Alf Månsson's Biography

Alf Månsson, Professor, Linnaeus University and Lund University Sweden

Alf Månsson is Professor of Physiology at Linnaeus University and affiliate member of the Nano-Lund research center at Lund University. He is an expert on myosin motor proteins and actin filaments of muscle, studying their functional properties using a range of biophysical techniques and modeling. He is also using these proteins in nanotechnological applications, from materials characterization, over biosensing to biocomputation. Dr. Månsson leads a small research team at Linnaeus University and has co-founded two start-up companies. He has published more than 70 peer-reviewed papers, given 15 invited presentations and been awarded 3 patents in nanobiotechnology.