Professors updated from 2007 - 2010

Professors, co-opted and visiting professors from A to Ö

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Kadefors Roland – Faculty of Education, Department of Work Science ROLAND KADEFORS - born in Lindesberg in 1939. He graduated with a Ph.D. and became Associate Professor in Medical Electronics at Chalmers University of Technology in 1973, and did research in neurophysiology, orthopaedics, and rehabilitation, until joining shipbuilding industry in the 1970’s as head of occupational health engineering in Swedyards Corporation. He was manager of the Gothenburg branch of the Swedish National Institute for Working Life from its start in 1999. His main research interests are in ergonomics and musculoskeletal strain. In 2006, he managed a study for the Swedish government of the working life consequences of the ageing population. He is currently engaged in studies relating to the ageing workforce and since 2007 Visiting Professor.
Kahnberg Karl-Erik - The Sahlgrenska Academy, Dept of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery KARL_ERIK KAHNBERG - born in Helsingborg in 1941. He studied odontology and was employed as assistant professor in 1969. Title of thesis: His research has focused on orthognathic surgery, bone graft and implants. In 1976 he defended his thesis at the University of Gothenburg ”Initial gingivitis in dogs”. Professor in oral surgery from 1988. His research is focused on developing a surgical technique in the maxillofacial region. New techniques for improving the results of surgery of dentofacial anomalies including craniofacial syndrom patients and severe facial disfiguration. Surgical technical development has aimed at performing multipiece maxillary osteotomies thus enabling adaptation of the size of the maxilla to the mandible and to the face. Long-term follow-up with meticulous measurements clinically and radiological. Clinical studies on the background of temporomandibular joint ankylosis. Congenital and aquired ankylosis of the joint can today with new techniques be successfully treated. Reconstruction of bone deficiency in patients before implant rehabilitation. Clinical studies by use of autologue bone graft, biomaterial and bone morphogenetic proteins.
Kaijser Bertil - The Sahlgrenska Academy, Klin bakteriologi & virologi, infektionssjukdomar
Kardasis Basil - Faculty of Fine, Applied and Performing Arts, School of Design and Crafts
Karlberg Ann-Therese – Faculty of Science, Department of Chemistry
Karlberg Ingvar - The Sahlgrenska Academy, Dept of Public Health and Community Medicine. Professor Ingvar Karlberg born in 1942 is a board certified surgeon working with surgical oncology and transplantation from 1970 to 1991. Subsequently he joined the National Board of Health and Welfare to refurbish the state support for quality and structural development in health care. In 1998 Karlberg became associate professor in Social Medicine at the University of Gothenburg, and in 1999 full professor at the Nordic School of Public Health. From 2004 Karlberg has returned to the University of Gothenburg in Health Services Research, also performing assessments for the region Västra Götaland. Karlberg has been supervisor for several research students, has been faculty opponent for a number of theses dissertations, and published numerous scientific papers, book chapters, reports and articles on metabolism, surgery, transplantation, and organisation, economy and assessment of health care in Sweden and abroad.
Karlsson B Göran - Faculty of Science, The Swedish NMR Centre
Karlsson Anna - The Sahlgrenska Academy, Dept of Rheumatology and Inflammation Research
Karlsson Håkan Professor Faculty of Arts, Dept of Historical Studies
Karlsson Jan Olof - The Sahlgrenska Academy, Avd för medicinsk kemi och cellbiologi
Karlsson Johan - IT Faculty, Computer Engineering
Karlsson Jón - The Sahlgrenska Academy, Dept of Orthopaedics
Karlsson Karl-Anders - The Sahlgrenska Academy, Avd för medicinsk kemi och cellbiologi (Emeritus)
Karlsson Stig - The Sahlgrenska Academy, Institute of Odontology, Section 2 - odontology
Karlsson-Eliasson Ingegärd - Faculty of Science
Title of dissertation: Urban Climate and Street Geometry
Ingegärd Karlsson-Eliasson - born in 1961 - started her doctoral studies in Physical Geography at the University of Gothenburg in 1985. She was a guest research fellow at Tokyo University in 1990, got her doctorate in 1993 and became a docent in 2000. She works in multi- and interdisciplinary projects in national and international networks within and outside the academy and performs field studies in cities in Europe, Asia and Africa. On 1 June 2007 she was apppointed Professor of Physical Geography at the Faculty of Science at the University of Gothenburg.
