Professors updated from 2007 - 2010

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

A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z Å Ä Ö

Palm Lennart – Faculty of Arts, Dept of Historical Studies

Palmer Brian – Faculty of Arts, Dept of Religious Studies and Theology
Title of dissertation: Wolves at the Door: Existential Solidarity in a Globalizing Sweden
Brian Palmer was born in New York in 1964. He got his doctorate in 2000 at Harvard University where he was a university lecturer between 2000 and 2004. Since 2005 he has worked at Uppsala University. He is an active debater who has, amongst other things, taken part in the 'Sommar' radio programme. On 15 August 2007, he was appointed Guest Professor in Memory of Torgny Segerstedt at the Faculty of Arts at the University of Gothenburg.

Palmerus Kerstin - Faculty of Social Science, Dept of Psychology
Title of dissertation: Psychological aspects of infants with low rate of weight gain
Kerstin Palmérus was born in Gothenburg in 1945. A degree of Bachelor was conferred on her at the University of Gothenburg in 1968, a degree of Master of Science in Psychology in 1981, and she got her doctorate in 1982. Since 1970 she has worked as a lecturer and researcher and she became a Docent in Psychology in 1991. Her research has primarily dealt with aspects of upbringing in different cultures. On 1 June 2007 she was appointed Professor of Psychology at the Faculty of Social Science at the University of Gothenburg.

Palmquist Gunno - Faculty of Fine, Applied and Performing Arts - Academy of Music and Drama
Gunno Palmquist was born in Norra Hestra in 1948. Between 1969 and 1973 he studied at the Academy of Music and Drama in Gothenburg where he became a university lecturer in Choral Music and Ensemble Conducting. He has been a choirmaster for, among other things, the Gothenburg Symphony Chorus and the Gösta Ohlin Vocal Ensemble. Gunno Palmquist is also leader of the Wermlands Ensemble and has worked as a conductor for the present Gageego ensemble. On 1 March 2007 he was appointed Professor of Choir and Choir Conducting at the Faculty of Fine, Applied and Performing Arts at the University of Gothenburg.
Pang Ming Fai - The Faculty of Education - MING FAI PANG Born: 1964 Thesis: Making learning possible: The use of variation in the teaching of school economics Ming Fai Pang was born in Hong Kong and obtained his PhD in 2002 at the University of Hong Kong. He was coordinator of Special Interest Group Phenomenography and Variation Theory of European Association for Research on Learning and Instruction (EARLI) from 2003 to 2007. He is also one of the editors of the Editors of the Educational Research Review, an official EARLI journal. From 1998 to 2006 he was Chairman of the Hong Kong Association for Economics Education. Since 2009 he has been a visiting professor at the Learning and Teaching Unit at the Department of Education.
Park Sang Chul Visiting professor School of Business, Economics, and Law, Graduate School, GS

Parker Adrian - Faculty of Social Science, Dept of Psychology 
Title of dissertation: Extrasensory perception (ESP) and altered states of consciousness: Experimenter effects
Adrian Parker was born in Ravensworth, England in 1947 and a degree of Master of Science in Psychology was conferred on him at Edinburgh University and Tavistock Clinic in London. He worked at Cambridge University between 1974 and 1976 and got his doctorate in 1977 at Edinburgh University. His thesis concerns experimenter effects in parapsychology and altered states of consciousness. He became a Docent in Psychology at the University of Gothenburg in 1992. On 1 July 2007 he was appointed Professor of Psychology at the Faculty of Social Science at the University of Gothenburg.
Pascher Irmin - The Sahlgrenska Academy, Avd för medicinsk kemi och cellbiologi (Emeritus)
Patriksson Göran – Faculty of Education, Unit for Individual, Culture and Society Michael Patriksson - born in Vreta kloster 1964 - studied mathematics at Linköping university, and in 1993 defended his PhD thesis "Nonlinear programming and variational inequalities: A unified approach" there. He was a postdoc at the mathematics departments of the University of York (1993-94, host Michael J. Smith) and at the University of Washington in Seattle (1994-95, host R. Tyrrell Rockafellar). Since 1997 employed by Chalmers, initially as a docent, since 2004 full professor of applied mathematics. Michael is interested in research subjects like IMRT inverse planning in cancer research, topology optimization in structural mechanics, robust optimization, maintenance optimization in industry, traffic research, and optimization together with simulation. Since 2002 Michael is employed as a scientific advisor at the Fraunhofer-Chalmers Center for Industrial Mathematics in Gothenburg. Since 2006 he is the deputy leader of the SSF-sponsored Gothenburg Mathematical Modelling Center. He has published four books and around 70 papers. In 2004 he was awarded the The Frisinger Stipend.
Patriksson Michael – Faculty of Science, Matematics
Pavia Henrik - Faculty of Science, Dept of Marine Ecology
Born: 1964
Thesis: Patterns, causes and consequences of variation in the phlorotannin content of the brown alga Ascophyllum nodosum
Henrik Pavia was born in Gothenburg. After spending a few years as a sailing instructor and dockyard hand, he began to study economics and biology at the University of Gothenburg. He was awarded a PhD in marine botany in 1999 for a thesis on chemical defences in brown algae and in 2004 he was appointed reader in marine ecology. In 2008 he was the first recipient of the faculty of natural sciences’ newly established research award for the development of new research focuses at the University of Gothenburg: marine chemical ecology. Since 15 September 2008 he has been professor of marine ecology, in particular chemical ecology, in the Faculty of Science at the University of Gothenburg.
Peacock Elizabeth Ellen - Faculty of Science, Conservation
Pedersen Karsten – Faculty of Science, Dept of Cell and Molecular Biology
Pekny Milos - The Sahlgrenska Academy, Dept of Clinical Neurosciences

