Kersti Hermansson
{{short description|Professor for Inorganic Chemistry}}
Kersti Hermansson (born in 1951) is a Professor for Inorganic Chemistry at Uppsala University.{{Cite web|last=|first=|date=|title=CV Hermansson|url=http://www.teoroo.kemi.uu.se/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/K.Hermansson.pdf|archive-url=|archive-date=|access-date=2020-08-07|website=}}{{Dead link|date=May 2025 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}
Education and professional career
She did her PhD on "The Electron Distribution in the Bound Water Molecule" in 1984. From 1984 to 1986, she had a postdoctoral fellowship from the Swedish Research Council with Dr. E. Clementi at IBM-Kingston, USA. From 1986–1988, she was a Högskolelektor in Inorganic Chemistry at Uppsala University. In 1988, she was a docent of Inorganic Chemistry at Uppsala University. In 1996, she was a Biträdande professor. Since 2000, she is a professor of Inorganic Chemistry at Uppsala University. During this time (2008-2013), she was a part-time guest professor at KTH Stockholm.
Research
Her research focuses on condensed-matter chemistry including the investigation of chemical bonding and development of quantum chemical methods.{{Cite web|title=Research projects {{!}} Teoroo – Theoretical inorganic chemistry group|url=http://www.teoroo.kemi.uu.se/research/|access-date=2020-08-07|language=en-US|archive-date=2020-07-24|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200724061206/http://www.teoroo.kemi.uu.se/research/|url-status=dead}}
Awards
She received several prizes for her research:
- "Letterstedska priset" from the Swedish Royal Academy of Sciences (KVA) (1987)
- "Oskarspriset" from Uppsala University (1988)
- "Norblad-Ekstrand" medal in gold from the Swedish Chemical Society (2003)
- Member of Kungl. Vetenskapssamhället (Academia regia scientiarum Upsaliensis, KVSU), Uppsala (since 1988)
- Member of Royal Society of Science (since 2002)
- Member of Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences (since 2007){{Cite web|last=|first=|date=|title=Royal Swedish Academy of Science|url=https://www.kva.se/en/om-oss/kontakt/kersti-hermansson|archive-url=|archive-date=|access-date=|website=}}{{Dead link|date=May 2023 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}
- Adjunct professor at the Kasetsart University, Bangkok (2005)
- Honorary guest professor at the Department of Ion Physics and Applied Physics, Innsbruck University (since June 2009)
References
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