Prof Hans-Olof Blom

Hans-Olof is a Professor Emeritus at the Department of Electrical Engineering, Uppsala University, Sweden. He specialised in plasma etching, a form of plasma processing used to fabricate integrated circuits. Plasma etching is an essential tool in today’s world, enabling many of the technologies used in for example sensor, aerospace and automotive technology. He is a co-author of more than 75 scientific articles in international peer-reviewed journals and formerly a visiting scientist at TEGAL Corp, USA. Moreover, he has received several awards and grants from various funding agencies including The Swedish Research Council and EU. Today his wider research interest concerns cooling of battery packs for electric vehicles and fabrication of parts for nano-satellite motors. Hans-Olof has his own consultancy practice.