Pendrill Ann-Marie – Faculty of Science, Dept of Physics
Persson Bengt - Faculty of Education BENGT PERSSON – born in Borås in 1949 – qualified as an intermediate-level teacher in Jönköping in 1975. He defended his thesis in 1998, Den motsägelsefulla specialpedagogiken (Inconsistencies in special needs education) at the University of Gothenburg and became senior lecturer in 2002. 2002–2005 he was visiting professor in special needs education at Växjö university and 2004–2005 professor II in inclusive education at the University of Stavanger, Norway. Appointed from 1 March 2006 as professor in special needs education.
Persson Ingmar – Faculty of Arts, Dept of Philosophy, Linguistics and Theory of Science
Persson Lennart K – Faculty of Arts, Dept of Historical Studies
Persson Ulf – Faculty of Science, Matematics
Persson Waye Kerstin - Sahlgrenska Academy at University of Gothenburg, Institute of Medicine, Dept of Public Health and Community Medicine - KERSTIN PERSSON WAYE
Title of thesis: On the effects of environmental low frequency noise Kerstin Persson Waye was born in Hultafors in 1959 and graduated in Public Health and Environmental Protection at Umeå University in 1982. She was awarded a PhD in Environmental Medicine at the University of Gothenburg in 1995. In 2002 she was appointed senior lecturer at the Department of Acoustics at Aalborg University in Denmark, before accepting a similar post at the Sahlgrenska Academy the following year. She was appointed reader in Environmental Medicine in 2006. In May 2009 she was appointed Professor of Environmental Medicine, with a focus on noise research, at the Institute of Medicine, at the Department of Public Health and Community Medicine.
Petersen Bent - The School of Business, Economics And Law - BENT PETERSEN Born: 1954 Thesis: Explaining Cost-effective Export Market Penetration via Foreign Intermediaries –with Special Emphasis on the Hold-up Problem
Bent Petersen was born in Frederiksberg, Denmark and is Professor of International Business at the Center for Strategic Management and Globalization at the Copenhagen Business School (CBS). He obtained his PhD in 1996. He has also worked at the Carlsberg Research Center. He has published articles in several leading journals. He is also a member of the Academy of International Business and the European International Business Academy and is a reviewer for a number of journals. He has also been a visiting researcher at HEC, France and the University of Queensland, Australia and has taught in Norway, Sweden, Austria, Vietnam and Australia. Since February he has been Director of the Center for Strategic Management and Globalization at the Copenhagen Business School and since 2009 has been Visiting Professor of International Business at the Graduate School.
Peterson Abby - Faculty of Social Science, Dept of Sociology
Peterson Lars - The Sahlgrenska Academy, Dept of Orthopaedics
Petrusson Ulf - The School of Business, Economics, and Law, Dept of Law ULF PETRUSSON, born in Gothenburg in 1964, became a Bachelor of Law at the University of Gothenburg in 1988. Since 1987 he has had a post in the Department of Law at the School of Business, Economics and Law at the University of Gothenburg. For some years he was also employed as a lawyer at Göteborgs Patentbyrå AB (Göteborg Patent Office). He completed his doctorate in 1999 with the thesis Patent och industriell omvandling – En studie av dynamiken mellan rättsliga och ekonomiska idésystem (Patent and industrial transformation: a study of the dynamics between judicial and economic ideologies). Since 1999 he has also been director of the Center for Intellectual Property, CIP, a partnership between Göteborg University and Chalmers University of Technology. In 2001 he received the pedagogical team award at the University of Gothenburg. He became an associate professor in jurisprudence in 2003. Professor of Jurisprudence at the University of Gothenburg from 1 January 2006.
