Sören Östlund

Professor of Packaging Technology

Research areas

• Paper mechanics
• Fracture mechanics of paper and board
• Deformation and damage mechanisms of wood fibre based materials
• Forming of complex paper structures

Ongoing graduate student research project as principal supervisor:

• Petri Mäkelä (Tech. Lic. Solid Mechanics, KTH), "Fracture mechanics for paper".
• Adam Attemalm (M.Sc. Mechanical Engineering, Karlstad University), "Taking Control Over Variations in Paperboard Making", funded by Billerud AB, with Docent Mikael Nygårds.