In 2025, CBH School received three assistant lecturers and one lecturer.
Tobias Bensefelt, Department of Fibre and Polymer Technology
Photo: Jon Lindhe
My research focuses on understanding and exploiting colloidal interactions in nanostructured bio-based materials,
particularly cellulose nanofibrils (CNF). I study how network structure, charge, and percolation influence mechanical, transport, and electronic properties, and use this insight to design adaptive functional materials.
A central part of my work is electrically tunable CNF-based membranes and monoliths for the separation of molecules and particles, developed within my ERC project DynanoNet and my VR Starting Grant.
I also lead projects on soft-robotic actuators and separator membranes for energy storage, and combine fundamental colloid chemistry and polymer physics using experiments and molecular simulations.
Simon Koplev, Department of Gene Technology
Overall, I am keenly interested in the ongoing synthesis of two types of information defining our modern age: biological and computational information, asking how this amalgamation can accelerate scientific discovery.
Incorporating advances in single-cell genomics, my work focuses on developing innovative statistical and machine learning methods that address fundamental research questions regarding cellular and tissue architecture. From there, the aim is for these insights to be used to spark breakthroughs in translational science across human diseases.
Moving forward, my goal is to build a computational biology research program that investigates human cells across healthy and diseased adult tissue samples, and which tests hypotheses surrounding how genetic disease risk may be explained by fine-mapping genetic variation to tissue structures.
Björn Eriksson, Department of Chemical Engineering
Arvid Lobato Berg, Department of Biomedical Engineering and Health Systems
My name is Arvid Lobato Berg and I am a lecturer in chemistry and mathematics at the Division of Basic Science Education, where I teach courses for the Foundation Year Programme.
One thing I appreciate about this is that I get to work closely with the students and with relatively small groups. I believe that such an environment, where students and teachers have time to build mutual trust, is a success factor for learning. If you have a good relationship with your teacher, the subject itself becomes more interesting.
The Foundation Year Programme then becomes a nice bridge between secondary school and further studies at KTH. In addition to teaching, I have also conducted some research on how visualisations, such as images and various types of models, can be used in chemistry and biology teaching.
