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Professor Ingela Nyström's research interest is interactive segmentation, visualization, digital geometry, and quantitative shape analysis of volume images with their medical applications. The career has developed from her background with a MSc degree in applied computer science and mathematics, and the PhD degree in computerised image analysis from Uppsala University, Sweden, in 1991, and in 1997, respectively.
She has held a number of leadership positions, for example, forming the Division of Visual Information and Interaction at the Dept. of Information Technology, UU, during 2012-2018. For 12 years until 2022, she was the Director of the Centre for Image Analysis. During 2006-2011, she was the Director of the Uppsala high-performance computer centre SNIC-UPPMAX and during 2011-2015 Coordinator of eSSENCE, a joint strategic effort in e-Science by Lund University, Umeå University, and Uppsala University.
In addition, she has served on a number of committees and organisations - at the University, nationally, and internationally. One example is that she was board member of the Faculty of Science of Technology, Uppsala University during 2011-2014. Early in her career in 2000, she was elected board member (President 2002-2006) of the Swedish Society for Automated Image Analysis (SSBA) and continued to serve in the board until 2012. During 2008-2018, she served as member of the Executive Committee (2nd Vice-President 2008-2010, Secretary 2010-2014, President 2014-2016, Past President 2016-2018) of the International Association of Pattern Recognition (IAPR). She was Vice-Chair of the Swedish Council for Research Infrastructure (RFI), Vetenskapsrådet, during 2014-2019. and Chair of the Board of the Swedish National Infrastructure for Computing (SNIC) during 2020-2022. Currently, she is member of the Board of Directors of the Norwegian Sigma2 as well as Medtech4Health.