Kartus Jüri-Toomas - Sahlgrenska Acadmy, Institute of Clinical Sciences, Dept of Orthopaedics
Title of dissertation: Donor site morbidity after anterior cruciate ligament reconstruction Clinical, anatomical, radiographic and histological investigations with special reference to the use of central-third patellar tendon autografts
Jüri-Toomas Kartus was born in Stockholm in 1955. A degree of Master of Science in Medicine was conferred on him at the Karolinska Institute in 1983. He became a specialist in Orthopaedics and got his doctorate in 1999. In the year 2000 he did research on knee and shoulder ligament damage at the North Sydney Orthopaedic and Sports Medicine Center in Australia. In 2002 he became a Docent in Orthopaedics at the University of Gothenburg. He was appointed Adjunct Professor of Orthopaedics from 1 October 2007 at the Sahlgrenska Academy at the University of Gothenburg. The position is linked to a position as Chief Physician at the Orthopaedic Department of NU-health care.
Kjellander Roland – Faculty of Science, Department of Chemistry

Kjellgren Karin - The Sahlgrenska Academy at University of Gothenburg, Institute of Health and Care Sciences
Born: 1950
Thesis title: Antihypertensive Medication in Clinical Practice. Aspects of Patient Adherence to Treatment
Karin Kjellgren was born in Borås and was awarded her PhD on clinical pharmacology in 1998 by Linköping University. Her research covers adherence to treatment, communication and instruction in care and teaching programmes in the health and care sciences. Between 2002 and 2008 she was vice-dean for undergraduate programmes at the Sahlgrenska Academy. She became Docent in 2005 and since 9 December 2008 has held tenure as professor of health and care sciences in the Sahlgrenska Academy at the University of Gothenburg.
Kjellmer Göran - Faculty of Arts, Dept of Languages and Literatures (Emeritus)
Kjellmer Ingemar - The Sahlgrenska Academy, Dept of Paediatrics (Emeritus)
Klemedtsson Leif – Faculty of Science, Dept of Plant and Environmental Sciences LEIF KLEMEDTSSON – born in Strängnäs in 1953 – earned his BA at Uppsala university. He defended his thesis in 1986 at the Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences (Uppsala), Denitrification in Arable Soil with Special Emphasis on the Influence of Plant Roots. During the 1990s he worked on climate research at IVL in Gothenburg, and in 2000 he transferred his activities to Linköping University where he became senior lecturer. He works as a lecturer and researcher with specialist expertise within the field of emissions of greenhouse gases from terrestrial ecosystems. Appointed from 1 April 2006 as professor in plant ecology.
Knights David - The School of Business, Economics And Law
Komitov Lachezar – Faculty of Science, Dept of Physics
Krasse Bo - The Sahlgrenska Academy, Dept of Cariology (Emeritus)
Kristiansen Kristian – Faculty of Arts, Dept of Historical Studies
Kubanek Julia - The Faculty of Science - JULIA KUBANEK Born: 1969 Title of thesis: Chemical studies on the origin of secondary metabolites in selected marine invertebrates
Julia Kubanek was born in Morristown, New Jersey, USA, and graduated in biology and chemistry in 1991 at Queen's University, Canada. She has studied life in the seas around New Zealand, Australia, South-East Asia and Fiji and obtained her doctorate in 1998 at the University of British Columbia. She has been a postdoctoral fellow at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography and the University of North Carolina. In 2001 she joined the Georgia Institute of Technology, where she is now an associate professor of biology and chemistry. She is the author of around fifty articles on chemical ecology in plankton and coral reefs among other topics. At the University of Gothenburg she conducts research on how toxins and other biologically active molecules affect various species. She has been appointed Waerneska Visiting Professor at the Department of Marine Ecology.
