Gunnar Svedberg
Gunnar Svedberg was the Rector of the University of Gothenburg, in Sweden.
Svedberg studied at the Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm and received a Ph.D. in chemical engineering in 1975. He became a full professor at the KTH in 1989. He was the Rector of Mid Sweden University College from 1999 to 2003, and of the University of Gothenburg between July 2003 and September 2006. He was President of Innventia, until his retirement in June 2011.
Svedberg has been a member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Engineering Sciences since 1992.