I have a doctoral degree in medicine/phyiology. I'm currently a senior lecturer in Umeå teaching, supervising students and my research areas are recovery processes, football, women.
I work at Sports Medicine as a senior lecturer where I will teach physiology and exercise theory. I have a background in football and am a member of the Swedish Football Association's medical committee, and I have or had some assignments for UEFA and FIFA. I have experience of working as a physical trainer / physical manager for elite women's football where I have worked with the women's national team in China, USA and Sweden. I have been a leader in three Olympic tournaments, two European Championship tournaments and one World Cup.
I currently work with teaching at the Idrottsfysiolog Program, supervise bachelor's and master's theses and am involved in two research projects. One is about training and match load for young female footballers where we collect training data using GPS. The second project is about walking football for seniors, where we have mapped the physiological load on walking football training. We will continue with walking football studies and hope to be able to conduct an intervention study for seniors where we will investigate the physiological effect of a certain number of weeks of training with walking football.
Special area
My areas of interest are applied training, periodization, training load, recovery, and field tests. My research specializes in women's football studies, where we have mapped physical match load, recovery processes, oxidative stress and the immune system after football matches.
Current research
Group member
“Physical workload and injury incidence in elite youth soccer players” a project by Svenska fotboll förbundet, Göteborgs Universitet and Umeå Universitet
Group member
Walking football for health - a project collaboration between the Swedish Football Association, the University of Gothenburg and the Swedish School of Gymnastics and Sport.
Academic merits
2022 - Senior Lecturer at Sports Medicine, Umeå University
2018-2022 - Senior Lecturer, School of Physical Education and Sport, Stockholm
2004-2010 - PhD in Medical Science with specialization in Physiology/Medicine
1999-2001 - Master of Applied Science by research (Department of Exercise and Sport Science)
1997-1999 - Bachelor of Science and Sport Science