Senior advisors to the president with different areas of responsibility

Magnus Breitholtz, sustainability and external relations

Professor Magnus Breitholtz, as Senior advisor to the president has operational responsibility for the environment and sustainable development.

Outside of Stockholm University, this involves working for increased collaboration with different types of partners as well as, at the request of the President, to represent Stockholm University in meetings or work processes related to the environment and sustainable development. Examples of such collaborations are the Stockholm Trio for Sustainable Actions, a new initiative from Karolinska Institutet, KTH – Royal Institute of Technology, and Stockholm University to further contribute to sustainable societal development, and Civis – European Civic University Alliance, which is a collaboration between ten European universities, including Stockholm university.

Within the University, this involves contributing to the University's development in the area and working to raise the University's commitment and profile towards the surrounding society. In addition, the Senior advisor to the President is to chair and lead the University's Environmental Council, maintain a dialogue with the University management and represent the environmental commitments in the contexts in which the University's core activities operate.

Henrik Cederquist, research infrastructure

Professor Henrik Cederquist is responsible for research infrastructure at Stockholm University.
The assignment involves advising the President and the University Senior Management Team on infrastructure-related issues, as well as leading the coordination of research infrastructure work at Stockholm University.

The role also includes representing the university in various infrastructure contexts – for example, as Stockholm University´s representative in the University Reference Group for Research Infrastructure (URFI), and in the Stockholm Trio's infrastructure group.

As Chair of the university’s recently established Council for Research Infrastructure, the senior advisor to the President leads the coordination, development, and follow-up of the university’s research infrastructure work by promoting efficient use of resources, knowledge dissemination, and strategic collaboration both within the university and with external stakeholders.