Gunnar Karlsson

Gunnar Karlsson is a Professor at KTH Royal Institute of Technology, specializing in teletraffic systems and network engineering. He has served as Head of the Department of Network and Systems Engineering until 2017 and currently engages in continuous education initiatives through Cybercampus Sweden and KTH Center for Total Defence. His academic background includes a PhD from Columbia University (1989) and MSc from Chalmers University of Technology (1983), with visiting professorships at EPFL and ETH Zurich.

• Research Interests: Mobile communication, Internet QoS, opportunistic networks, cybersecurity, and higher education pedagogy.
• Public Engagement: Active contributor to debates on university roles, technology's societal impact, and automation's consequences for work.
• Teaching: Involved in courses including Computer Networks, Data Communications, and Security Engineering, with focus on ethics and societal implications.
• Awards: Recipient of the KTH Pedagogic Prize (2015) for innovative teaching approaches.
• Leadership: Editor for IEEE Journal on Selected Areas of Communication; advocates for engineering's role in societal progress.