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Associate professor of applied materials at DTU Engineering Technology.

Head of the Sensors & Functional Materials research group. Main research interests are the design, development and implementation of porous materials for chemical sensing and separation technology.

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Research group

Jaskaran Singh Malhotra (PhD student), Per Holger Reichert (PhD student), Deepthy Krishnan, Clara Duarte (research assistant), Swetha Gopalakrishnan (research assistant). Alumni: 1 PhD, 1 postdoc, 3 visiting students and multiple BSc/MSc students. 

Personal information

• Full name: Jonas Sundberg
• Living in Veksø, outside Copenhagen, Denmark.
• Born in 1982. Married to Sacha Sundberg, two children.
• Primary languages: Swedish, English.
• Secondary languages: Danish.

Current position

• Associate professor, DTU Engineering Technology, from 2024-01-01.

Past positions

• Senior researcher in materials chemistry, DTU Offshore, 2023-08 to 2023-12.
• Researcher, DTU Offshore, 2019-06 to 2023-07.
  • Since 2021, founded and leading the Sensors & Functionals Materials research group (originally at DTU Offshore)
• Postdoc at DTU Offshore, 2017-02 to 2019-05
• Research chemist at Copenhagen University Hospital, 2015-10 to 2016-10,
• Postdoc at University of Southern Denmark, 2013-07 to 2013-08.

Research stays abroad

• 2014, Stratingh Institute for Chemistry, University of Groningen, NL, to carry out Raman spectroscopy of coordination complexes under the supervision of professor Wesley Browne.
• 2012, The University of Sydney, AU, to carry out synthesis and X-ray diffraction studies of Cobalt - oxygen complexes, under the supervision of professor Cameron Kepert.
• 2010, Department of Chemistry, University of Gothenburg, to carry out synthesis and characterization of air-sensitive organometallic iron complexes, under the supervision of professor Mikael Håkansson.