Curriculum Vitae Peter A. Andrekson
M.Sc. degree: Electrical engineering, Chalmers University of Technology, 1984.
Ph.D. degree: Optoelectronics, Chalmers University of Technology, 1988. “Terminal
Electrical Noise in Semiconductor Lasers,” Supervisor; Prof. Sverre T. Eng.
Post-doctor positions: AT&T Bell Laboratories, N.J., USA, 1989-1992 (latter year as MTS)
Year of docent competence: 1994.
Current employment: Full professor of Photonics, Head of Optical fiber communication
Group, Chalmers University of Technology, Gothenburg, Sweden, 2001
Previous employments:
 Visiting professor, Lehigh University, Bethlehem, PA, USA, 2003-2004.
 Director of Research, Cenix Inc., Allentown, PA, USA, 2000-2003.
 Bitr. Professor, Chalmers University of Technology, Gothenburg, Sweden, 1995-2001.
 Assistant Professor, Chalmers University of Technology, Gothenburg, Sweden, 1992-1995.
 Post-doctoral fellow, AT&T Bell Laboratories, 1989-1992.
 Research Assoc., Chalmers University of Technology, Gothenburg, Sweden, 1988-1989.
Graduated PhD students under my direct supervision: Kent Bertilsson 1994, Per-Olof
Hedekvist 1998, Bengt-Erik Olsson 1998, Bamdad Bakhshi 2000, Henrik Sunnerud 2001,
Jonas Hansryd 2001, Jie Li 2004, Mathias Westlund 2004, Per Kylemark 2006, Thomas
Torounidis 2006, Mats Sköld 2008, Andreas Wiberg 2008, Martin Sjödin 2012, Ekawit
Tipsuwannakul 2012, Carl Lundström, 2012.
Distinctions:
 Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)
 Fellow of the Optical Society of America (OSA)
 Recipient of the 2000 Telenor Nordic Research Award for contribution to “optical
technologies”.
 Recipient of the 1993 research award from the Swedish Government Research Committee
for outstanding work by young scientists.
 The PhD work was awarded the SAAB Combitech Award in 1985.
 The PhD work was awarded the Volvo/SKF Award in 1987
 The M.Sc. work won 1st Prize in the IEEE/Region 8 student paper contest, Madrid, 1985.
 Holder of an ERC Advanced Grant on Phase-sensitive optical amplifiers (2012-2017)
National and international assignments:
 Program committee member of the European Conference on Optical Communication
(ECOC) for about 15 years. Program committee member of the Optical Fiber
Communication Conference (OFC), sub-committee chair in 2010, Conference on Lasers
and Electro-Optics (CLEO), several IEEE Topical meetings, etc for many years.
 Published about 400 international peer-reviewed journal and conference papers. Hirsch
index is about 30 (according to Web of Science).
 Main responsible person for numerous research project sponsored by VR (and TFR),
Vinnova, SSF, US Air Force (EOARD), Ericsson AB, European Commission.
 Served twice as an expert evaluator for the Nobel Prize in Physics.
 Associate editor for IEEE Photonics Technology Letters, 2003 – 2007.
 Acted as external international PhD dissertation examiner for eleven PhD students.
 Panel Evaluator for the European Research Council.
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 Secretary of the Organizing Committee and Technical Program Committee of European
Conference on Optical Communication (ECOC’89) held in Gothenburg, Sweden.
 Secretary of the Board of the IEEE Student Branch at Chalmers University, 1986-1988.
 Current member of the board of Alfred Ots Scholarship Foundation
 Current member of the board of Chalmers University of Technology AB.
 Current elected member of Board of Governors for IEEE Photonics Society
Cooperation and/or communication of research results:
 Leader of Swedish activities in the very successful EU - ACTS project ‘MIDAS’
involving field trials during 1996-1998, including knowledge transfer within EU.
 Helped define executive leadership and activities in a newly established Center for Optical
Technologies (COT) at Lehigh University in the US. The COT is a large scale effort of
approx $30M (250 MSEK) over 5-7 years.
 Responsible for the next generation product definition in a small technology startup
(Cenix Inc.) receiving over USD60M in venture capital funding.
 Co-founder of a (2004) Swedish high-tech T&M company (PicoSolve Inc) acquired by
EXFO Inc (Canada) in 2009.
 Holder of eight patents.
 Visiting researcher at Osaka University, Japan, summer 2003 and summer 2005.
 Collaboration with (not complete list); Dr. M. Onishi, Sumitomo Industries, Japan, Prof.
S. Radic, UCSD, California, USA Prof. K. Vahala, California Institute of Technology,
USA, Professors T. Koch, J. Toulouse, J. Hwang, R. Blum, Lehigh University, USA, Dr.
A. Ellis, Cork University, Ireland, Prof. M. Matsumoto, Osaka University, Japan, Prof. D.
Richardson, Deputy, Southampton University, UK, Prof. A. Bjarklev, Technical Univ.
Denmark and Crystal Fibre A/S, Prof. P. Jeppesen, Technical University of Denmark, Dr.
Chraplyvy, Lucent Technologies, USA.
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External international PhD dissertation evaluator for:
o Benny Christensen, Technical University of Denmark, 1994.
o Xiupu Zhang, Technical University of Denmark, 1996.
o Erling Kolltveit, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, 1996.
o Lars Grüner-Nielsen, Technical University of Denmark, 1998.
o Peter Møller Kjeldsen, Technical University of Denmark, 1998.
o Arne Røyset, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, 2000.
o Kim Hansen, Technical University of Denmark, 2004.
o Erwin Verdurmen, Technical University of Eindhoven, the Netherlands, 2006.
o Anders Dræborg Clausen, Technical University of Denmark, 2007.
o Tuomo von Lerber, Helsinki University of Technology, Finland, 2007.
o Hans Christian Hansen Mulvad, Technical University of Denmark, 2008.
o Trung Duc Vo, University of Sydney, Australia, 2011.
o Zohreh Lali-Dastjerdi, Technical University of Denmark, 2013
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External international expert evaluator for several major research grant proposals and high
level appointments (e.g. full professors) from e.g. UC Santa Barbara, USA, Duke
University, USA, University of Southampton, UK, UC San Diego, USA, TU Eindhoven,
the Netherlands, Sultan Qaboos University, Oman, Technical University of Denmark, etc.
External national evaluator for several research grant proposals (e.g. VR, Vinnova) and
appointments (e.g. at KTH in Stockholm).
Expert reference person for several persons applying for permanent residence (“Green
card”) in the USA with “extraordinary ability” as a justification.
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