Christina Moberg
Professor emeritus organic chemistry
KTH School of Engineering Sciences in Chemistry, Biotechnology and Health
Teknikringen 30
100 44 Stockholm
Sweden
Tel. +46 8 790 9036
Mobile. +46 702 140404
Christina Moberg graduated from Stockholm University in 1970 and continued with PhD studies (1970-75) at KTH under the supervision of Prof. M. Nilsson. After a stay with Prof J. Normant at Université Paris 6 and postdoctoral studies with Prof. B. Åkermark at KTH (1976–78) she was appointed as assistant professor at KTH (1978) and later (1989) as associate professor. In 1997 she became full professor in organic chemistry at KTH.
VISITING PROFESSORSHIPS
ENS, Paris, France (1 month 1993)
Univ. Louis Pasteur, Strasbourg, France (1 month 1999 and 1 month 2002)
INSA/IRCOF, Rouen, France (1 month 2005)
Univ. of Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany (1 week 2006)
COMMISSIONS OF TRUST
Scientific Advisory Boards
Member of the Chemistry Committee of the Swedish Natural Science Research Council 1983–1989
Member of the Chemical Engineering Committee of the Swedish Research Council for Engineering Sciences 1995–2000
Member of the Board of the Swedish Research Council 2001–2003
Member of the Board of the Danish National Research Foundation (DNRF) 2013–2021
Review panel member
Member of Review Panels the Swedish Research Council for Natural Sciences 1983–89
Member of Review Panels the Swedish Research Council for Engineering Sciences 1995–2000
Member of Review Panels the Danish Natural Research Foundation (DNRF) 2013–2021
Member of Evaluation Panel Institut Universitaire, France 2013 and 2015
Chair of Review Panel Grants for Distinguished Professors, the Swedish Research Council 2015
Member of ERC Consolidator Grant Review Panel 2016
Member of Review Panel, the Villum Foundation, Denmark 2017–18
Member of Review Panel the Portuguese Research Council 2021
A number of additional review commitments for Research Councils, mainly in Europe
Member of Expert panels for professor positions in several European countries
Scientific Evaluations of Institutions
Member of Evaluation Panel Lund University, Chemistry Department, Sweden 2007
Member of Evaluation Panel Helsinki University, Chemistry Department, Finland 2018–19
Chair of Evaluation Panel Lund University, Chemistry Department, Sweden 2021
Member of Evaluation Panel National Research Center, the Netherlands 2021
Editorial Boards
Member of International Advisory Board of Angewandte Chemie 2012–2019
Member of International Advisory Board of ChemPlusChem 2012–2019
Member of Editorial Board New Journal of Chemistry 2013–2017
Member of International Advisory Board of the European Journal of Organic Chemistry 2015–2017
Member Editorial Advisory Board of Helvetica Chimica Acta 2016–2021
OTHER MAJOR ACHIEVEMENTS
Leadership Positions
Vice President KTH, 1998
Head of Department, Organic Chemistry, KTH 1998–2015
Vice Dean KTH 1999–2004, Dean Febr–April 2004
Vice President European Academies’ Science Advisory Council, EASAC, 2017–2019
President European Academies’ Science Advisory Council, EASAC, 2020–2022
Membership in Science Academies
Elected Member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences 1998
Vice President of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences
President of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences 2015–2018
Elected Member of the Royal Swedish Academy for Engineering Sciences 1998
Elected Member of the European Academy of Sciences 2017
Elected Member of Academia Europea 2018
Elected Foreign Member of the Cyprus Academy of Sciences, Letters and Arts 2021
Awards and Distinctions
The "Lindbomska award" from the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences 1991
The Nordblad Ekstrand medal from the Swedish Chemical Society 1997
"The Göran Gustavsson prize" from the Academy of Sciences 1998
"Grade de Chevalier dans l'Ordre National du Mérite" from the French President 1999
