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Lennart Elfgren - civil engineer

professor Division of Structural engineering, Lule University of Technology, Lule


Professor, Division of Structural Engineering, Luleå University of Technology (LTU), Luleå, Sweden.

Born 1942 in Göteborg, Sweden


Education :

- M Sc (Civil Engineering), Chalmers University of Technology, Göteborg 1965
- Ph D (Concrete Structures) Chalmers University of Technology, 1971
- Docent (Concrete Structures) Chalmers University of Technology, 1972


Positions :

-Research Assistant, Division of Concrete Structures, Chalmers Univ. of Technology, 1966 - 71
-Research Engineer, University of California at Berkeley, CA, USA. 1972 - 73
-Assoc. Prof. of Structural Engineering, Luleå University of Technology. 1973 - 80
-Design Engineer, AB Jacobson & Widmark, Göteborg, 1981 - 83
-Research Engineer, SP, Swed. Nat. Testing and Research Institute, Borås 1983
-Professor of Structural Engineering, Luleå University of Technology, LTU. 1984 -
-Dean, Faculty of Engineering, LTU. 1990 - 97
-Head of the Department of Civil and Mining Engineering, LTU. 1997 - 2003
-Director, CHPC, Centre for High Performance Cements, LTU. 1997 -
-Deputy Head of the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, LTU 2004 -

-Since 2003 Scientific Leader of the
EC Integrated Project: “Sustainable Bridges” with 32 partners from 11 European Countries. The budget amounts to 10 Million Euros for a four year period, see further www.sustainablebridges.net


Project and Committee Work - General :

1991 - 99Founding Fellow of the Bothnian Academy, Umeå, Sweden. Chairman 1998.
1992 - 98 Board Member, The Research Council of Norrbotten, Luleå.
1996 - 99 Chairman, COLDTECH, Center for Cold Climate Technology, LTU
1996 - Fellow of the Royal Skyttean Society, Umeå, Sweden
1997 - 01Member of the Executive Committee of "MiMi -Mitigation of the environmental impact from mining waste” - a research program founded by MISTRA, the Swedish Foundation for Strategic Environmental Research
1998 - 00 Member of the Program Committee for Building and Production Technology of BFR, the Swedish Council for Building Research.
2000 - Member of the Board of Luleå Railway Research Centre (Järnvägstekniskt Centrum vid LTU, JvTC)
2001 -Fellow of the Royal Swedish Academy of Engineering Sciences, IVA, Stockholm. Vice Chairman, Division III, Building and Construction 2003-2004
2003 - Member of the Committee for Research, Development and Demonstration of Banverket (The Swedish Rail Administration)
2004-Chairman, Centre for Risk and Safety at LTU in Boden