Organisation

The department is led by the Head of Department, who has the overall financial and organisational responsibility, and is also the Head of the Department Board. The Board decides on major matters concerning finances, teaching and organisation. The department has several active Working groups and a PhD council.

To the left is a concrete building behind branches and to the right is a corridor with a door at the end.

Photo: Ingmarie Andersson

Below you can read more about how the department is organized.

If you are employed at the Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics (DBB), you will find more information about our organization on the Intranet:

Intranet

For contact information, please see the Department's page:

Contact

Department Management

Head of Department

Daniel Daley, Professor of Biochemistry

Deputy Head of Department

Pia Ädelroth, Professor of Biochemistry 

Associate Head of Department with Responsibility for Undergraduate Studies

Pål Stenmark, Professor of Biochemistry

Associate Head of Department with Responsibility for SciLifeLab

Arne Elofsson, Professor of Bioinformatics

Head of Administration

Madeleine Hellzén

The Department Board decides on major matters concerning finances, teaching and organisation. The Board meets approximately once per month and is elected every three years.

The Department Board consists of:

  • Head of Department
  • Deputy Head of Department
  • 9 representatives from the teaching staff
  • 2 representatives from the T/A-staff
  • 4 student representatives
  • 4 alternate members from the teaching staff
  • 1 alternat member from the T/A staff

The department has a number of working groups that are active in different areas: Steering group, Work environment and environment (contact person: Liselotte Antonsson), Equality and equal treatment (contact person: Anna Forsby), Premises, Infrastructure, IT, Visibility, Procurement, PhD studies and Recruitment. These working groups consist of representatives from the department.

If you're employed at DBB, you can find more information about our working groups on our Intranet:

Intranet

At present, around 30 research groups are active at the department. They do research in biochemistry, biochemistry with a focus on bioinformatics, biophysics, cell biology and neurochemistry. The research is often conducted in collaboration with other research groups both nationally and internationally.

For more information about our research groups, please see the Department's page:

Research groups

The PhD student council represents the doctoral students, who work at DBB, in meetings with DBB's board and in working groups.

For more information about our PhD council, please see the Intranet:

Intranet

If you need support and/or advice regarding discrimination, harassment, sexual harassment or victimization please contact Work environment representative at the department, Louise Lehto. 

If you are an employee, please find more information on the Department’s Intranet:

Intranet 

If you are a student, please find more information at the University’s page:

Equal treatment of students

More information can also be found on the University’s Staff page:

Harassment, sexual harassment and victimization 

SciLifeLab

SciLifeLab is a Swedish national scientific center for large-scale research in life sciences, medicine and the environment. SciLifeLab was started in 2010 jointly by the four universities Karolinska Institutet, KTH, Stockholm University and Uppsala University. In 2013, SciLifeLab was designated a national research infrastructure and today SciLifeLab has operations at most major Swedish universities.

As a national research infrastructure, SciLifeLab's mission is to make advanced technology and expertise available to researchers from universities and colleges as well as other research practitioners throughout Sweden.

DBB makes up the majority of Stockholm University's part of the Science for Life Laboratory. Here, the department conducts research in biochemistry, bioinformatics, cryo-EM, pharmaceuticals, medicinal chemistry and DNA sequencing.

For more information, please see SciLifeLab's website:

SciLifeLab

The National Resource Center for Chemistry Teachers (KRC)

The National Resource Center For Chemistry Teachers (KRC) is an initiative of the Swedish Ministry of Education and Research, and Stockholm University. KRC supports chemistry teachers throughout primary and secondary school with the aim of promoting a stimulating, interesting and current teaching. The resource centre is also involved in developing the experiments that will be included in the material packages.

For more information, please see KRC's website:

The National Resource Center for Chemistry Teachers (KRC)

Last updated: 2025-11-10

Source: DBB

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