Honorary Doctorates

Eva Lindroth

Eva Lindroth, professor of Theoretical Physics at Stockholm University. In addition to being a well-cited and excellent researcher, she has served as an associate supervisor for several doctoral students at LTH, been a frequent guest lecturer, and included LTH doctoral students in courses at Stockholm University.

Overall, over the past ten years, she has contributed to strengthening LTH's research profile and doctoral education in attosecond physics and has contributed to the advancement of the research field, according to the motivation.

Sabeth Verpoorte

Sabeth Verpoorte, professor of Analytical Chemistry at the University of Groningen in the Netherlands. According to the nominators, she has "an outstanding scientific output in the lab-on-a-chip and microfluidics field" and is also a female role model as she has advocated for female representation in scientific contexts.

Connection to LTH? In 2011, she was the Lise Meitner Professor and was then active at the Department of Measurement Technology and Industrial Electrical Engineering (now the Department of Biomedical Engineering). Since then, she has continued to teach in the course Lab-on-a-chip in biomedical applications.

Björn Liljeqvist

Björn Liljeqvist is a civil engineer who has made a name for himself as a lecturer and author on study techniques. And it is precisely thanks to his contributions in study techniques that he is now appointed an honorary doctor. He is also the chairman of Mensa International.

According to LTH's study counselor, who nominated him, he has had a positive impact on LTH's engineering students. For more than ten years, Björn Liljeqvist has regularly lectured on study techniques for students and consistently received positive evaluations. His efforts have contributed to increased independence and confidence among students.