Soft Matter in Life Core Group member and co-leader of WG2 (Pathways of multi-scale structure formation in macromolecular systems), LINXS Fellow

Professor, Lund University, Lund, Sweden

Anna is a specialist in applied surface and colloid chemistry with applications in foods and pharmaceuticals. She has an interest in x-ray and neutron techniques to study structure and dynamics in soft matter systems using scattering, spectroscopy and tomography. Her research interests focus on the interactions and structure formation in systems composed of biomolecules (proteins, lipids and carbohydrates) and how this can be applied in e.g. formation of structure in complex biomolecular systems, such as formulations of biological drugs (proteins, probiotics, nucleic acids) as well as foods (emulsions, gels and foams). Anna obtained her PhD in Biotechnology at Lund University (enzyme catalysed lipid synthesis), and moved to Reading, UK for a post-doc at Institute of Food Research. She then joined Institute for Surface Chemistry in Stockholm, Sweden (later merged into RISE), were she focused on drying technologies, powder and microencapsulation for food and pharma applications. She was the director of the Vinnova competence centre NextBioForm (2018-2024). She joined Lund University in 2023 as professor in Food technology.