Dr. Anders Karlsson

Anders Karlsson, PhD, joined Elsevier in 2012 as Vice President, Global Strategic Networks in charge of the Asia Pacific Region. Before Elsevier he was for five years Counselor for Science and Innovation at the Embassy of Sweden in Tokyo, Japan. From March 2023 he is member of the Board of the Swedish Foundation for the Internationalization of Higher Education and Research (STINT). He is a steering committee member of the International Network for Government Science Advice (INGSA) Asia Chapter. Since June 2024 he is further member of the board of Toyo Solar Inc. (NASDAQ). He was until Nov. 2024 the Japan chapter chair of the International Association of Scientific, Technical and Medical Publishers (STM). Karlsson was professor in Quantum Photonics at the Royal Institute of Technology - KTH, Stockholm, Sweden, and his work leading a consortium on quantum information technology was awarded the EU René Descartes Research Prize in 2004. He has been Visiting Scientist at NTT Basic Research Labs, a Fulbright Fellow at Stanford University, École Polytechnique Paris, Zhejiang University and Senior Advisor at Osaka University. He has a Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering and a M.Sc. in Engineering Physics, both from KTH, Stockholm, Sweden.