Krister Holmberg, born 1946, is a Swedish

chemist A chemist (from Greek ''chēm(ía)'' alchemy; replacing ''chymist'' from Medieval Latin ''alchemist'') is a scientist trained in the study of chemistry. Chemists study the composition of matter and its properties. Chemists carefully describe th ...

. Holmberg took a PhD in

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from

Chalmers University of Technology Chalmers University of Technology ( sv, Chalmers tekniska högskola, often shortened to Chalmers) is a Swedish university located in Gothenburg that conducts research and education in technology and natural sciences at a high international level ...

in Gothenburg, Sweden in 1974. He then worked in industry for many years and he was R&D Director of Berol Nobel in Stenungsund, Sweden. During the period 1991-1998 he was Director of the Institute for Surface Chemistry in Stockholm. Since 1998 he is Professor of Surface Chemistry at

. His research during recent years has had a focus on the behavior of surface active compounds in solution and at interfaces. He has been active in a number of industrial applications of surface and colloid chemistry. Holmberg has been visiting professor at universities in the EU, the US and China: P. et M. Curie in Paris, the University of Florence, the University of California at Santa Barbara and the Chinese Academy of Sciences in Beijing. He is a member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Engineering Sciences ''(Kungliga Ingenjörsvetenskapsakademien)'', of the

Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences ( sv, Kungliga Vetenskapsakademien) is one of the Swedish Royal Academies, royal academies of Sweden. Founded on 2 June 1739, it is an independent, non-governmental scientific organization that takes special ...

''(Kungliga Vetenskapsakademin)'' and of the Royal Academy of Arts and Sciences in Gothenburg ''(Kungliga Vetenskaps- och Vitterhetssamhället i Göteborg)''. He was chairman of the latter academy during 2014. In 2000, Holmberg was awarded the French National Order of Merit (''l'Ordre National du Mérite au grade de Chevalier''), and in 2006 he won the ''Oscar Carlson medal'' from the Swedish Chemical Society. He received the JCIS ''Life-Time Achievement Award'' in 2008, the ''Kash Mittal Award'' in 2018 and the ''Quancheng Friendship Award'' by the city of Jinan, China in 2019. In 2021 he received the Friendship Award of China from the Chinese Government.

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Holmberg, Krister 1946 births Living people Swedish chemists Organic chemists Members of the Royal Society of Sciences and Letters in Gothenburg Members of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences