Auteur: Oivind Andersson

Dr Öivind Andersson is Assistant Professor in the Department of Energy Sciences at Lund Universitytransparent engines and works with optical measurements in transparent engines. His responsibilities include supervision of several Ph.D. students thus providing opportunities to reflect on how to develop their abilities as experimenters and he has developed and taught a faculty-common Ph.D. course on experimental methodology that partly forms the basis for the proposed book. Before joining Lund University he worked for seven years for the Volvo Car Corporation, both with optical and traditional engine experiments and his duties varied from product development to research tasks. He monitored several of the company”s research projects at universities, and was often engaged in discussions about how the outcome of the efforts invested in their experiments could be improved. In 2006 he received the Henry Ford European Technical Achievement Award, for development of a “Low Temperature Concept for Low Emission Diesel Engines”, with L. Jacobsson, J. Somhorst, and A. Lööf. He has authored and co-authored 20 scientific publications.