Curriculum Vitae

PhD in applied mathematics, has done research with intended applications in electrical engineering, demographics, pure mathematics and mathematics education.

Years of professional experience with university level education for large and small groups, as well as developing supporting software of varying complexity.

Experienced in coordinating small groups with members of varying professional, cultural and ethnic backgrounds.

Has experience in coordinating small groups and enabling communication between individuals with different professional, cultural and ethnical backgrounds.

Enjoys learning new things, mainly about behind-the-scenes problems involving technology and/or communication.

Mälardalen University (Västerås, Sweden), Division of Applied Mathematics, 01-2012 – 02-2015 (part of doctoral candidate duties), 03-2015 – 09-2019 (50% employment), 10-2019 – 01-2021 (100% employment)

• Teaching, organisation and examination of courses on a basic and advanced level. Subjects include calculus, numerical methods, biomathematics and bioinformatics, quantum computing and information theory, applied matrix analysis.
• Supervision of a few master's thesis in topics related to non-linear curve-fitting for phenomenological modelling of e.g. electrostatic discharges or mortality rates.
• Co-supervision of two PhD candidates.
• Programme coordination for the master's programme in Engineering Mathematics, including:
  • Revision and development of the content of the programme,
  • Creation of individual study plan for students in the programme,
  • Convening programme council and industry council,
  • Recruitment both nationally and internationally.

Mälardalen University (Västerås, Sweden), Division of Applied Mathematics, 01-2012 – 02-2015 (part of doctoral candidate duties), 03-2015 – 09-2019 (50% employment), 10-2019 – 01-2021 (100% employment)

• Development of software for an online system for supporting independent study in mathematics-related subjects, including:
  • Collecting, understanding and prioritising needs and feature requests from teachers in many different subjects, including pure mathematics, physics, various engineering fields and medicine,
  • Designing and developing software that analyses student responses and produces feedback,
  • Assisting in designing the interface between evaluation functions and web client.

Extreme points of the Vandermonde determinant and phenomenological modelling with power exponential functions

Link to slides used for thesis defense

Research topics included:

• Optimization of the Vandermonde determinant and related expressions on various surfaces.
• Curve-fitting of non-linear models for approximation of electrostatic discharges for use in electromagnetic compatibility.
• Curve-fitting and comparison of non-linear models for approximation of mortality rates.

Karl Lundengård, Peter Johnson, Phil Ramsden, Automated Feedback on Student Attempts to Produce a Set of Dimensionless Power Products from a Set of Physical Quantities that Describe a Physical Problem, International Journal for Technology in Mathematics Education, Volume 31, Number 3, pages 117--124(8) DOI: https://doi.org/10.1564/tme_v31.3.02

Vesna Javor, Karl Lundengård, Milica Rancic, Sergei Silvestrov, Analytical Representation of Measured Lightning Currents and Its Application to Electromagnetic Field Estimation, IEEE Transactions on Electromagnetic Compatibility, Volume 60, Issue 5, pages 1415 – 1426, (2018).

Karl Lundengård, Milica Rančić, Vesna Javor, Sergei Silvestrov, Electrostatic discharge currents representation using the analytically extended function with P peaks by interpolation on a D-optimal design, Facta Universitatis Series: Electronics and Energetics, ISSN 0353-3670, Vol. 32, no 1, pages 25 – 49, (2019).

Andromachi Boulougari, Karl Lundengård, Milica Rančić, Sergei Silvestrov, Samya Suleiman, Belinda Strass, Application of a power-exponential function-based model to mortality rates forecasting, Communications in Statistics: Case Studies, Data Analysis and Applications, E-ISSN 2373-7484, Vol. 5, No. 1, pages 3 – 10, (2019).

Link to full list of publications

Research topics included:

• Optimization of the Vandermonde determinant and related expressions on various surfaces.
• Curve-fitting of non-linear models for approximation of electrostatic discharges for use in electromagnetic compatibility.
• Curve-fitting and comparison of non-linear models for approximation of mortality rates.

• Began autumn semester 2006, study break autumn 2008 – spring 2009, exchange studies at Queen's University (Kingston, Canada) autumn 2010, completed degree autumn 2011.
• Master's thesis Quantum Computation and Symplectic Codes.