Founder

Principal

Björn Gylling

Björn Gylling holds a PhD in Chemical Engineering from KTH in Stockholm, Sweden, and has 27 years of experience in reactive transport modeling of contaminants in natural and man-made systems. He was employed at Kemakta Consultants between 1997 - 2010 and during that time he worked with, among other things, the Swedish site investigation programs SDM Site Forsmark and SDM-Site Laxemar within the areas of groundwater flow and geosphere transport and contributed to the safety assessments SR-97, SR Can and SR Site. Since then, he has been employed at SKB between July 2010 and March 2018 and has, among other things, been the head manager for the area of Solute transport. In addition, he was the substitute head manager for Hydrogeology for more than a year at SKB. During almost the entire career, the work within the international Task Force on modeling of Groundwater Flow and Transport of Solutes has been a source of knowledge, and developments and information exchange.

Education

KTH (Royal Inst. of Technology), Stockholm, Sweden
PhD, Chemical Engineering, 1997

KTH, Stockholm, Sweden/University of Sydney, Australia
M.Sc., Chemical Engineering, 1990

Work Experiences

• SKB (Swedish Nuclear Waste Management Co.), Sweden
• Kemakta Consultants, Sweden