Jan Snellman
Associate Professor, Docent
CV
PhD studies
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I was a PhD student at Stockholm University under the supervision of Jörgen Backelin. I was also advised and tutored by Jan-Erik Roos and Ralf Fröberg.
Other professors that helped broaden my horizons were Clas Löfwall and Torsten Ekedahl. - Fellow PhD-students in the commutative algebra group were Emil Sköldberg, Kristina Crona, and Freyja Hreinsdóttir.
- I shared office with fellow PhD-students Ozan Öktem and Leif Johansson, and took many courses together with them and Andreas Nilsson and Erik Backelin.
- I graduated in february 1998, with the thesis A graded subring of an inverse limit of polynomial rings. In brief, my thesis is about Gröbner bases of generic ideals, in “the ring of generalized polynomials”. I studied how initial ideals of sequences of ideals in polynomial rings with ever more variables stabilizes.
Work at the “radio facility”
Before finishing my PhD I worked for about a year at a goverment agency doing cryptography. I have, sadly, forgotten most of what I learned there.
Post-doc
I was a post-doc at Laboratoire GAGE at Ecole Polytechnique, Palaiseau, Paris, France, from 1998-10-01 to 1999-09-01. I was funded by grants from Centre International des Etudiants et Stagiaires and Svenska Institutet. Laboratoire GAGE was a CNRS-funded “laboratory” with about 10 reserchers and 5 phd students. It has since been absorbed by Laboratoire X.
During the period 1999-10-11 to 2000-07-05 I was at the School of Informatics at the University of Wales, Bangor, supported by grants from KVA and Svenska Institutet. The school of Informatics has since then been dismantled.
I do not think it is more than a strange coincidence that every department where I was a post-doc has ceased to exist!
Temporary work at Linköping
The autumn of 2000, and the spring of 2001, and the first half of the autumn of 2001 I taught at the department of mathematics at Linköping University.
Research position at Stockholm
From the autumn of 2002 to the summer of 2005 I held a position as a “forskarassistent” at Stockholm University.
Permanent teaching position at Linköping
From october 2005 and onwards, I am an assistant professor (swedish “universitetslektor”) at Linköping.