Bertil Andersson
President of Nanyang Technological University
Bertil Andersson is a Swedish college administrator and academic who served as the third president of Nanyang Technological University (NTU).
Andersson received his Bachelor of Science and Master of Science at Umeå University and his PhD and DSc at Lund University. He started his research career at Lund University, after which he became a professor of biochemistry at Stockholm University, Sweden, in 1986. From 1996 to 1999, he served as the Dean of the Faculty of Chemical Sciences at Stockholm University. In 1999, Andersson became the Rector (President) of Linköping University, Sweden, where he served until the end of 2003.
From 2004 to 2007, he led the European Science Foundation in Strasbourg, France, as its chief executive.
From April 2007 to June 2011, Andersson served as Provost of NTU in Singapore. Having strengthened NTU's reputation as one of the fastest-growing research-intensive universities in the world, he was appointed President of NTU on 1 July 2011.
Research and teaching
Andersson is a plant biochemist and the author of over 300 papers in photosynthesis research, biological membranes, protein and membrane purification and light
stress in plants. He has pioneered research on the artificial leaf, a promising area of sustainable energy research that uses sunlight to produce clean, low-cost sources of energy.
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