Institutionen för systemteknik (ISY)

Christer Svensson

Christer Svensson was born in Borås, Sweden, in 1941 and received the M.S. and Ph.D. degrees from Chalmers University, Sweden, in 1965 and 1970 respectively. He was with Chalmers University from 1965 to 1978, where he performed research on MOS transistors, nonvolatile memories and gas sensors. He joined Linköping University 1978 and is since 1983 professor in Electronic devices there. As professor he initiated a new research group on integrated circuit design.

His present interests are high performance and low power analog and digital CMOS circuit techniques for computing, wireless systems and sensors. Svensson has published more than 180 papers in international journals and conferences and holds ten patents. He was awarded the Solid-State Circuits Council 1988-89 best paper award. He is a member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, the Royal Swedish Academy of Engineering Sciences and was 2003 elected Fellow of IEEE. He cofounded several companies, for example SiCon Semiconductor, Switchcore (publ.) and Coresonic.

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