Professor for Inorganic Chemistry
Kersti Hermansson (born in 1951) is a Professor for Inorganic Chemistry at Uppsala University.
Education and professional career.
She did her PhD on "The Electron Distribution in the Bound Water Molecule" in 1984. From 1984 to 1986, she had a postdoctoral fellowship from the Swedish Research Council with Dr. E. Clementi at IBM-Kingston, USA. From 1986–1988, she was a Högskolelektor in Inorganic Chemistry at Uppsala University. In 1988, she was a docent of Inorganic Chemistry at Uppsala University. In 1996, she was a Biträdande professor. Since 2000, she is a professor of Inorganic Chemistry at Uppsala University. During this time (2008-2013), she was a part-time guest professor at KTH Stockholm.
Research.
Her research focuses on condensed-matter chemistry including the investigation of chemical bonding and development of quantum chemical methods.
Awards.
She received several prizes for her research: