Maria Barklund & Petter Barreng

Maria Barklund & Petter Barreng

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    Maria Barklund & Petter Barreng

Management & Co-Founders

Maria Barklund, CEO & Co-founder

  • B.Sc. Mechanical Engineering, M.Sc. Entrepreneurship and Business Design, Chalmers University of Technology and Chalmers School of Entrepreneurship. Business Administration at School of Business, Economics and Law (GU). Scholarship from IDEA League Challenge Program 2019-2020, program for 25 European students selected for their academic performance.

Petter Barreng, CTO & Co-founder

  • B.Sc. Electrical Engineering, M.Sc. Entrepreneurship and Business Design, Chalmers University of Technology and Chalmers School of Entrepreneurship. Former elite sailor 2011-2017, competed in Olympic classes Laser and Nacra17, and match racing, windsurfing and OCRi. 6 SM medals and participated in several international competitions.

Complete Founding Team

Aldo Jesorka, Inventor & Co-founder

  • Professor in Chemistry, Physical Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Chalmers University of Technology. Previous founder and inventor of Fluicell (IPO).

Teresa Zardán Gómez de la Torre, Inventor & Co-founder

  • Assistant Professor in Nanotechnology, Uppsala University. PhD “Detection of biomolecules using volume-amplified magnetic nanobeads”.

Maria Strömme, Inventor & Co-founder

  • Professor in Nanotechnology, Uppsala University. Founder of Disruptive Materials, Board Member of Industrifonden and several national and international research councils. Awarded with the Gold Medal from the Royal Swedish Academy of Engineering Sciences, Swedish Woman of the Year by SWEA International, the innovation award Hjärnäpplet and the Learning Ladder Prize.

Sobhan Sepehri, Inventor & Co-founder

  • PhD in Microtechnology and Nanoscience, Chalmers University of Technology. Current researcher at RISE within digital systems, smart hardware, sensors and materials.

Dag Winkler, Inventor & Co-founder

  • Professor in Microtechnology and Nanoscience, Chalmers University of Technology. Previous research associate at Yale University (88-90) head of Quantum Device Physics Laboratory (06-07) and head of the Department of Microtechnology and Nanoscience at Chalmers (07-16).