My basic education is a M.Sc. in Bioengineering from Chalmers University of Technology. I performed my Ph.D. in the field of Radiology at Uppsala University where I developed PET based methods for tracking transplanted insulin-producing cells in the living body. I performed my postdoctoral training at the Preclinical PET Platform at the department of Medicinal Chemistry, also at Uppsala University. During this period I started my own research group which currently consists of two Ph.D. students. We are focused on developing new methodologies for studying molecular processes inside the human body involved in the development and treatment of diabetes. A second track is to develop targeted probes for diagnosis and treatment of a certain form of neuroendocrine tumors with origin in the pancreatic beta cells. I am in parallel performing a second postdoctoral training period at Turku PET Center in Finland, which focuses on molecular imaging of brown adipose tissue - a form of adipose tissue which burns energy rather than stores it. It has long been known to be important to the energy metabolism in rodents but was only recently discovered in adult humans.

Vivo molecular imaging, and positron emission tomography, new methods for diagnosis and radiotherapy of neuroendocrine tumors