Sören Östlund

Professor of Packaging Technology

Research areas

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

Ongoing graduate student research project as principal supervisor:

• Adam Attemalm (M.Sc. Mechanical Engineering, Karlstad University), "From fibre to fracture in paperboard", funded by Billerud AB, with Docent Mikael Nygårds.
• Emilie Despinoy (M.Sc. Mechanical Engineering, Université de Technologie de Compiègne, France), "Physics-based modelling of network deformation and damage in dry fibre moulding", funded by the EU through the Doctoral Network ENDURE, with Professor Artem Kulachenko.
• Petri Mäkelä(Tech. Lic. Solid Mechanics, KTH), "Fracture mechanics for paper".