Kent Andersson

Lieutenant Colonel

Senior Lecturer, Associate Professor

About Kent

Engelsk beskrivning om dig själv: Kent Andersson is Lieutenant Colonel in the Swedish Armed Forces and senior lecturer in Systems Science for Defence and Security.

His research interest is in systems for defence and security, particularly in the development of military capabilities and in methods for assessing the utility of technologies involved. He is currently also the co-supervisor of Karl Kindström-Andersson in his research project Concept of Operation and tactical Modelling for Tradespace Exploration, and of Jan Lundberg in his research project A Conceptual Framework for Design of Complex Systems of Systems. He is also the external supervisor of Travis Hallen in his research project The Swedish Model of Air Power: The Cold War Development of the Swedish Air Force.

Background
Kent Andersson holds a Ph.D. in military sciences from the National Defence University of Finland, a licentiate degree in material optics and a M.Sc. in engineering physics from Uppsala University. He has ten years of experience as a lecturer in military-technology and more than twenty years of experience as an officer in the Swedish armed forces, mainly from working with development of command and control systems supporting tactical and joint command levels, but lately from the position as chief scientist in the air staff.