Martin Nilsson Jacobi to become Chalmers’ new president
The Board of Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden, has appointed Martin Nilsson Jacobi, currently CEO of the Chalmers Foundation, as the new president and CEO of the university. He succeeds Stefan Bengtsson, who has been president for eight years. Jacobi has been the CEO of the Chalmers University of Technology Foundation since 2020. Based in Gothenburg, he is a professor of complex systems with a background in theoretical physics. He is 50 years old and publicly defended his doctoral thesis at Chalmers in 2000. Jacobi has held several leading positions in academia during