Soft Matter in Life Core Group member, LINXS Fellow

Professor, Lund University, Lund, Sweden

Emma is a physical chemist specializing on lipid self-assembly, membrane biophysics and lipid-protein interactions. Her current research focuses on lipid-protein co-assembly in amyloid formation, membrane remodelling and lipid self-assembly in non-equilibrium conditions. Emma obtained her PhD in Physical Chemistry at Lund University in 2001. After two postdoc periods; at the Department of Pharmacy at Uppsala University, and at the Department Biochemistry of Membranes at Utrecht University, she moved in 2004 back to Lund to start a research group, where she is now a professor in the Division of Physical Chemistry. Emma is the Director of the COMMONS Center of Excellence. Emma has been the chair of the Research council for natural and engineering sciences at Swedish Research council, and she has leadership tasks at Faculty and Institutional level at Lund University.