Hans Blom

I obtained my M.Sc. in Engineering Physics from Uppsala University in 1998, which included exchange studies at the Norwegian Technical University (94/95), the University of Bonn, Germany (96/97) - including trainee work at the electron microscopy facility at RWTH Aachen (96) - and master thesis work at Yokohama National University in Japan (97/98).

I obtained my Ph.D. from the Royal Institute of Technology/KTH in (bio)photonics in 2003 - a joint collaboration with the Medical Physics group at Karolinska Institutet (98/03) - including research collaborations with Chalmers, Lund Technical University, and EPFL in Switzerland (98/03). Simultanously I also worked as a visiting microscopy research engineer at Olympus in Tokyo, Japan (02).

Between 2003-2005 I did a postdoc in Nobel laurate Stefan W. Hell’s group at the Max-Planck-Institute for Biophysical Chemistry in Göttingen, Germany to develop super-resolution STED microscopy for single molecule analysis.

Between 2006 and 2011 I was junior researcher at Applied Physics/KTH developing and applying STED microscopy in cell biology, neuroscience, bacteriology and cancer research. Presently, I am a docent in Biological Physics at KTH continue developing and applying super-resolution microscopy for life sciences.

Since 2011 I am also working as Head of Unit at the national bioscience hub Science for Life laboratory (SciLifeLab), supporting scientists in need of super-resolution imaging. Together with my expert staff we service users nationally (via NMI and SciLifeLab) and international (via BNMI and EuBi) with advanced light microscopy.

My current research focus is development of super-resolved optical 3D kidney pathology, done in collaborations with nephrologists and clinicians at Karolinska Intitutet/MedTechLabs and with University of Cologne in Germany. Nanoscale tissue imaging also helps pharmaceutical companies validate new drug candidates, as supported by our KTH Innovation spin-off company Magnephy.