Christina Moberg (born 1947) is a Swedish chemist who is a professor of Organic Chemistry at the KTH Royal Institute of Technology. She was elected an Honorary Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry in 2017. She has been president of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, has been elected as a fellow of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, the Royal Swedish Academy of Engineering Sciences, and was awarded the Göran Gustafsson Prize and the L'Ordre National de Merite.
Early life and education Moberg was born in Sweden. She attended Stockholm University for her graduate studies, where she studied chemistry and graduated in 1975. She completed her doctoral studies at the KTH Royal Institute of Technology. Her doctorate considered nickelocene, cobaltocene and cyclopentadienyl (tributylphosphine)-copper in organic synthesis. After earning her doctorate under the supervision of Professor Martin Nilsson, Moberg moved to the Pierre and Marie Curie University (then University of Paris 6), where she worked with Jean Normant. She returned to the KTH Royal Institute of Technology in 1967, joining the laboratory of Björn Åkermark.
Research and career In 1978, Moberg was appointed to the faculty at the KTH Royal Institute of Technology, where she was promoted to Full Professor in 1997. Her research considers organic synthesis. She is particularly interested in asymmetric synthesis and the creation of molecules with non-superimposable mirror symmetry.
Alongside her work in asymmetric synthesis, Moberg is interested in supramolecular chemistry. In an interview with the European Academies' Science Advisory Council (EASAC), Moberg explained “... if you think of atoms as letters, then molecules are words. A supra-molecule is a whole sentence, because it's made of separate molecules which interact”.
Awards and honours 1998 Elected to the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences 1998 Elected to the Royal Swedish Academy of Engineering Sciences 1998 Göran Gustafsson Prize "for her achievements in synthetic organic chemistry, particularly for the methods with which she succeeded in solving the problem of dangerous mirror forms of molecules" 1999 L'Ordre National de Merite 2001 University of Gothenburg Sixten Heyman 2006 Uppsala University Ulla och Stig Holmquist 2013 Elected to the Danish National Research Foundation 2015 Appointed President of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences 2016 Swedish royal family the King's Medal 2017 Elected an Honorary Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry 2017 Elected to the European Academy of Sciences and Arts 2018 Elected to the Academia Europaea 2020 Elected President of the European Academies' Science Advisory Council
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