Organisation & governance

On this page you find more information about:

• Departmental board
• Management
• Health and safety representative
• Working group for gender equality, equal opportunities and diversity
• Research council

Departmental board

The departmental board is the department’s highest decision-making body. The budget, activities plan, appointment of examiners, course syllabi and required reading lists are some of the matters decided upon by the board. In addition, the board takes decisions on guidelines, action plans and policies.

Members for the period from 1 July 2022 to 30 June 2025:

Chair

Kristina Jönsson
Head of department

Secretary of the board

Helen Fogelin

Teaching staff

Full members:

• julie [dot] hassing_nielsen [at] svet [dot] lu [dot] se (Julie Hassing-Nielsen)
• stina [dot] melander [at] svet [dot] lu [dot] se (Stina Melander)
• jakob [dot] skovgaard [at] svet [dot] lu [dot] se (Jakob Skovgaard)
• anders [dot] uhlin [at] svet [dot] lu [dot] se (Anders Uhlin)

Substitute members:

• hanna [dot] back [at] svet [dot] lu [dot] se (Hanna Bäck)
• martin [dot] hall [at] svet [dot] lu [dot] se (Martin Hall)
• asa [dot] knaggard [at] svet [dot] lu [dot] se (Åsa Knaggård)
• johannes [dot] stripple [at] svet [dot] lu [dot] se (Johannes Stripple)

Other staff

Full member:

kristina [dot] grondahl_nilsson [at] svet [dot] lu [dot] se (Kristina Gröndahl Nilsson)

Substitute member:

mats [dot] janer [at] svet [dot] lu [dot] se (Mats Janér)

Doctoral students

Full member:

lena [dot] kempermann [at] svet [dot] lu [dot] se (Lena Kempermann)

Substitute member:

malte [dot] breding [at] svet [dot] lu [dot] se (Malte Breiding Hansen)

Students’ union

Full member:

Emma Drevnor
Sam Löfström

Substitute member:

Elliot Borgstrand 

Contact: instrep [dot] svet [at] samvetet [dot] lu [dot] se (instrep[dot]svet[at]samvetet[dot]lu[dot]se)

Management

Head of department
Kristina Jönsson
Available by appointment, room 409
E-mail: kristina [dot] jonsson [at] svet [dot] lu [dot] se (kristina[dot]jonsson[at]svet[dot]lu[dot]se)
Telephone: +46 46 222 89 43

Deputy head of department
Assistant head of department for undergraduate and master's education
Director of first and second cycle studies
Rikard Bengtsson
Available by appointment, room 412
E-mail: rikard [dot] bengtsson [at] svet [dot] lu [dot] se (rikard[dot]bengtsson[at]svet[dot]lu[dot]se)
Telephone: +46 46-222 89 30

Assistant head of department for doctoral studies 
Director of doctoral studies
Sara Kalm
Telephone: +46 46 222 01 58
E-mail: sara [dot] kalm [at] svet [dot] lu [dot] se (sara[dot]kalm[at]svet[dot]lu[dot]se)

Responsible for research coordination
Robert Klemmensen
Telephone: +45 4022 7614
E-mail: robert [dot] klemmensen [at] svet [dot] lu [dot] se (robert[dot]klemmensen[at]svet[dot]lu[dot]se)

Health and safety representatives

Our health and safety representatives for 2024-2026 are Åsa Knaggård and Kristina Gröndahl Nilsson. They represent the employees.

Working group for gender equality, equal opportunities and diversity

This is an advisory and preparatory body. It consists of representatives of teaching staff, technical/administrative staff, research students and other students. 

Our work on gender equality

Research committee

The research committee is an advisory and preparatory body, whose main duty is to support the department’s researchers in their work on applying for external research grants.

Members

During 2024-2027

• Robert Klemmensen (Chair)
• Annika Björkdahl
• Markus Holdo
• Sara Kalm
• Catarina Kinnvall
• Ian Manners
• Jonathan Polk
• TBD (Doctoral student representative)

Learn more on our research committee’s work