Gerhard Kristensson, Professor emeritus

Gerhard Kristensson received his B.S. degree in mathematics and physics in 1973, and the Ph.D. degree in theoretical physics in 1979, both from the University of Göteborg, Sweden. In 1983 he was appointed Docent in theoretical physics at the University of Göteborg.

During 1977-1984 he held a research position sponsored by the National Swedish Board for Technical Development (STU) and he was Lecturer at the Institute of Theoretical Physics, Göteborg from 1980-1984. In 1984-1986 he was a Visiting Scientist at the Applied Mathematical Sciences group, Ames Laboratory, Iowa State University. He held a Docent position at the Department of Electromagnetic Theory, Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm during 1986-1989, and in 1989 he was appointed the Chair of Electromagnetic Theory at Lund Institute of Technology, Sweden. He retired from his chair December 31, 2014, and he is now Professor Emeritus at Lund University.

In 1992, 1997 and 2007 he was a Visiting Erskine Fellow at the Department of Mathematics, University of Canterbury, Christchurch, New Zealand. In fall 2015 he was a visiting scientist at the Department of Mathematics, Colorado State University, CO, USA.

Gerhard Kristensson has served as a member of the Board of Editors of Wave Motion, the Editorial Board and the International Advisory Panel of Inverse Problems, and the Review Board of Journal of Electromagnetic Waves and Applications and Progress in Electromagnetic Research.

He is a Fellow of the Institute of Physics, and during 1991-2014 he served as a board member of the Swedish National committee of Radio Science (SNRV). From 1994-2005, he was the chairman of Commission B of SNRV and Official Member of URSI, Commission B for Sweden. He was the chairman of SNRV during 2006-2014, and at the same time he was the official representative for Sweden in the International Union of Radio Science (URSI).

Kristensson has a general interest in electromagnetic scattering problems (incl. inverse scattering problems) and wave propagation in inhomogeneous media. The propagation of transient electromagnetic waves in complex media, such as dispersive anisotropic and bi-isotropic media, are stressed. High frequency scattering methods, asymptotic expansions, optical fibers, antenna problems, and mixture formulas are also of interest, as well as radome design problems and homogenization of complex materials.

He has written five books and he is the author of numerous journal and conference publications.