Jesper Sjöström

I was born in Malmö, Sweden in 1974. In 2002, I received a PhD in the field of surface and colloid chemistry at Lund University. In addition to chemistry, I have studied science teaching and environmental management. Furthermore, I have studied pharmaceutics and have practical experience of pharmaceutical R&D. Since 2003 I am undertaking research within the broad field of STS (=Science, Technology and Society) at the Research Policy Institute. My main research project is focused on collaborations and technology transfer within the emerging innovation system of green chemistry / industrial (”white”) biotechnology. This work is done as a part of the research programme Greenchem. More generally I have an interest in the whole field of “meta-chemistry”, i.e. philosophical, educational, historical and cultural perspectives on chemistry. Especially I am interested in the areas “chemistry, society and environment” and “chemistry, medias and the public”.

Some of my publications as “meta-scientist”:

• J. Sjöström (2006) “Beyond Classical Chemistry: Subfields and Metafields of the Molecular Sciences” Chemistry International, Vol. 28, No. 5, p. 9-15 (abstract)
• J. Sjöström (2006) “Green chemistry in perspective – models of GC activities and GC policy and knowledge areas” Green Chemistry, 8(2):130-137 (abstract)
• J. Sjöström “Kemin blir grönare” Kemivärlden med Kemisk Tidskrift, nr. 6/2005, s. 42-45
• J. Sjöström, Kemicentrum vid Lunds universitet – perspektiv på organisation och forskning vid Sveriges första storinstitution, bokmanus färdigställt september 2005
• J. Sjöström “Fysikifierat och biofierat” Kemivärlden Biotech med Kemisk Tidskrift, nr. 1/2006, s. 22-24
• J. Sjöström ”Perspektiv på naturvetenskapen” LUM, nr. 11/2002, s. 10
• J. Sjöström ”Lärarskapet i högskolan bör vara bildningsorienterat” Nyheter & Debatt, nr. 5/2006, s. 5

Some of my publications in the field of surface and colloid chemistry:

• J. Sjöström (2002) Surfactant Responsive Cross-Linked Polymer Hydrogels, Doctoral Thesis, Lund University (the thesis consists of three parts: (1) background and summary, (2) two literature reviews (”The history of cross-linked polymer gels” and “Responsive hydrogels: general trends of equilibrium swelling”), and (3) seven original research papers)
• L. Piculell, J. Sjöström and I. Lynch (2003) “Swelling isotherms of surfactant-responsive polymer gels” Progress in Colloid and Polymer Science, 122:103-112
• J. Sjöström “Smarta geler” Forskning & Framsteg, nr. 3/2001, s. 16-17