Magnus Friberg

Senior Advisor at Sunet

Speaker

Magnus is currently working as a senior advisor to the EU funded projects Polar Connect step 1, Polar Connect Step 2. He is also member of the team developing the Swedish 6G IMT Agenda.

Magnus’ research background is to develop methods for geophysical

exploration and to apply geophysical methods for basic research real-life issues such as nuclear waste management, geothermal energy, brown field remediation and archaeology. He hs 20 years of experience in the large-scale research infrastructures business and has represented Sweden and VR in European and international organizations. Among others, Magnus is or has been the Swedish representative to the EuroHPC Joint Undertaking, the Environmental working group in

European Strategy Forum for Research Infrastructures (ESFRI EnvSWG) and national expert to Horizon Europe Cluster 5 on Climate, Energy and Mobility.

Magnus has also had the role of setting up national and international research infrastructures and programmes such as the Swedish AI-factory, EISCAT-3D Space radar, Integrated Carbon Observatory System (ICOS-ERIC) and JPI-Climate. He has also been chair of the European Consortium for Ocean Drilling and has been Sweden’s head of delegation to Arctic and Antarctic research and policy making organizations.