Kersti Lundin PhD

Dr. Kersti Lundin obtained her PhD in Zoophysiology at the University of Gothenburg, Sweden in 1991. She thereafter started as an embryologist and researcher at the Unit of Reproductive Medicine, Sahlgrenska University Hospital, Gothenburg, where she became Laboratory Director of Reproductive Medicine in 1997 and Associate Professor in 2004.

Dr. Lundin has published a large number of articles and chapters in international and national scientific journals and books and presented at many international congresses. She is a lecturer on courses for medical and biology students as well as laboratory staff, midwives and medical doctors in Sweden and Europe, and was involved in the start and running of both the Swedish and the Nordic IVF Laboratory Associations and the Swedish Society for Reproductive Medicine.

Her main subjects of interest are basic and clinical embryology, including embryo development and cryopreservation, always with a focus on quality management and improvement. She has been much involved in the regulations and guidelines for tissues and cells, both on an EU level and on a national level.

Dr. Lundin has been a member of the ESHRE executive committee, coordinator of the ESHRE Embryology certification committee, coordinator of the ESHRE Special Interest Group of Embryology and coordinator of the ESHRE European Affairs Committee. She was the chairman of ESHRE from 2015-2017.