Lennart Edblom is Senior Lecturer and deputy head of the Department of Computing Science at Umeå University His experiences include numerous years of academic leadership and organization. He was head of the department from 1999-2008, and has been deputy head since 2009. He has extensive management and budget experience, both as department head, and as a coordinator of several research projects. He is administrative coordinator of the FP7-PEOPLE-ITN project INTRO and the FP7-ICT project SPACEBOOK. He has also been teaching many different courses in Computer Science during his long career.

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Location:Umeå, Sweden (700 kilometres north of Stockholm)
Hobbies: Playing floorball, reading theology, looking at sports on TV.
Passionate about: My fiancée, and J.R.R. Tolkien, the fellowship of the Ring.