Associate professor (docent) at the Institute for Analytical Sociology (Linköping university, Sweden) with a mixed industrial-academic background. PhD in Human Ecology (Lund University) and postdoc positions at, respectively, Central European University (Network and Data Science and Political Science), Budapest, and European University Institute (Political Science), Italy. Project lead for a large interdisciplinary research project studying ethnic inter-group relations in Sweden, Finland and Denmark, applying advanced network and computational methods on extremely rich full-population administrative data - see www.nordint.net for more information.Have extensive professional experience as a software/system developer (full-stack; C#/.NET/.js/Python/php/MySQL, R) during and after my PhD for various commercial and governmental clients. Current main languages are C#/.NET, php, Python, R and the scripting language used by socnet.se, a CLI client for direct (NP-hard) blockmodeling that I have developed. Expert knowledge and skills in network analysis/science, particularly role-analysis and blockmodeling techniques for valued relational datasets. Multiple publications in top research journals on novel network-analytical methods, and their applications in geography, sociology and international relations. Currently working with analyses and simulations of full-population administrative register dataset of Sweden and developing analytical immersive visualization tools in Unity/C# as well as D3js.Since my PhD studies, I have been running a small consulting firm, with clients ranging from the TV4 national channel, Royal institute of technology, Swedish EPA, WWF Sweden, Swedish space corporation, Expressen newspaper etc, with tasks ranging from algorithmic design and implementation of party affiliation tests, research on the ecological aspects of foreign trade, developing real-time sensor surveillance software for satellites, creating online communities etc etc. I still run this small company for external consulting gigs.