Honorary Doctors

2025

Yu Liu, climate scientist and researcher at the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS)

Ricardo Baeza-Yates, computer science researcher. 

2024

Majdi Hochlaf, Professor, Gustave Eiffel University

Cynthia Riginos, Professor, University of Queensland

2022-2023

Barry Costa Pierce, Professor Emeritus, University of New England, USA.

Jeanine Olsen, Professor, University of Groningen, Netherlands

Svante Hultengren, Conservation biologist, Sweden.

2020

TRUJILLO CABRERA, Remigio 
Professor, Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM) 

FLINCK, Maria
garden historian, ethnologist and author.

2019

ELAND, John H.D.
Professor, Oxford University, United Kingdom

2018

LIDMAR-BERGSTRÖM, Karna
Professor emerita, Stockholm University

2017

EKDAHL, Annika
Textile artist

YAO, Tandong
Professor and director, Institute of Tibetan Plateau Research at the Chinese Academy of Sciences

2016

BUTLIN, Roger
Professor, University of Sheffield, United Kingdom.

ODEGAARD, Nancy
Professor, Drachman Institute, University of Arizona, USA.

2015

ZHISHENG, An
Professor,Institute of Earth Environment, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shaanxi Province, China.

THIEDE, Jörn
Professor, Helmholtz-Center for Ocean Research GEOMAR, Kiel, Germany.

2014

WENBLAD, Axel
Chairman of the board of the Swedish World Wide Fund for Nature

2013

ANDERSEN, Tom
Professor, University of Oslo, Norway.

2012

MASON, Randall F.
Associate Professor, University of Pennsylvania, USA.

POWER, Deborah M.
Professor, Universidade do Algarve, Portugal.

2011

BOONE, Charles M.
Professor, University of Toronto, Canada.

2010

FRIZELL, Bengt
Naturvårdsintendent, Länstyrelsen i Västra Götaland.

HEYWOOD, Karen
Professor, University of East Anglia, United Kingdom.

2000

BÖDDI, Béla (b. 1950)
Professor, Eötvös Lorand University, Hungary.

FARRELL, Anthony P. (b. 1952)
Professor, Simon Fraser University, Canada.

JENNINGS, S. Gerard (b. 1943)
Professor, University of Galway, Ireland.

TOENNIES, Jan Peter (b. 1930)
Professor, Max Planck Institut fuer Strömungsforschung.

2001

ANDERSSON, Bengt (b. 1940)
Teacher, Flatåsskolan, Göteborg.

LILIENBERG, Per (1931-2002)
Principal, Gerleborgsskolan, Dingle.

MADDEN, Dean (b. 1960)
University of Reading, England.

SCHOLLAR, John (b. 1950)
University of Reading, England.

2002

ALLER, Robert (b. 1950)
Professor, Marine Sciences Research Center, USA.

BONAMI, Aline (b. 1944)
Professor, Université d'Orléans, France.

ORLOV, Nikolai (b. 1952)
Zoological institute of RAS, Russia.

RYVARDEN, Leif (b. 1935)
Professor, University of Oslo, Norway.

2003

FANKLIN, Craig (b. 1961)
Professor, University of Queensland, Australien.

GRIGG, Gordon (b. 1942)
Professor, University of Queensland, Australien.

HANSSON, Hans G. (b. 1945)
Intendent, Tjärnö marinbiologiska laboratorium.

KIELLAND-BRANDT, Morten C. (b. 1944)
Professor, Carlsberg Laboratory, Denmark.

2004

JOHANSSON, Bengt O. H. (b. 1934)
Visiting professor, Department of Conservation, University of Gothenburg.

LINDÉN, Lena M. (b. 1949)
CEO, Nordens Ark.

2005

STENGEL, Werner (b. 1936)
Rollercoaster constructor.

2006

DAVISON, Bill (b. 1952)
Professor, University of Canterbury, Nya Zeeland.

GRIMMOND, Sue (b. 1959)
Professor, King's College, England.

2007

COX, David (b. 1924)
Nuffield College, England.

FU, Congbin (b. 1939)
Professor, Institute of Atmospheric Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China.

MUNAWAR, Mohiuddin (b. 1940)
Great Lakes Laboratory of Fishery and Aquatic Sciences, Canada.

2008

ANDERSSON, Mats
The Swedish Maritime Administration (Sjöfartsverket).

PEGG, David (b. 1940)
Professor emeritus, University of Tennessee, USA.

STEGEMAN, John J.
Professor, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute, USA.

VON STORCH, Hans
Professor, University of Hamburg, Germany.

UNDERWOOD, Anthony
Professor, University of Sydney, Australia.

2009

FUKORO, Hiroyoshi (b. 1952)
Senior Managing Director, Nissan Chemical Industries.

KLIPP, Edda (b. 1965) 
Professor, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Germany.

