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Personalia
| Full Name | Klas Erik Finn Modin |
Affiliation
| Address | Chalmers University of Technology and University of Gothenburg |
| Office phone | +46(0)31-772 35 22 |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-6900-1122 |
Education
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2010 PhD
Lund University, Lund, Sweden - in Mathematics
- Title Adaptive Geometric Numerical Integration of Mechanical Systems
- Supervisors Claus Führer and Gustaf Söderlind
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2004 Master of Science
Lund University, Lund, Sweden - in Mathematics
Academic positions
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2020-now Professor
Chalmers University of Technology -
2017-2020 Associate Professor
Chalmers University of Technology -
2013-2017 Assistant Professor
Chalmers University of Technology -
2012-2014 -
2009-2012 Post-doctoral Fellow
Massey University, New Zealand - Funded by the Marsden Fund and the Royal Physiographical Society in Lund
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2004-2005
Tutoring experience
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Supervision of Post-docs
- Geir Bogfjellmo (2015-2017)
- Sagy Ephrati (2023-now)
- Eugen Bronasco (2025-now)
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Supervision of PhD Students
- Michael Roop (2021-now)
- Erik Jansson (2020-2025)
- Milo Viviani (2015-2020)
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Supervision of Master Students
- 10 at Chalmers and GU
- 2 at ENS Cachan, France
Selection of Grants and Awards
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2025 Göran Gustafsson Award in Mathematics
- Göran Gustafsson Foundation
- selected by the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences
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2024 Wallenberg Academy Fellow, continuation
- Knut and Alice Wallenberg Foundation
- selected by the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences
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2022 Project Grant
- Swedish Research Council
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2019 Wallenberg Academy Fellow
- Knut and Alice Wallenberg Foundation
- selected by the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences
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2017 Starting Grant
- Swedish Research Council
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2015 Stenbäckska Stipendiet
- Ruth och Nils-Erik Stenbäcks stiftelse
- selected by the Finnish Society of Sciences and Letters
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2015 Marie Skłodowska-Curie Individual Fellowship
- EU Horizon 2020
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2013 Ingvar Carlsson Award
- Swedish Foundation of Strategic Research
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2012 International Post-doc Grant
- Swedish Research Council
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2010 Post-doctoral Stipend
- Hellmuth Hertz' Foundation
- selected by the Royal Physiographic Society of Lund
Short Bio
- Klas Modin did his PhD at Lund University in Sweden, with a thesis on symplectic numerical methods for Hamiltonian systems. After that he did two post-docs, first at Massey University in New Zealand and then at the University of Toronto in Canada. Since 2020 he's Professor of Mathematics at Chalmers University of Technology in Sweden. In 2013 he recieved an Ingvar Carlsson Award for his work in shape analysis. In 2015 he became Marie Skłodowska-Curie Fellow within the EU Horizon Programme. In 2019 he was selected Wallenberg Academy Fellow by the Royal Swedish Academy of Science. In 2025 he recieved the Göran Gustafsson Award in Mathematics.