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Department of Information Technology

Responsibility groups

These groups are responsible for managing daily operations at the department.

Ledningsgruppen (LG: management group)

The management group handles daily management and execution of the board´s decisions. Members of the board are: Head of the department, Heads of the divisions, Head of Education, the Head of Research, Public Relation Officer, Economist, Personnel Administrator and co-coordinators for the administrative group and the system support group. The manage group has meetings every week.

Members of the Management Group:

Studierektorsgruppen (SR group: Directors of undergraduate studies)

Studierektorsgruppen consists of the Directors of undergraduate studies, subject coordinators and the Head of Education. The group manages current and long-term education matters and prepares matters on behalf of the steering group, the Head of Department and / or the Board.

Members of the SR group:

  • Tobias Wrigstad, Head of Education (chair)
  • Hans Karlsson, subject coordinator
  • Pontus Ekberg, Director of undergraduate studies, Division of Computer Systems
  • Tjark Weber Director of undergraduate studies, Division of Computing Science, spec. quality in education
  • Filip Malmberg, Director of undergraduate studies, Division of Systems and Control, spec. staffing
  • Jarmo Rantakokko and Stefan Pålsson, Director of undergraduate studies, Division of Scientific Computing, spec. pedagogical development
  • Vacant, spec. recruitment

Gruppen för Programansvariga Professorer (PAP group: research-programme directors)

The PAP group consists of the professors in charge of directing the research programmes at the department. The group’s main purpose is to coordinate the joint strategic efforts to develop the research at the department. This entails discussing proposals based on feedback from the department’s divisions on how faculty funds that are not specifically bound to a research program are to be distributed and used. The group may also be commissioned to manage other general research issues. Chair of the PAP group is the Head of Research (forskningsprefekt).

Members of the PAP group:

  • Parosh Abdulla, professor and programme director for the programme in Computer Systems
  • Mats Daniels professor and programme director for the programme in Computing Education Research
  • Pierre Flener, Head of Research, professor and programme director for the programme in Computing Science (chair)
  • Gunilla Kreiss, professor and programme director for the programme in Numerical Analysis
  • Elisabeth Larsson, professor and programme director for the programme in Computational Science
  • Alexander Medvedev, professor and programme director for the programme in Automatic Control
  • Christian Rohner, professor and programme director for the programme in Computer Architecture and Communication Systems
  • Thomas Schön professor and programme director for the programme in Artificial Intelligence
  • Carolina Wählby, professor and programme director for the programme in Image Analysis and Human-Computer Interaction

Gruppen för Forskarutbildningsansvariga Professorer (FUAP group: PhD-programme directors)

For each PhD program, there is a professor appointed by the faculty board, who is responsible for the overall quality of the PhD program including PhD courses offered and dissertations produced as well as the development of the subject area in collaboration with other professors in the subject area. Chair of the group is the Director of PhD Studies (FUS = forskarutbildningsstudierektor).

Members of the FUAP group:

Lika villkorsgruppen (Equal Opportunities Group)

The members of the Equal Opportunities Group are assigned to work as a drafting committee in matters regarding gender equality, for example follow and evaluate the equality work, suggest equality efforts and also plan and realise equality projects. Furthermore, the group members have a task of respectively informing their divisions/equivalent and Heads of Divisions/equivalent about the groups work.

Group members:
Mandate for staff ends 2025-05-31.
Please see the groups web page for information about the group members.

Studievägledargruppen (Student Counsellors Group)

The student counsellors handle current matters and long-term planning regarding support and administration concerning students. The group handles coordination between the department's student counselling, the programme student counselling and the Student Office, and also collaborations with external resources and administrative units regarding the handling of student matters.

Group members:

(See also the Student Counsellors's web page for more information about Student Counselling.)

The Work Environment Group (Arbetsmiljögruppen)

The Work Environment Group prepare and follow up the Action Plan for the Work Environment and is responsible for safety inspections. The group meets 3 times a year.

Group members:

The Crisis and Crisis Support Group (Krisberedskapsgruppen)

The Crisis and Crisis Support Group produces and updates guidelines and checklists, as well as acting when the need of crisis arises. The group holds meetings 1-2 times per year.

Crisis panel's members:

See The Crisis and Crisis Support Group homepage for more information.

Valberedning (Election Committee)

The Election Committee's task is to, by direction of the steering group and the board, suggest nominees for different groups.

Election committee 220901-250831 :
For committee members see Swedish page.

Updated  2024-03-28 08:11:42 by Ingela Nyström.