I am a senior associate professor in psychology at Linköping University, Department of Behavioral Sciences and Learning, and one of the founders and leading senior researcher of the International Network for Well-Being, which is a network of junior and senior researchers and students interested in the Science of Well-Being. Together with the Anthropedia Foundation I have developed and tested well-being and resilience interventions among different populations (e.g., asylum seekers, long-term unemployed, newly graduated nurses, high school students).
Together with Professors C. Robert Cloninger (Washington University in St. Louis School of Medicine) and Henrik Anckarsäter (Center of Ethics, Law and Mental Health, University of Gothenburg) I have, for example, investigated the role of genes on personality and their effect on well-being, resilience, neuropsychiatric disorders, and both dysfunction and suffering in daily life.
Together with Professor Sverker Sikström (Lund University), I have developed research using Artificial Intelligence to quantify a person’s written apprehension of life events, life narrative, identity, social network interactions, and own reflections about life. We have been using this method to also define concepts (e.g., the semantic content of words people uses to describe, for example, “happiness", “well-being” or “who they are”) and to validate measures by mapping people’s narratives and words to their own responses to common scales (i.e., Quantitative Semantics Test Theory).
For more than 10 years I have been the Head of Research of the Promotion of Health and Innovation (PHI) Lab at the International Network for Well-Being. The people at the PHI-Lab work on innovations in public health and clinical practice through interdisciplinary scientific research, community and international projects, and the dissemination of knowledge in order to increase people’s quality of life, resilience and health when facing the current and future challenges of the 21st century. This work includes collaborations with municipalities, as well as collaboration with national (e.g., Lund University, University of Gothenburg, Linnaeus University) and international universities (e.g., Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, Yale University, La Sapienza University of Rome, University of Alicante, University of Trás-os-Montes and Alto Douro, University of Nigeria, Keio University).
