Mikael Elofsson's Biography

Mikael Elofsson, Professor/Associate Head, Umea University

Mikael Elofsson was born in 1965 and in 1990 he obtained a M.Sc. at the Lund Institute of Technology. He then carried out graduate studies at the Lund Institute of Technology with a thesis project on synthesis of glycosylated amino acids and glycopeptides. In 1996 he defended his thesis and then moved on for a postdoc at Yale University working primarily on proteasome inhibitors. In 1999 he was recruited to Umeå University and in 2008 he was appointed Professor.