical engineering

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 in 1975. He became a full professor at the KTH in 1989. He was the Rector (corresponding to Vice-Chancellor or President) of Mid Sweden University College from 1999 to 2003, and of Gothenburg University

Gothenburg University

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 between July 2003 and September 2006. President of Innventia

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, until his retirement in June 2011.

Svedberg has been a member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Engineering Sciences

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since 1992.