Erik Aurell

Erik Aurell

Office: AlbaNova University Center C4:3037
Cell: +46-709-91 64 48
Mail: eaurell@kth.se

Researcher unique identifier: ORCID 0000-0003-4906-3603

Google scholar: https://scholar.google.se/citations?user=NwiimYAAAAAJ&hl=en&oi=ao

DOCTORAL DEGREE

Göteborgs Universitet, 1989

POSTDOC APPOINTMENTS
Dept Mathematics, KTH (Gustavsson postdoc), 1990-92
Observatoire de Nice, France (1989-90)

DOCENT-LEVEL COMPETENCE

Docent in Matematisk Fysik [Mathematical Physics], Stockholms Universitet [Stockholm University], 1995

CURRENT POSITION

Professor of Theoretical Biological Physics, Dept Computational Science and Technology, School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, KTH - Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden (since 2003)

PRIOR POSITIONS

2014 – 2018, Aalto Adjunct Professor, Aalto University, Finland

2018   ESPCI Joliot Chair, ESPCI, Paris, France

2016 – 2017, Guest Professor, ITP/CAS, China

2008 – 2013 Finland Distinguished Professor, Academy of Finland

2007 – 2010 Director, KTH Dept Computational Biology, Sweden

2001 – 2003 Senior researcher, SICS Swedish Institute of Computer Science AB, Sweden

1998 – 2000 University lecturer, Dept. of Mathematics, Stockholm University, Sweden

1992 – 1998 Researcher, Swedish Research Council (NFR Särskild forskare)

                       

AWARDS, NATIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL RESPONSIBILITIES (SELECTION)

2024            Invited speaker, Colloquium: Sadi Carnot's Legacy, Ecole Polytechnique, Paris, France

2022            Main organizer, Nobel Symposium NS183, the first event in the «Nobel in Africa» series

2021–           Board member, European Physical Society Division of Statistical and Nonlinear Physics

2017            Member of university-wide panel for Research Assessment Exercise, Tampere University of Technology, Tampere (Finland) 

2016             Chinese Academy of Sciences President’s International Fellowship Initiative (China)

2012–2017   co-PI and member of the Executive Committee of Finnish Center of Excellence in Computational Inference Research, Aalto University and University of Helsinki (Finland)

2008–2013   Finland Distinguished Professor, Academy of Finland (Finland)

BIOSKETCH

Aurell started his career in Statistical Physics, where it has mostly remained. He currently (spring 2025) serves on the Board of the European Physical Society Division of Statistical and Nonlinear Physics. His most highly cited paper is on introducing the pseudo-likelihood maximization technique in inference of Gibbs-Boltzmann distributions for biological data analysis (Ekeberg et al Phys Rev E 2013, 772 citations). Since 2015 he has worked extensively on open quantum systems, a part of Statitsical Physics concerned with dynamically evolving quantum systems. He edited the memorial volume for the late Swedish physicist Göran Lindblad who made fundamental contributions to this area. He also has a recent research activity on quantum black holes (Aurell et al, Phys Rev Lett 2024).