Organisation
The department is led by the Head of Department, who has the overall financial and organisational responsibility, and is also the Head of the Department Board. The Board decides on major matters concerning finances, teaching and organisation.
Below you can read more about how the department is organized. If you are employed at the Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics (DBB), you will find more information about our organization on the intranet.
For contact information, please see Contact.
Department Management
Head of Department
Martin Högbom, Professor in Biochemistry
Deputy Head of Department
Christian Broberger, Professor in Neurochemistry
Associate Head of Department with responsibility for undergraduate studies
Daniel Daley, Professor in Biochemistry
Associate Head of Department with responsibility for SciLifeLab
Arne Elofsson, Professor in Bioinformatics
Head of Administration
Madeleine Hellzén
Department Board
The Department Board decides on major matters concerning finances, teaching and organisation. The Board meets approximately once per month and is elected every three years.
The Department Board consists of:
- Head of Department
- Deputy Head of Department
- 9 representatives from the teaching staff
- 2 representatives from the T/A-staff
- 4 student representatives
- 4 alternate members from the teaching staff
- 1 alternat member from the T/A staff
Working Groups
The department has a number of working groups that are active in different areas: Steering Group, Work environment and environment (contact person: Liselotte Antonsson), Equality and equal treatment (contact person: Anna Forsby), Premises, Infrastructure, IT, Visibility, Procurement, PhD studies and Recruitment. These working groups consist of representatives from the department.
If you're employed at DBB, you can find more details about our working groups on our Intranet.
Research groups
At present, around 30 research groups are active at the department. They do research in biochemistry, biochemistry with a focus on bioinformatics, biophysics, cell biology and neurochemistry. The research is often conducted in collaboration with other research groups both nationally and internationally.
The PhD Student Council
The PhD student council represents the doctoral students, who work at DBB, in meetings with DBB's board and in working groups.
On our intranet you can read more about the PhD student council
SciLifeLab
SciLifeLab is a Swedish national scientific center for large-scale research in life sciences, medicine and the environment. SciLifeLab was started in 2010 jointly by the four universities Karolinska Institutet, KTH, Stockholm University and Uppsala University. In 2013, SciLifeLab was designated a national research infrastructure and today SciLifeLab has operations at most major Swedish universities.
As a national research infrastructure, SciLifeLab's mission is to make advanced technology and expertise available to researchers from universities and colleges as well as other research practitioners throughout Sweden.
DBB makes up the majority of Stockholm University's part of the Science for Life Laboratory. Here, the department conducts research in biochemistry, bioinformatics, cryo-EM, pharmaceuticals, medicinal chemistry and DNA sequencing.
The National Research Center For Chemistry Teachers - KRC
The National Research Center For Chemistry Teachers (KRC) is an initiative of the Swedish Ministry of Education and Research, and Stockholm University. KRC supports chemistry teachers throughout primary and secondary school with the aim of promoting a stimulating, interesting and current teaching. The resource centre is also involved in developing the experiments that will be included in the material packages.
The National Research Center for Chemistry Teachers - KRC (the page is in Swedish)
Last updated: April 1, 2025
Source: DBB
