My group's research aims to solve clinical problems through improved laboratory diagnostics. We use imaging flow cytometry - a technique combining flow cytometry and fluorescence microscopy - as our main tool, enabling quantitative morphological analysis of thousands of cells in flow. The technique is applied to blood samples from different patient groups where there is a clinical need for faster, more objective diagnostics or detailed information about cell populations and their interactions.
I'm a resident physician in clinical chemistry at Region Östergötland and since 2015 associate professor in medical microbiology. In my doctoral work I studied mycobacterial survival mechanisms inside innate immune cells. After defending my thesis at LiU in 2011, I did a postdoc at the Sahlgrenska Academy focusing on human neutrophil subpopulations, followed by a postdoc at the University of Zürich funded by the Swedish Research Council, where I used an amoeba model to study intracellular bacterial infections. In 2019 I returned to Linköping University as a principal investigator, in recent years combined with clinical work, and I was appointed an associated clinical WCMM fellow in 2025.