Born in 1967 in Umeå (Sweden), study of physics at Chalmers University of Technology in Gothenburg, PhD 1994, visiting scientist at Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge (USA), scientist at Culham Science Centre in Abingdon (Great Britain) and adjunct professor at Chalmers University of Technology in Gothenburg (1996 - 2006), Director and Scientific Member at Greifswald Branch of Max Planck Institute for Plasma Physics (since 2006).