Biografi

Peter Nilsson is a Full Professor in Electronic Design (elektronikkonstruktion). He was born in Borlänge in Sweden in 1958, but has grown up in Skåne in the southern of Sweden. He reached the Master of Science degree in Electrical Engineering at Lund Institute of Technology, Lund University in February 1988. In May 1992, he reached the degree Licentiate of Engineering and in May 1996 he achieved the degree Doctor of Philosophy in engineering both at Lund University. After the Ph.D. degree he began as an Assistant Professor at Department of Applied Electronics (now Department of Electrical and Information Technology), Lund University, Sweden. In November 1997 he got an Associate Professor position at the same department and in December 2003, the degree “Docent” was awarded. In July 2008, he became a Full Professor. Peter was the National Program Manager for Socware Research & Education, a System-on-Chip program for research and Master’s educations, 2000-05. Since 1996 Peter has supervised 4 Ph.D. students to the doctoral degree, one to licentiate degree, and has 4 on the way. He has supervised and/or examined around 100 Master’s thesis students, both national and international. Peter has authored or co-authored 80 peer-reviewed journal and conference papers. He was also an Associate Editor for IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems I, 2004-05, and is a member of the VLSI Systems and Applications Technical Committee in IEEE Circuits and Systems Society. Peter's main interest is in the field of implementation of digital circuits.