Magnus Bergquist

Biography

Magnus Bergquist was born in 1960 in Kristianstad, Sweden. Thanks to his curiosity of fellow man, he studied ethnology and completed his PhD in 1996. Magnus Bergquist's research profile is interdisciplinary, which can be seen in his positions at the University of Gothenburg where he worked in humanities, IT, interdisciplinary cognitive science centre, as well as with architecture at Chalmers University of Technology. In 2002, he became a senior lecturer at the University of Gothenburg in European Ethnology and in 2007 in Informatics. Both positions were at the University of Gothenburg. Between 2008 and 2012, Magnus Bergquist was Vice-Dean at the IT Faculty, and between 2006 and 2015 he worked at the Department of Applied Information Technology at the university. He conducted research linked to the Victoria Institute from 1997 to 2006. Magnus worked from 2000 to 2002 at eCare, a start-up company that developed competence development systems for radiologists. Magnus Bergquist came to Halmstad University as a visiting researcher in 2013, where in 2015 he became Professor of Informatics and the same year Programme Director for Halmstad University’s Knowledge Foundation – Research for Innovation.

Research Interest

Architectural Characteristics; Remote Diagnostics Services; Legitimacy etc.