Anna Herland's Biography

Anna Herland, Assistant Professor, Department of Physiology and Pharmacology, Karolinska Institute

Dr. Anna Herland is a Wallenberg Academy Fellow Assistant Professor at the Department of Micro and Nanosystems, Royal Institute of Technology and Department of Physiology and Pharmacology, Karolinska Institute. She leads the group “In vitro neural systems” focussing on microphysiological systems, combining micro engineering and stem cell engineering. Before this, Dr. Herland was a Visiting Research Fellow in Professor Donald Ingber’s group at Harvard Medical School and the Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering of Harvard University and a Marie Curie Fellow and senior researcher at Karolinska Institute. This was preceded by a postdoc in stem cell engineering at Karolinska Institute with Professor Ana Teixeira. Dr. Herland has a Ph.D. in Biomolecular and Organic Electronics and M.Sc. degree in Engineering Biology from the Linköping University, Sweden.