Hans Blom

I obtained my M.Sc. in Engineering Physics from Uppsala University in 1998, which included exchanges 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 the Yokohama National University in Japan (97/98).

I obtained my Ph.D. from the Royal Institute of Technology/KTH in biophotonics in 2003, a joint collaboration with the Medical Physics group at Karolinska Institutet (98/03). Simultanously I also worked as a 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 2010 I was junior researcher at 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 doing research in super-resolution microscopy and its applications in life science.

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 national (via NMI) and international (via BNMI, EuBi) users 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.