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Biography

Prof. Kerstin Forsberg

Forsberg has been active as an independent professor focusing on crystallization and resource recovery at KTH since 2010. She got her MSc degree in chemical engineering at KTH in 2003, including an academic exchange at ETH in Zurich. Her PhD thesis focused on how membrane technology and crystallization can be combined for the recovery of metals from spent pickling bath acids. After a short postdoc focused on crystallization in the pharmaceutical industry and microreactor technology Forsberg joined KTH as an assistant professor in 2010. Since then, she has focused on developing fundamental knowledge of crystallization processes through research projects, primarily exploring battery recycling (NiMH, LiB and LFP), recovery of critical raw materials from red mud (Sc and V), recovery of phosphorous and rare earth elements from apatite concentrates, and recovery of rare earth elements from magnet waste. Some work has also focused on synthesis of metal organic framework particles and composites, mobility of radionuclides and adsorption.

Positions held

  • Professor in Chem. Eng., KTH, Dept. of Chem. Eng., 2023.5 –
  • Head of division, Resource recovery, 2016.7 –
  • Associate Professor in Chem. Eng., KTH, Dept. of Chem. Eng., 2015.12 – 2023.4
  • Assistant Professor in Chem. Eng., KTH, Dept. of Chem. Eng., 2010.9 – 2015.11
    Full time parental leave 2011.4 – 2012.3.

Education

  • Docent, Chemical Engineering, KTH, Dept. of Chem. Eng., 2016.12
  • Ph.D., Chemical Engineering, KTH, Dept. of Chem. Eng., 2003.6 – 2009.6
    Thesis title: "Crystallization of Metal Fluoride Hydrates from Mixed Acid Solutions",
    Supervisor: Prof. Å. Rasmuson.
    Full time parental leave 2007.9 – 2008.9.
  • M.Sc., Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, KTH, 1998.9 – 2003.6
    Exchange student at ETH, Zürich, Switzerland, 2001/ 2002 

Commisions of trust

  • Editor, Sustainable Materials and Technologies, SM&T (Elsevier), 2023.12 – 2026.12
  • Associate editor, Waste Management, WM (Elsevier), 2025.07 – 2026.12
  • Member of the board, KTH Climate Action Centre, 2025.01 –
  • Member of the management team, KTH Circular Economy initiative, 2018 – 
  • Member, research platform advisory board, Circular Economy for Sustainable Resources in the Energy and Digital Transitions (CIRSET), Univ. of Lorraine, France, 2025 – 2030
  • Member, international scientific committee, Next-generation and improved circular sustainable battery technology value chain (FME Battery). A Norwegian center funded by the science council in Norway, 2024 – 2032
  • Member, scientific advisory board, school of chemical engineering, Aalto university, Finland, 2024 –
  • Director for the strategic partnership between KTH and IVL Swedish Environmental Research Institute, 2022.07 – 2026.06
  • Chair (elected), Hydrometallurgy and Electrometallurgy Committee, The Minerals, Metals & Materials Society TMS, 2023.03 – 2025.03
  • Vice chair (elected), Hydrometallurgy and Electrometallurgy Committee, TMS, 2021.03 – 2023.03
  • Member, KTH CBH school docent committee, 2022.05 –  2024.12
  • JOM advisor, topic editor for the Journal of The Minerals, Metals & Materials Society (Springer), 2021.04 – 2023.03
  • Deputy director/ acting director, for the Industrial Transformation platform at KTH, 2019.05 – 2024.05
  • Program director, MSc program in Chemical Engineering for Energy and Environment, KTH 2019.07 – 2022.12
  • Member of the board, KTH Water Centre, 2017.03 – 2021.06
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