Curriculum Vitae

NAME: Pierre Gander
DATE OF BIRTH: 25 June 1971
GENDER: Male
NATIONALITY: Swedish
MARITAL STATUS: Unmarried
ADDRESS: Mölndalsvägen 39, S-412 63 Göteborg, Sweden
TELEPHONE: +46 (0)31 431258, +46 (0)70-2980377 (mobile)
E-MAIL: pierregander (at) hotmail.com

Education

2005 PhD in Cognitive Science from Lund University, Sweden
1996 MSc, University of Skövde, Sweden.
Masters thesis: "The Role of Human Visual Signals in Collaboration" (in the field of Cognitive Science/Communication)
1993 Swedish Military Service, Gävle, Sweden
1992 Computer Science Programme, Stockholm University, Sweden
Graduate thesis: "Approaches to Lexical Acquisition: A Comparative Study" (in the field of Artificial Intelligence/Natural Language Processing)

Work experience

Jul. 2006 - Lecturer ("lektor") in informatics, Dept. for Economics and Informatics, University West. (Full time: 75% teaching, 25% research)
Jan. 2001 - Jun. 2006 Teaching in cognitive science at SSKKII, Göteborg University: Planning and lecturing on courses at A, B, and C level. Supervision of BSc and MSc theses. Student counselling.
2002-2006 Planning and lecturing on course Communication and communication technology at Dept. of Linguistics, Göteborg University
Mar. 2002 - Sept. 2004 Full time employment at Lund University Cognitive Science as PhD student ('doktorandtjänst')
Nov. 2003 In the organising committe of The 10th Nordic Intercultural Communication Symposium 2003, Göteborg University
Sept. 2001 - Participate in a research project about colour and language lead by professor Jens Allwood at SSKKII, Göteborg University
Oct. 2001 - Jan 2002 Organiser of the National Annual Conference of Cognitive Science Education at SSKKII, Göteborg University
Dec. 2001 Four lectures for the public on the Popular Science Week (Vetenskapsfestivalen) (national event), arranged by Vetenskapsrådet, Sweden
May 2001 Digital sound consulting for Färgmiljörådet i Göteborg AB, Sweden
Sept. 2000 - Dec. 2000 Planning and lecturing on a course in human-computer interaction at the Dept. of Psychology, Göteborg University, Sweden.
May 1999 - Jan. 2000 Half-time employment at Lund University Cognitive Science at Lund University, Sweden.
Sept. 1998 & Jan. 1999 Guest teacher in user interface design during two days at a multimedia education, on two occasions, at Promillennium AB, Falköping, Sweden.
Dec. 1997 Invited lecturer to The Future of Design at the University of Halmstad, Sweden, arranged among others by Svensk Industridesign.
Sept. 1996 - Jan. 1999 University of Skövde: Full-time employment. Planning of, responsibility for, and lecturer on courses in man-machine interaction and cognitive science, and supervising of final year projects in cognitive science.
1995 - 1996 University of Skövde, Sweden: Part-time assistant on courses in man-machine interaction and cognitive science.
1987 - 1993 Various jobs during summer vacations (all in Sweden): Retro Tryck AB (1987), Statens Järnvägar (1988), Hewlett-Packard (1989, 1990), Goodyear (1992), Riksförsäkringsverket (1993).

Publications

See separate list of publications and conference presentations

Activities, responsibilities, and other skills

My hobbies include playing badminton, cooking Thai food, playing African drums, and composing music. In 2001 the band I'm in released its first CD album. I maintain several Internet websites with unique content about music technology (http://www.pierregander.com/typhoon/ and http://www.pierregander.com/bit/). I am co-founder of Kognitionsgruppen, a discussion club at the University of Skövde, with which I organised a national cognition research meeting in 1996. I am excellent at writing and speaking Swedish and English. I have a driving licence.

References

Peter Gärdenfors, professor, Lund University Cognitive Science, Lund University, Sweden. Phone: +46 (0)46 222 48 17

Jens Allwood, professor, Department of Linguistics, Göteborg University, Sweden. Phone: +46 (0)31 773 18 76