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Mats Berg

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Professor in Railway Technology (2003- )

Head of the Rail Vehicles unit (2004-2023)

Board member of KTH Railway Group (2007-2024)

Editorial board member of Journal of Rail and Rapid Transit (2006-2023)

Editorial board member of Vehicle System Dynamics (2002-2023)

Board member of the International Association for Vehicle System Dynamics (IAVSD, 2005-2023)

Co-host of the 21st Int. Symposium on the Dynamics of Vehices on Roads and on Tracks, 2009 (IAVSD´09). See also a summary of the symposium and 31 selected papers.

Host of the two-day conference of Nordic Seminar on Railway Technology, 2001 and 2012

Main research interests are vehicle-track dynamic interaction and rail vehicle suspension dynamics as well as rail vehicle energy usage and associated greenhouse gas emissions.

Co-author of three state-of-the-art papers: Challenges in simulation of rail vehicle dynamics (2009), Modelling of suspension components in a rail vehicle dynamics context (2011), Contributions of vehicle dynamics to the energy efficient operation of road and rail vehicles (2021)

Co-author of two chapters in Handbook of Railway Vehicle Dynamics (2nd ed.) (2020)

Co-author of the text books Rail Systems and Rail Vehicles (2018, 650 pages)

Co-author of the text book Rail Vehicle Dynamics (2021, 370 pages)

For other publications, see Publication list

In 2020 ranked among the 2% most cited researchers globally in the field of Mechanical Engineering & Transports

Principal supervisor for the following PhD students: Rohan R Kulkarni (2023), Tomas Karis (2018), Matin Sh Sichani (2016), Babette Dirks (2015), Dirk Thomas (2013), Eric Berggren (2009), Nizar Chaar (2007), Roger Enblom (2006), Ben Diedrichs (2006), Pelle Carlbom (2000), Tomas Jendel (2000).

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At KTH since 1993, Associate Professor in 1995, Professor since 2003

Computational Engineer at ABB Atom, Västerås, 1992-1993

Computational Engineer at ABB Traction, Västerås, 1989-1992

Postdoc at University of California at Berkeley, 1987-1988

PhD in Structural Mechanics, Lund University, 1987

MSc in Civil Engineering, Lund University, 1980


Courses

Degree Project in Rail Vehicle Engineering, Second Cycle (SD231X), examiner | Course web

Rail Vehicle Dynamics (SD2313), teacher | Course web

Rail Vehicle Technology (SD2307), teacher | Course web

Vehicle System Technology (SD2221), teacher | Course web

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Publication list