Erik Birgersson

Erik BIRGERSSON is an associate professor with tenure at the Department of Mechanical Engineering at the National University of Singapore. He specializes in mathematical modelling and transport phenomena. He has published around 90 journal papers, 1 book and 5 book chapters with an h-index of 21 (Google Scholar; accessed July 2017) and a field-weighted citation index of 1.92 (Scival, 2003-2016; accessed July 2017).

As a consultant for Innosparks Pte Ltd., he helped design the Air+ smart mask, which has won awards such as the President’s Design Award 2015, the Reader’s and Editor’s Choice for the Most Innovative Product at the Straits Times Digital Awards 2016 and one of the Top 50 Engineering Feats Award in Singapore 2016. Besides research, he enjoys teaching and has been awarded 17 teaching awards in NUS since 2006.

Qualification

Abitur and studentexamen at the German-Swedish Bilingual School, Stockholm in 1992. Furir, arctic rangers in K4 Arvidsjaur, in 1994. He was awarded his Ph.D. in Fluid Mechanics from the Royal Institute of Technology (KTH), Stockholm, in 2004. He also has a MS degree in Chemical Engineering (1998) and a Licentiate degree (2003) in Fluid Mechanics from KTH.

Education

• Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) KTH Royal Institute of Technology (1998 — 2004)
• Licentiate degree KTH Royal Institute of Technology (2003 — 2003)
• Master's Degree KTH Royal Institute of Technology (1992 — 1998)
• High School German-Swedish bilingual school, Stockholm (Sweden) (1979 — 1992)

Companies

• Director, Engineering Science Programme National University of Singapore (2021)
• Associate Professor with tenure (Mechanical Engineering) National University of Singapore (2017)
• Adjunct Faculty Solar Energy Research Institute of Singapore (2009)
• Consultant Innosparks Pte Ltd (2015 — 2017)
• Associate Professor with tenure (Chemical Engineering) National University of Singapore (2015 — 2016)
• Associate (Engineering Science Programme) National University of Singapore (2006 — 2016)
• Consultant Singapore Technologies Kinetics (2013 — 2014)
• Assistant Professor (Chemical Engineering) National University of Singapore (2006 — 2014)
• Research Engineer A*STAR - Agency for Science, Technology and Research (2005 — 2006)

Skills

• Statistics
• Programming
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Other

University Teaching, Science, Numerical Analysis, LaTeX, Mathematical Modeling, Research, Matlab, Simulations

Selected Publications

• E. Birgersson, M. Noponen and M. Vynnycky, “Analysis of a two-phase non-isothermal model for a PEFC”, Journal of the Electrochemical Society, 152, A1021 (2005).
• E. Birgersson, H. Li, S. Wu, “Transient analysis of temperature-sensitive neutral hydrogels”, Journal of the Mechanics and Physics of Solids, 56, 444 (2007).
• U Birgersson, E Birgersson, P Åberg, I Nicander, S Ollmar, “Non-invasive bioimpedance of intact skin: mathematical modeling and experiments”, Physiological measurement 32 (1), 1 (2010).
• K Somasundaram, E Birgersson, AS Mujumdar, “Analysis of a model for an electrochemical capacitor”, Journal of The Electrochemical Society 158 (11), A1220-A1230 (2011).
• K Somasundaram, E Birgersson, AS Mujumdar, “Thermal–electrochemical model for passive thermal management of a spiral-wound lithium-ion battery”, Journal of Power Sources 203, 84-96 (2012).
• T Zhang, E Birgersson, J Luther, “A spatially smoothed device model for organic bulk heterojunction solar cells”, Journal of Applied Physics 113 (17), 174505 (2013).
• E Birgersson, EH Tang, WLJ Lee, KJ Sak, “Reduction of carbon dioxide in filtering facepiece respirators with an active-venting system: A computational study”, PloS one 10 (6), e0130306 (2015).