Kurt Sillén, Vice Chairman, Stockholm Flying Club

Kurt has been flying small planes for over 25 years. He holds a Swedish Private Pilot License with Instrument Rating and a Multiengine License from USA. He has been a member of the airplane pool, a non profit organisation that works as a car pool, at Stockholm Flyging Club, since 1986. He has flown in many parts of the world including Europe, USA, the Caribbean and Australia.

Mats Leksell, Senior Research Engineer, KTH

Mats Leksell is a Senior Research Engineer at Electrical Energy Conversion, KTH. His main interest is electrical drives for transportation and automation. In recent years, he has focused on hybrid vehicle drives, including converters, energy storage and power supply. Mats has a large network with both vehicle and power system industry. He is a member of IEEE and holds a Licentiate of Technology degree.

Jonas Eliasson, Professor, KTH

Dr. Jonas Eliasson is Professor of Transport Systems Analysis at the Royal Institute of Technology (KTH) and director of the Centre for Transport Studies at KTH.

Prof. Eliasson directed the design of the Stockholm congestion charging system, and chaired the Expert Evaluation Committee for the Stockholm trial. He chaired the committee responsible for transport forecasts and appraisal of the National Transport Investment Plan, and is a frequent advisor to the Swedish Government in transport policy issues.

Travellers of tomorrow

A group of KTH students,Emilia Stjärnström Nilsson, Elin Ljungqvist, Björn Granstedt, Elin Olofsson & Anna Hellman, have interviewed school children aged 7-15 to find out how they want to travel in the future, and what that means for us that are laying the foundation for their future, today

Gunnar Björk, Professor, KTH

Prof. Gunnar Björk is presently the group leader of the Quantum Optics group at the department of Electronics. He teaches Microwave engineering and Quantum Optics. He has held positions as assistant professor and associate professor at the Department of Microwave Engineering and the Department of Electronics at KTH, and was employed as a research associate at Ginzton Laboratory, Stanford University. He has also worked as a visiting scientist at NTT Basic Research Laboratories in Tokyo, Japan.

Gunnar Björk is a member of the Optical Society of America, The European Optical Society, The European Physical Society and the national optical and physical societies.

Pär Blomkvist, Associate Professor, KTH

Pär Blomkvist is a PhD, Historian of Technology, Associate professor and is active at The Department of Industrial Economics and Management at KTH. Pär does his research in the fields of industrial dynamics and Management Of Innovation. His main interest is in Large Technical Systems, evolutionary theories on technical change and institutional factors influencing the process of industrial dynamics.

Christina Lampe-Önnerud, PhD, Entrepreneur and Woman of the Year 2011

Christina Lampe-Önnerud, is a CEO, PhD inorganic chemist, management consultant, and proven entrepreneur. Most recently Ms. Lampe-Onnerud built Boston-Power Inc., one of the world’s leading battery manufacturers. With close to 80 patents awarded in energy storage power solutions, Christina Lampe-Önnerud has earned considerable international recognition and received a wide range of awards. Most recently she was elected a lifetime member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Engineering Sciences, IVA and awarded Swedish Woman of the Year 2011 by SWEA International. Christina was a Post Doctoral Fellow at MIT, has her B.Sc. in Chemistry & Calculus, and her Ph.D. in Inorganic Chemistry from Uppsala University in Sweden.