Joakim Nejdeby

Chief Information Officer, Head of Division

Joakim Nejdeby is passionate about joining with students, teachers and researchers to develop digital solutions that enable cutting-edge education and research. The Digitalisation Division helps pave the way to this dynamic work.

Opportunities and challenges in IT

As Digitalisation Director (CIO/CDO) and head of the Digitalisation Division, Joakim Nejdeby is in charge of ensuring that Linköping University's various operations have the best IT solutions, given the university's objectives and resources.

The challenge Joakim Nejdeby enjoys most is the fast, continuous development that faces Linköping University and the IT sector as a whole. Solutions often exist today that didn’t exist six months ago. Together with his colleagues at the Digitalisation Division, Joakim Nejdeby finds it extremely rewarding to deliver these solutions to committed students, researchers and teachers.

At Linköping University, Joakim Nejdeby has worked with everything from systems administrator and systems developer to head of the Digitalisation Division in its various forms, and for four years as deputy head of University Services. The recurrent theme in all these roles has been to use IT to advance the university’s operations. The IT revolution of the past 15 years has given us smartphones and various cloud solutions that can completely change how teaching and research are conducted.

At Linköping University there is always something new to learn, always changes and improvements on the way.

CV and assignments

CV

2023 – Digitalisation Director (CIO/CDO) and head of Digitalisation Division
2012 – 2023 Chief information officer (CIO) and head of IT Division
2006 – 2012 Chief information officer (CIO)
2004 – 2006 Deputy head of University Services and head of IT Division
2000 – 2004 Linköping University, head of IT Office
1997 – 2000 Linköping University, UNIT, Systems administrator and head of Computer operations and Communications

External duties

Forum for Swedish university CIOs
Planning group ”IT”, Nordic Association of University Administrators (NUAS)

News

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Major AI investment - LiU contributes to competence programme

Microsoft is investing heavily in AI in Sweden, and Linköping University is contributing to the work of improving skills in the field.

University Directors' Management (UDL)

The university directors’ management group uses its expertise to support the vice-chancellor and the university director in an active manner as they lead and guide Linköping University.

University Services (UF)

Professional and appropriate administrative support is a fundamental requirement for Linköping University to achieve its goals. University Services (UF) supports the university’s principal operations: education, research and collaboration.

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Digitalisation Division (DIGIT)

A well-functioning IT environment is an element of everyday life for all our employees and students, and it is this function that our division provides, develops and manages.

About Linköping University

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About LiU

Linköping University, LiU, offers innovative education and boundary-crossing research. The students are among the most desirable in the labour market and international rankings consistently place LiU as a leading global university.