Kuhn Hans-Georg - The Sahlgrenska Academy, Institute for Neuroscience and Physiology – HANS-GEORG KUHN - born in Duisburg, Germany in 1961 – received his PhD in Neuroscience in 1992 from the University of Düsseldorf for his thesis work - Expression and Regulation of Regeneration-Associated Genes in the Rat Nervous System. After his postdoctoral research at the Salk Institute in San Diego from 1993-1997 focusing on adult neural stem cells, he set up his own research group at the University of Regensburg, Germany. In 2003, he joined the Center for Brain Repair and Rehabilitation at Sahlgrenska Academy as associate professor and was appointed as Professor for Regenerative Neuroscience in March 2007. The emphasis of his research is on developing brain repair strategies using neural stem cells and endogenous plasticity mechanisms.
Kunda Gideon - The School of Business, Economics And Law -  GIDEON KUNDA Born: 1952 Gideon Kunda was born in Tel Aviv, Israel. He obtained his PhD in 1987 at the MIT Sloan School of Management, Massachusetts, USA. He is on the faculty of Tel Aviv University, and has served as Director of the Institute for Social Research from 1992 to 1995 and as Chairman of the Department of Labor Studies from 1996 to 1997 and from 2000 to 2002. He was a visiting professor at Stanford University, USA from 1997 to 1999. He has received several academic awards, including the Book of the Year Award of the American Sociological Association. Since 2009 he has been Visiting Professor of Management at the Graduate School.
Kvarnemo Charlotta – Faculty of Science, Dept of Zoology CHARLOTTA KVARNEMO, born in Skara in 1963, has a Master’s degree in Biology from Åbo Akademi University in Finland. She completed her doctorate at Uppsala University in 1996 with the thesis Sexual Selection and the Influence of Environmental Factors on Operational Sex Ratios in the Sand Goby. She was a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Western Australia, Perth, Australia, 1996-1998, and a visiting scholar at Jyväskylä University, Finland, 1999-2000. She became an associate professor in Zoology at Stockholm University in 2000, where she was a research fellow 2000-2005. Professor in Ecological Zoology, especially fish ecology, at University of Gothenburg from 1 December 2005.
Källersjö Mari - The Faculty of Science - MARI KÄLLERSJÖ Born: 1954 Title of thesis: Morphology, taxonomy and cladistics of Southern African Asteraceae (Anthemideae) Mari Källersjö was born in Stockholm and defended her doctoral thesis in systematic botany at Stockholm University in 1990. After obtaining her doctorate, she spent two years in the United States, working on molecular methodology, at the Smithsonian Institution among other places. In 1992 she returned to Sweden to start a DNA laboratory at the Swedish Museum of Natural History in Stockholm. In 2006–2008 she was head of the research department of the Swedish Museum of Natural History. Since October 2008 she has been director of the Gothenburg Botanical Garden. She was appointed Visiting Professor at the Department of Plant and Environmental Sciences in November 2009.
Kärrholm Johan - The Sahlgrenska Academy, Dept of Orthopaedics

Kärrqvist Christina – Faculty of Education, Unit for Subject Matter Education CHRISTINA KÄRRQVIST, in Gothenburg in 1941, worked as a teacher at Sjumilaskolan in Gothenburg, became a licentiate in physics in 1971 and completed her doctorate at the University of Gothenburg in 1985 in pedagogics with the thesis Kunskapsutveckling genom experimentcentrerade dialoger i ellära (Learning development through experiment-centred dialogue in electricity and electronics). She became an associate professor at the University of Gothenburg in 1999. Professor of Subject Didactics with specialisation in science subjects, especially physics, at University og Gothenburg from 1 December 2005.