10 April 2025

Jensen Huang, CEO of the electronics company Nvidia, will become an honorary doctor at Linköping University. So will Riksdag Speaker Andreas Norlén and the international researchers Angela Woods and Gillian Einstein. They will all be awarded their honorary doctorates at LiU’s Academic Ceremony in May.

Portrait of Jensen Huang
Jensen Huang, CEO of Nvidia. Photographer: Nvidia

Jensen Huang will be awarded an Honorary Doctorate in Technology for his pioneering work in the development of GPUs. These currently form the technical basis for AI development. In 1993, Jensen Huang founded the American electronics company Nvidia, which initially focused on computer graphics but quickly became a leader in the development of some of the world’s most advanced technologies. Under his leadership, Nvidia has become a key player in the AI-driven industrial revolution. Nvidia’s GPUs are used in Berzelius, a supercomputer for AI and machine learning, located at the National Supercomputing Centre (NSC) at LiU.

Speaker and popular educator

Portrait of Andreas Norlén.
Andreas Norlén, Speaker of the Swedish Parliament. Photographer: Melker Dahlstrand/Sveriges riksdag
Andreas Norlén, Speaker of the Swedish Parliament, will be awarded an Honorary Doctorate in Philosophy from the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, in recognition of his contributions to society, his commitment to democracy and humanism and his popular education efforts in history and literature. Andreas Norlén was elected Speaker in 2018 and has played an active and successful role in difficult government formations. Last year he published the book Talmannens guide till svensk poesi. He has studied commercial and business law at Linköping University and was named Alumnus of the Year in 2019.

Interdisciplinary research

Portrait of Angela Woods.
Angela Woods, professor at Durham University.Photographer: Marie Etchegoyen
Angela Woods will also be awarded an Honorary Doctorate from the Faculty of Arts and Sciences and is recognised for her work in the medical humanities. She is a professor of this subject and director of one of the world’s largest medical humanities institutes, the Institute for Medical Humanities at Durham University in the UK. For several years now, she has collaborated with the Centre for Medical Humanities and Bioethics at LiU, which has resulted in a joint research school and a vibrant visiting researcher exchange.

Gillian Einstein will be awarded an Honorary Doctorate from the Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences for her work in medical gender research. She is a professor of psychology at the University of Toronto in Canada and has been a visiting professor at LiU for many years. She was first affiliated with the Department of Clinical and Experimental Medicine at the Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, and then with the Department of Gender Studies at the Faculty of Arts and Sciences.

Portrait of Gillian Einstein
Gillian Einstein, professor at the University of Toronto.Photographer: Louis Bachrach
As a visiting professor, she has led trans-scientific research on cognition and other functions in women who have had their ovaries removed to prevent cancer.

Open lectures

The honorary doctorates will be awarded at the Academic Ceremony, which will be held on 24 May in Norrköping. The recipients will each give an honorary doctor’s lecture open to the public. Dates and venues will be published on liu.se.

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