At Chalmers’ inauguration of new professors on 20 March, 17 new professors were installed. The solemn ceremony also recognised and honoured four adjunct professors, seven affiliated professors, and three visiting professors.
The inauguration of new professors is an academic ceremony held every other year, and the professors installed have taken up their positions during the period from July 2024 to the end of 2025.
In his address during the ceremony, President and CEO Martin Nilsson Jacobi emphasised that the role of professor is greater than any ordinary job.
“You are, in every practical sense, now Chalmers’ foremost academic representatives. You will continue to be pioneers, but you are also senior figures who must pass on scientific work to future generations. You are also likely those best equipped pedagogically to explain your field to people outside academia. In other words, you are a link between past and future generations of researchers, but also a link between academia and society.”
This is an important responsibility, he underlined. Conducting advanced research is a privilege, and contributing knowledge to society is academia’s way of giving back.
The ceremony is framed by a procession accompanied by live music, this time performed by the Chalmers Baroque Ensemble, and the formal installation proceedings were interspersed with entertainment by the Chalmers Choir and the group Runaway Jam. The latter also contributed several performances during the subsequent dinner in the student union restaurant.
As tradition dictates, one of the newly appointed professors delivers a short lecture during the ceremony. This time it was mathematician Daniel Persson, who spoke, among other things, about the ability of humans and mathematics to understand nature through symmetries, in his lecture “The Quest for Unification – From Black Holes to AI through Mathematics”, which referred both to Albert Einstein and to Persson’s own symmetry-building son.
A tribute to the professors was also delivered in a speech by the President of the Student Union, Tobias Filmberg.
Adjunct professors
Tomas Bryllert, Microwave systems, Microtechnology and Nanoscience
Daniel Hellström, Water Environment Technology, Architecture and Civil Engineering
Patrick Plötz, Sustainable Energy and Transport, Space, Earth and Environment
Magnus Röding, Mathematical Statistics, Mathematical Sciences
Affiliated professors
Ricardo Baeza-Yates, Computer Science, Computer Science and Engineering
Carla Fabiana Chiasserini, Networks and systems, Computer Science and Engineering
Mads Dam, Computer Science, Computer Science and Engineering
Keith Hampson, Construction Management, Architecture and Civil Engineering
Babak Hassibi, Computer Science, Computer Science and Engineering
Marie Skepö, Theoretical Chemistry, Chemistry and Chemical Engineering
Julia Tjus, Astronomy, Industrial and Materials Science
Guest professors
Mette Geiker, Reinforcement Corrosion, Service Life and Repair of Concrete Structures, Architecture and Civil Engineering
Alexandre Proutière, Machine learning and AI, Computer Science and Engineering
Madhavi Srinivasan, Sustainable Materials, Industrial and Materials Science
Installed professors
Johan Ahlström, Materials Science, Industrial and Materials Science
David Cohen, Computational mathematics, Mathematical Sciences
Andreas Dahlin, Surface Science, Chemistry and Chemical Engineering
Jelke Dijkstra, Experimental geomechanics, Architecture and Civil Engineering
Paul Erhart, Physics, Physics
Åsa Haglund, Photonics, Microtechnology and Nanoscience
Ida-Maja Hassellöv, Maritime Environmental Science, Mechanics and Maritime Sciences
Jessica Jewell, Technology and Society, Space, Earth and Environment
Balázs Kulcsár, Transport and Control, Electrical Engineering
Anna Martinelli, Material Science, Chemistry and Chemical Engineering
Maria Messing, Solid state physics, Microtechnology and Nanoscience
Paolo Monti, Communication Networks, Electrical Engineering
Daniel Persson, Mathematics, Mathematical Sciences
Saroj Prasad Dash, Experimental physics, Microtechnology and Nanoscience
Hjalmar Rosengren, Mathematics, Mathematical Sciences
Anders Skoogh, Maintenance Engineering, Industrial and Materials Science
Janine Splettstösser, Theoretical Physics, Microtechnology and Nanoscience