Presentation Title: The Green Transition of the steel industry in Sweden – state of the art

Dr Pontus Sjöberg is currently the CEO of the Swedish research institute Swerim AB which covers research for the whole value chain for metals from mining to final product including the understanding of the correlation between material structure and material properties throughout the value chain. Pontus took his PhD in stainless steelmaking at the Department of Process Metallurgy at Royal Institute of Technology (KTH), Stockholm, Sweden. After this Pontus spent one year as post doc at the Institute of Advance Material Processing, Sendai, Japan. At the end of his employment at KTH, Pontus was acting professor for one year at the Department of Process Metallurgy.  Pontus has worked as a technical secretary in metallurgy at the Swedish Iron Masters Association (Jernkontoret), which included coordination of steel research between industry, research institutes and universities in the Nordic countries. Pontus has been production director at “Primary Products at Alleima AB, where he was responsible for the steelmaking, hot rolling and finishing parts in Sandviken, Sweden. Thereafter Pontus was production director for slabs production at SSAB in Oxelösund where he was responsible for coke making, blast furnaces and steel shop. Before taking his position as CEO of Swerim, Pontus was production director at Vitkovice Steel in Ostrava, Czech Republic which included a steel shop, a heavy plate rolling mill, a rolling mill for sheet piles and finishing facilities.