Stig Hagstrom

Director

Academic Background

Experience

2001 to present: Co-Director Stanford Center for Innovations in Learning, SCIL
1992 to present: Professor Emeritus, Department of Materials Science and Technology, Stanford University
1992 to 1998: University Chancellor, Swedish University and College System.
Chairman of the Board, Swedish Agency for Higher Education
1993 to 1996 Chairman of the Royal Swedish Academy of Engineering Sciences
1988 to 1992 Director, Stanford Center for Materials Research
1987 to 1992 Professor and Chairman, Department Material Science & Engineering Stanford University
1976 to 1987 Research Manager and Senior Research Fellow, Xerox Palo Alto Research Center
1969 to 1976 Professor of Physics and Vice President of Linköping University, Sweden
1966 to 1969 Associate Professor of Physics, Chalmers University of Technology and Göteborg University, Göteborg, Sweden
1965 to 1966, Research Staff Member, Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory, University of California, Berkeley
1964 Research Associate Massachusetts Institute of Technology
1960 to 1964 Assistant Professor of Physics, University of Uppsala, Sweden

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Membership and Honorary Degrees

Honorary Member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Engineering Sciences
Member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences
Member of the Royal Norwegian Society of Sciences and Letters
Member of Royal Physiographical Society of Lund
Fellow of the American Physical Society
Honorary Doctorate Degree in Engineering, University of Linköping, Sweden
Honorary Doctorate Degree in Engineering, Technical University of Blekinge, Sweden
Member of the Board, Sweden-America Foundation
Vice Chairman of the Swedish Government Commission on Information Technology 1993 – 1998
Chairman of the Swedish Government Commission on Research Policy 1997 – 1998
Knight of the Royal North Star Order
Recipient of the Royal Swedish Medal
Recipient of the John Ericsson Gold Medal
Board Member of King Carl Gustaf XVI Foundation
Board Member of the Peter Wallenberg Foundation for Technology and Economics
Adjunct Member of the Nobel Committee for the Physics Prize, 1988 - 2000

Publications

More than 100 scientific and technical publications in the areas of atomic and solid state physics, synchrotron radiation research and thin film deposition. Contributor to a large number of international conferences and symposia. Articles on quality issues in higher education. Contributions to Swedish newspapers and magazines on current topics in education

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