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Bertil Andersson FAA FIC is the third President of Nanyang Technological University (NTU). He assumed the appointment on 1 July 2011 and was inaugurated on 25 July 2011. Andersson received his BSc and MSc at Umeå University, Sweden, and his PhD and DSc at Lund University, Sweden.〔(In the company of Nobel laureates: Professor Bertil Andersson )〕 He started his research career at Lund University, after which he became a Professor of Biochemistry at Stockholm University, Sweden, in 1986.〔 From 1996 to 1999, he served as the Dean of the Faculty of Chemical Sciences at Stockholm University.〔 In 1999, Andersson became the Rector (President) of Linköping University, Sweden, where he served until the end of 2003.〔 From 2004 to 2007, he led the European Science Foundation in Strasbourg, France, as its Chief Executive. From April 2007 to June 2011, Andersson served as Provost of NTU in Singapore. Having strengthened NTU’s reputation as one of the fastest-growing research-intensive universities in the world, he was appointed President of NTU on 1 July 2011. ==Research and teaching== Andersson is a plant biochemist and the author of over 300 papers in photosynthesis research, biological membranes, protein and membrane purification and light stress in plants. He has pioneered research on the artificial leaf, a promising area of sustainable energy research that uses sunlight to produce clean, low-cost sources of energy. Sustainability is one of NTU’s five strategic areas under its NTU 2015 plan, supported by more than S$830 million in research funding. Andersson holds honorary doctorates from several universities, the most recent of which are Hebrew University of Jerusalem, the University of New South Wales and Symbiosis International University. He continues to hold academic appointments as Professor of Biochemistry at Linköping University and Adjunct Professor at Umeå University.〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Bertil Andersson」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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