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Biography:

Professor Magnus Berggren is one of the pioneers of the Organic Bioelectronics and Electronic Plants research areas and currently he is the Acting Director of the Strategic Research Area (SFO) of Advanced Functional Materials (AFM) at Linköping University (LiU). He received his MSc in Physics in 1991 and PhD in Applied Physics in 1996, from Linköping University.

He then joined Bell Laboratories in Murray Hill, NJ in USA, for a one-year post doc period focusing on the development of organic lasers and novel optical resonator structures. Then he teamed up with Opticom ASA from Norway, and former colleagues of Linköping University to establish the company, Thin Film Electronics AB, in 1997.

From 1997 to 1999 he served Thin Film as its founding Managing Director and initiated the development of printed electronic memories based on ferroelectric polymers. Later, he returned to Linköping University and joined Acreo Swedish ICT as a part time Manager. In 1999, he initiated the research and development of paper electronics, partially supported by several papers- and packaging companies. He is a Professor in Organic Electronics at Linköping University and the Director of the Laboratory of Organic Electronics (LOE) since 2002.

Professor Magnus Berggren was elected member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences In 2012 and received the Marcus Wallenberg Price in 2014. 
 
His research interests cover utilising organic electronics in novel applications such as in printed paper electronics and in biology applications.