Kersti Hermansson

She did her PhD on "The Electron Distribution in the Bound Water Molecule" in 1984.[1] From 1984 to 1986, she had a postdoctoral fellowship from the Swedish Research Council with Dr. E. Clementi at IBM-Kingston, USA.[1] From 1986–1988, she was a Högskolelektor in Inorganic Chemistry at Uppsala University.[1] In 1988, she was a docent of Inorganic Chemistry at Uppsala University.[1] In 1996, she was a Biträdande professor.[1] Since 2000, she is a professor of Inorganic Chemistry at Uppsala University.[1] During this time (2008-2013), she was a part-time guest professor at KTH Stockholm.[1]

Her research focuses on condensed-matter chemistry including the investigation of chemical bonding and development of quantum chemical methods.[2]

She received several prizes for her research:

• "Letterstedska priset" from the Swedish Royal Academy of Sciences (KVA) (1987)[1]
• "Oskarspriset" from Uppsala University (1988)[1]
• "Norblad-Ekstrand" medal in gold from the Swedish Chemical Society (2003)[1]
• Member of Kungl. Vetenskapssamhället (Academia regia scientiarum Upsaliensis, KVSU), Uppsala (since 1988)[1]
• Member of Royal Society of Science (since 2002)[1]
• Member of Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences (since 2007)[1][3]
• Adjunct professor at the Kasetsart University, Bangkok (2005)[1]
• Honorary guest professor at the Department of Ion Physics and Applied Physics, Innsbruck University (since June 2009)[1]