"The Sixten Heyman price" from University of Gothenburg 2001
Excellent researcher VR 2003
The Rosalind Franklin Lecture Tour, UK, 2005
“The Ulla and Stig Holmquist prize” from University of Uppsala 2006
EuCheMs Lecture Award 2015
The King´s Medal 2016
The large Linné Medal in gold from the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences 2019
Honorary Awards
Honorary Doctor Lund University, Sweden 2014
Fellow of ChemPubSoc Europe 2015
Honorary Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry 2016
Peiyang Professor Tianjin University, China (equivalent to Honoris Causa) 2019
Miscellaneous
Chair ESOC Scientific Committee 2003–2005
Vice Chair COST D31 2004-2005, Chair 2005–2007
Member of the Expert group for misconduct in research, the Ethics Review Appeals Board 2015–18
Responsible for graduate courses on Research Integrity at several universities
Author of popular science articles
Author of large number of articles in major Swedish newspapers, as well as in a few in Danish and Norwegian newspapers, on policy for science and science for policy, many of them advocating for the importance of basic research
Invited Lectures
Nordiska koordinationskemimötet, Uppsala 1999 (plenary lecture)
OMCOS 99, Paris 1999 (session lecture)
ESOC 99, Göteborg 1999 (session lecture)
Norska kemistsamfundets vårmöte, Oslo 2001 (plenary lecture)
Finska kemistsamfundet, Åbo 2001 (plenary lecture)
OMCOS 01, Taiwan 2001 (invited short lecture)
"John van Geuns Foundation" lecture, Amsterdam 2001
COST D11 workshop in Supramolecular Chemistry, Slovenien 2001 (keynote lecture)
”Undheimsymposiet”, Oslo 2001 (plenary lecture)
IUPAC International Conference on Organometallic Chemistry, Korfu 2002 (session lecture)
Svenska organikerdagarna, Sundsvall 2002 (plenary lecture)
3rdWalden Symposium, Riga 2003 (invited lecture)
Baltic Symposium on Organic Synthesis, Riga 2004, (session lecture)
3rdEuchem Conference on Nitrogen Ligands, Italy 2004 (plenary lecture)
7th Nicolaus Symposium, Aachen 2004 (plenary lecture)
Rosalind Franklin Lectureships, UK, April 2005
OMCOS 05, Geneva 2005 (invited short lecture)
5th International School of Organometallic Chemistry, Camerino, Italy, September 2005
The 55th Gordon Conference on Natural Products Chemistry, Tilton, NH, USA, July 2006 (invited lecture)
Svenska Organikerdagarna 2006 (plenary lecture)
8th International Symposium on Carbanion Chemistry, Madison, USA, June 2007 (session lecture)
The Eli Lilly Lecture, ICIQ, Tarragona, November 2007
Symposium on Combinatorial Catalysis within the 236th National ACS Meeting in Philadelphia, PA (Aug 17-21, 2008) (invited lecture)
Ischia International Summer School, Ischia, Italy, September 2008
Tarragona International Summer School, Tarragona, July 2009
“The Element”, The Royal Netherlands Chemical Society (KNCV), Utrecht 2009 (plenary lecture)
“ La Reunion Bienal de Química Orgánica”, Murcia 2010 (plenary lecture)
BOSS XII, Namur, Belgium 2010 (plenary lecture)
The Winter meeting of the Norwegian Chemical Society 2011 (plenary lecture)
6thRenacom, Errachidia, Morocco 2011 (plenary lecture)
Advances in Synthetic and Medicinal Chemistry, St Petersburg 2011 (plenary lecture)
18th International Symposium on Homogeneous Catalysis, Toulouse, France 2012 (invited lecture)
11th Symposium on Chemical Approaches to Chirality, Tokyo Sept 2012 (plenary lecture)
The John Osborn conference, Strasbourg, April 2014.
GEQO XXXII, Tarragona September 2014 (plenary lecture).
Leyden Symposium, Hannover, Febr 2015
EuCheMs Lecture ESOC Lisabon, July 2015
Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin Symposium Zürich, October 2015
50th Advances in Organic, Bioorganic and Pharmaceutical Chemistry, Liblice Check Republic, October 2015
Wageningen Symposium on Organic Chemistry, the Netherlands, April, 2016
Advances in Organic Chemistry – Smolenice, September 2016
Hoffmann - La Roche, December 2017