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Carina Mallard

Pro-Vice-Chancellor

The Vice Chancellors Office
Mail
carina.mallard@gu.se
Visiting address
Universitetsplatsen 1, Vasaparken
41124 Göteborg
Postal address
Box 100
40530 Göteborg

Pro-Vice-Chancellor

The Vice Chancellors Office
Telephone
+46 705-63 10 04
Mail
carina.mallard@gu.se
Visiting address
Universitetsplatsen 1, Vasaparken
41124 Göteborg
Postal address
Box 100
40530 Göteborg

Professor

Department of Physiology
Telephone
+46 705-63 10 04
Mail
Carina.Mallard@neuro.gu.se
Visiting address
Medicinaregatan 11
41390 Göteborg
Room number
4431
Postal address
Box 432
40530 Göteborg

About Carina Mallard

Carina Mallard is the Pro-Vice-Chancellor at the University of Gothenburg since 1 July 2023. The Pro-Vice-Chancellor is the Vice-Chancellor’s deputy and has the overall responsibility for research issues including research infrastructure. The Pro-Vice-Chancellor is the Chair of the Research Board.

During the period 2021–2023 Carina Mallard was the Deputy-Vice-Chancellor responsible for issues regarding research. Carina Mallard is Professor of experimental perinatal brain injury research. Her research concerns brain damage in premature babies. She received her undergraduate education in Physiology at the University of Lund and got her PhD in Pediatrics at the University of Auckland in 1995. In 2006, she was appointed Professor in Physiology at the University of Gothenburg.

Carina Mallard was Visiting Professor at Kings College in London for five years and before she took up the position of Deputy Vice-Chancellor, she was Head of Core Facilities at the University of Gothenburg between 2018 and 2021. From 2011 to 2015, she was Director of Studies for the doctoral education at Sahlgrenska Academy, a position she had previously held at the Institution of Neuroscience and Physiology. Carina Mallard has had several national assignments for the Swedish Research Council and internationally for the EU. Starting in 2004, she has supervised 20 doctoral students up to the doctoral thesis defence.

Research group

Treating the newborn brain