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Place of Birth: Linköping, Östergötland County, Sweden
About Ulf Ellervik
- Ulf Ellervik (born 7 December 1969) is a Swedish professor of bioorganic chemistry at Lund University.
- Ellervik's main research area is carbohydrates, such as eye drops against the viral disease epidemic keratoconjunctivitis and the carbohydrate xylose as the cure for cancer.
- Ellervik received his undergraduate training at the Faculty of Engineering (LTH) where he started in 1989.
- He graduated as M.Sc.
- in Chemical Engineering in 1993 and began research in organic chemistry in 1994.
- After presenting his thesis in October 1998 he spent almost two years working at California Institute of Technology as a post-doctoral fellow.
- From Caltech he went back to Lund University where he now holds a position as professor.
- Ellervik has received prizes from the student association as well as academic prizes.
- In 2006 he received the degree of Excellent Teaching Practice (ETP) and in 2009 he was promoted to professor.Ellervik regularly writes popular articles for journals, magazines and newspapers.
- His most recent articles deal with the seven deadly sins from a chemical perspective.
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