I graduated from the veterinary program at SLU in 2003. After working for a while in the clinical field, I decided to join a PhD program within an EU project aimed at producing artificial spider silk for medical applications. It all began with me putting on adventure gear and heading to South Africa to catch 100 spiders in the wild. Since then, I’ve been captivated by this fascinating and impressive material—and, of course, by the spiders that manage to create it.
In 2007, I earned my PhD. Shortly afterward, we founded Spiber Technologies AB, and I served as CEO of the company from its inception in 2008 until 2012. Since then, I have led a research group at both SLU and Karolinska Institutet. Between 2015 and 2020, I was a member of the Young Academy of Sweden. Since 2018, I have been a professor of Veterinary Medical Biochemistry at SLU and a senior researcher at Karolinska Institutet. As of 2024, I am also a Wallenberg Scholar.