1990

ERIKSSON, Ture (b. 1926)

LARSEN, Helge (1922-2005)

1991

BORDWELL, Frederick (b. 1916)

GRAY, Harry B. (b. 1935)

HIEU, Nguyen van (b. 1938)

HUBENDICK, Bengt (b. 1916)

WHITFIELD, Michael (b. 1940)

1992

AFZELIUS, Lars (1936-2001)

NITZELIUS, Tor (1914-1999)

1993

AGUIRRE, Gustavo (b. 1943)

FARBER, B. Dedora (b. 1938)

1994

CORBETT, Keith F. (b. 1941)

JONES, E. Peter (b. 1935)

RÜDIGER, Wolfhart (b. 1933)

1995

GAUDRY, Garth I. (b. 1941)

GIBBINS, Ian L. (b. 1954)

MORRIS, Judy L. (b. 1952)

SAMUELSSON, Lennart (b. 1932-1996)

1996

DIAZ, J. Robert (b. 1946)

PEARSON, Tomas (b. 1938)

1997

FRANCKE, Wittko (b. 1940)

GUND, Gordon (b. 1939)

HIRANO, Tetsuya (b. 1937)

MATTHIAS, Eckart (b. 1930)

1998

SWOFFORD, David L. (b. 1954)

WINGFIELD, John (b. 1948)

1999

JOHNSON, Ken (b. 1940)

KJELLÉN, Bo (b. 1933)

MAUCERI, Giancarlo (b. 1947)

1982

BOLIS, Liana (f. 1926)

LARSON, Sten (1908-1999)

1983

PRANCE, Ghillean (f. 1937)

1984

FAIRBRIDGE, Rhodes (1914-2006)

ROTHSCHILD, Miriam (1908-2005)

ÖSTLUND, Göte (f. 1923)

1985

SALAM, Abdus (1926-1996)

STRID, Lars (1925-1994)

WALLER, Ivar (1898-1991)

1986

GROVE, David J. (f. 1940)

KLEMM, Alfred (f.1913)

MONIN, A.S. (1921-2007)

1987

MARCUS, Rudolph A. (f. 1923)

RAVEN, Peter H. (f. 1936)

1988

SUNDELL, Lars-Erik (1925-1993)

1989

EISNER, Thomas (f. 1929)

HJORTSTAM, Kurt (f. 1933)

KELLY, Hugh P. (1931-1992)

MEINWALD, Jerrold (f. 1927)

1972

EDSALL, John T. (1902-2002)

1973

ALIMARIN, Ivan Pavlovich (1903-1989)

1974

EDBERG, Rolf (1912-1997)

FORNANDER, Sven (1913-2005)

FRENCH, C. Stacy (1907-1995)

1975

STEEMANN NIELSEN, Einer (1907-1989)

1978

DENTON, Eric J. (1923-2007)

KOREVAAR, Jacob (f. 1923)

Jenny Birkestad, 2024 
Motivation:

"Jenny Birkestad, researcher in media, communication, and informatics, has for many years been a national leader in the digitalization of the public sector. Her previous roles include being a director at the Swedish Agency for Public Management with a special responsibility for modernization and chairing the state's e-forum, responsible for digitalization in the City of Solna, head of digitalization at the Swedish Association of Local Authorities and Regions (SALAR), as well as an expert in the Government's Digitalization Commission and a member of the government's digitalization council. Now, Jenny is the head of business area at Adda – a company within SALAR where she, among other things, is responsible for learning and competence development within the digitalization of welfare. Since the 1990s, she has continuously worked to strengthen the knowledge base and speed of digital transformation within the public sector.

Jenny Birkestad has significantly contributed to the emergence of digitalization as a strong research environment at the Department of Applied Information Technology. She has added networks, thereby enabling the department to establish a channel to important forums for active collaboration between the department's research and the practices of municipalities and regions. Jenny's active involvement has, among other things, contributed to the establishment of the Research Consortium for Digital Governance; a research school for public digitalization as well as commissioned research and methods for measuring maturity in the public sector; collaboration activities, guest lectures, and other activities.

Jenny will continue to be an important collaboration partner for the Department of Applied IT and further contribute to the department's development in the field of digitalization and the public sector.”

Terry Regier, 2023

Professor Terry Regier is appointed honorary doctor at the IT Faculty

Motivation:
"Terry Regier is one of the world’s leading cognitive scientists and a professor of Linguistics and Cognitive Science at the University of California, Berkeley. He is known for his research on language acquisition, categorization, and semantics, particularly on the relationship between language and thought. Regier's work involves using experimental and computational methods to understand how humans categorize objects and concepts, and how they use language to communicate these categorizations. He has published numerous articles and books, including The Human Semantic Potential: Spatial Language and Constrained Connectionism (1996).

Beginning in around 2018, his research has directly inspired and led to collaborations with researchers in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering (CSE), leading to a series of publications presented at CogSci, the Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society.  The research initiated with him lies at the boundary of AI and Cognitive Science and has laid the foundations for a new research direction at CSE in neuro-symbolic AI initiated by Moa Johansson and Devdatt Dubhashi. This research has recently attracted funding from VR and WASP, with plans for collaboration and exchange visits with Terry Regier."

Kristina Höök, 2022

Kristina Höök, professor of interaction design at the Royal Institute of Technology, KTH, got her insignia as a honorary doctor at the IT Faculty, University of Gothenburg, for the year 2022.

Professor Kristina Höök at KTH is an internationally recognized researcher who has received many national and international grants and awards. She is known for her work with social navigation and more recently for having developed important knowledge in design theory, including by starting from the body in design work. Kristina's work in putting Sweden on the map in human-computer interaction strengthens University of Gothenburg's development in the field.

Moshe Y. Vardi, 2020

Nancy Baym, 2019

Jane Cleland-Huang, 2018

Erik Stolterman, 2017

Vladimir Voevodsky, 2016

Gerhard Fischer, 2015

Kurt Mehlhorn, 2014

Sirkka Jarvenpaa, 2012

Christine Paulin-Mohring, 2011