Svante Linusson

About me

I am a professor in discrete mathematics at the mathematics department of KTH.

My research field is combinatorics, most often in combination with probability, algebra or topology. I am currently also working on problems related to causality and is teaching within the WASP program. Another research interest has been the mathematics of electoral systems.

Short CV

Born 1969, Phd KTH 1995. Postdoc Bordeaux, France  96, Berkeley, USA 96/97.
Research assistent (forskarassistent) Stockhoms Universitet 97-00.
Professor of applied mathematics at Linköping University 2000-2005.
Professor of discrete mathematics at KTH since 2006.
Sabbatical in Berkeley USA 2011/2012.

University service

I am currently (since 2025) in the Employment committee (Anställningsutskottet) for the SCI-school.
Member of nominating committee for new president of KTH 2021-2022. Vice head of one division within math department 2017-2023. Member of fakultetskollegiet 2015-2019. Head of mathematics panel at VR (Swedish Science council) 2015-2017, member of the KTH central employment committee (Anställningsutskottet) 2007-2015. Director of Stockholm Mathematics Center 2013-2015, vice chair of math department 2012-2013.

Research

 

63 publications, see separate link. Upcoming conference, invited speaker to: Foundations of Computational Mathematics, Vienna July'26

Courses

Current course missing below is
WASP Graphical models and bayesian learning

Teaching is always a large part of being a professor of mathematics.

University third mission/outreach
Most notably an adviser to the changes in the Swedish constitution regarding the electoral methods to national, regional and local parliaments.  Changes in effect since 2018. Still lobbying one issue that needs to be fixed. Have made several hundreds of media appearances regarding the voting system and electoral results, and in particular if the absentee ballots could change the outcome of the election.