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9 unusual facts about University of Gothenburg


Adam Johansson

Adam Johansson studied political science, economics, history, and international relations at the University of Gothenburg in Sweden before beginning his professional soccer career.

Culture Collection, University of Göteborg

Culture Collection, University of Göteborg, Sweden (CCUG) is a Swedish microbial culture repository located in Göteborg, Sweden established in 1968 and affiliated with the University of Gothenburg.

Erik Enby

The Ethical Committee of the University of Gothenburg approved Enby's research in 1983, and he is officially allowed to take blood tests to go ahead with his research.

Ferdinando Sardella

Ferdinando Sardella completed his BA and B.Th. degrees and received a MA in religious studies with a major in history of religions at the University of Gothenburg.

Iréne Theorin

Theorin studied at the Academy of Music and Drama of the University of Gothenburg.

John R. Riordan

At the moment, Riordan is a professor at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and as well as partaking in general research in Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, he his also a visiting scientist at the Academy Salhgrenska (where he holds an honorary doctorate ) and University of Gothenburg

Journal for Geoclimatic Studies

The spurious study, ostensibly authored by Daniel Klein and Mandeep J. Gupta of the University of Arizona's Department of Climatology, and Philip Cooper and Arne FR Jansson at the University of Gothenburg's Department of Atmospheric Physics, claimed that global warming was not human caused, but the work of carbon-dioxide emitting bacteria based on the ocean floor.

Midhat Ajanović

Ajanović was, for a couple of years, appointed as a lecturer in film studies at the University of Gothenburg, while also lecturing at the college school in animation at Eksjö.

Zbigniew Karkowski

He studied composition at the State College of Music in Gothenburg, Sweden, aesthetics of modern music at the University of Gothenburg’s Department of Musicology, and computer music at the Chalmers University of Technology.


Åke Parmerud

After working as a photographer from 1972 to 1974, Parmerud began his music studies in 1978 at the Högskolan för Scen och Musik (Conservatory of Theatre and Music) at the University of Gothenburg, where his teachers included the electronic-music composer and visual artist Rune Lindblad.

Fredrik Svensk

At Valand School of Fine Arts, University of Gothenburg, he is a part-time lecturer teaching art and culture theory and is running the The Valand Seminar for Advanced Art Theory.

Gothenburg Theatre Academy

Gothenburg Theatre Academy refers to the drama school in Gothenburg, Sweden, that started in 1941 as Maria Schildknechts elevskola and today, after several changes of name and organizational structure, forms part of the Academy of Music and Drama (Swedish: Högskolan för scen och musik) at the University of Gothenburg.

Susanne Dodillet

Dodillet earned a master's degree in cultural education from the University of Hildesheim in Germany (2001) and a PhD in the history of ideas from the University of Gothenburg in 2009.


see also

Gerard Jennings

In 2001 he was conferred with the degree of Doctor Honoris Causa (Honorary Doctorate) by the University of Gothenburg, Sweden.

Petri Salo

Petri Salo has visited as a guest lecturer in various universities in Finland (University of Helsinki, University of Joensuu), Scandinavia (University of Gothenburg (Gothenburg), Sweden, Norwegian University of Science and Technology Trondheim, and University of Tromsø, Tromsø, Norway), Estonia (University of Tarto), the U.S. (University of Minnesota) and Australia (Charles Sturt University, Wagga Wagga)