Pettersson Jan – Faculty of Science, Department of Chemistry
Petzell Malin - Faculty of Arts, Dept of Oriental and African Languages
Pierre Jon - Faculty of Social Science, Dept of Political Science
Pihl Baden Susanne - Faculty of Science, Kristineberg Marine Research Station
Pihl Leif - Faculty of Science, Dept of marine ecology
LEIF PIHL - born in Gothenburgin 1951. He studied oceanography, chemistry and biology and was employed as research assistant at the Zoology department in 1977. His research has focused on marine coastal ecosystems. In 1985 he defended his thesis ”Mobile epibenthic population dynamics, production, food selection and consumption on shallow marine soft bottoms” Professor in marine fish ecology from December 2000. - Research focuses on marine coastal ecosystem, especially on their importance for fish. Coastal habitats are of specific importance during different life stages of fish and thereby provide a crucial support to major fisheries. Surveys on different scales are used in combination with field and laboratory experiments to study the assemblage of littoral fish and their interaction in the food web. Distribution of “essential fish habitats”, fish habitat utilization, nursery function and recruitment mechanisms are investigated. Further, effects of environmental stressors (algal blooms, habitat degradation, hypoxia) are investigated with habitat quality and quantity setting the limits for fish production. Improved understanding of functional links between coastal habitats and fisheries are used to evaluate the provision of ecosystem services, and to estimate economic value of ecosystem services.
Pilhammar Andersson Ewa - The Sahlgrenska Academy, Institute of Health and Care Sciences
Pilon Marc Professor Faculty of Science, Dept of Cell and Molecular Biology
Platen Edgar – Faculty of Arts, Dept of Languages and Literatures
Pleijel Fredrik - Faculty of Science, Tjärnö Marine Biological Laboratory
Pleijel Håkan – Faculty of Science, Dept of Plant and Environmental Sciences HÅKAN PLEIJEL, born in Trollhättan in 1958, has a B.Sc. in Biology from the University of Gothenburg. He completed his doctorate in 1994 with a thesis on Ozone Impact on Swedish Cereals. He was made an associate professor at the Department of Zoology, Göteborg University, in 1998. His research deals with air pollution, especially ozones, and their distribution in the landscape, their deposition and effect on plant life. Appointed to be Professor of Applied Environmental Science at the University of Gothenburg from 1 March 2005.
Polesie Thomas - The School of Business, Economics, and Law, Dept of Business Administration
Pontén Johan - Sahlgrenska Academy at University of Gothenburg, Institute of Clinical Sciences, Dept of Anaesthesiology and Intensive Care - JOHAN PONTÉN
Title of thesis: Preoperative withdrawal versus maintenance of long-term beta-adrenoceptor blockade
Johan Pontén was born in Stockholm in 1948 and qualified as a doctor with a licentiate degree at the University of Gothenburg in 1973. He qualified as a specialist in anaesthesia and intensive care in 1978 and completed his doctoral thesis in clinical medicine at Sahlgrenska Hospital. He was appointed reader in 1984, and since the early nineties he has held a combined post as senior lecturer at the University of Gothenburg and consultant physician in thoracic anaesthesia. In May 2009 he was appointed Professor of Anaesthesiology at the Institute of Clinical Sciences, in the Department of Anaesthesiology and Intensive Care.
Pramling Samuelsson Ingrid – Faculty of Education, Childhood Studies Unit
Prevot Andre - Faculty of Science, Department of Chemistry
Påhlsson Robert - The School of Business, Economics, and Law, Dept of Law