Kerstin Forsberg is Professor at the Department
of Chemical Engineering at KTH Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm. She
received her PhD in Chemical Engineering from KTH in 2009. She has been active
as an independent researcher focusing on the crystallization of inorganic
materials and resource recovery at KTH since 2010. Her PhD thesis focused on
how membrane technology and crystallization can be combined for the recovery of
metals from spent pickling acids. After a short postdoc focused on
crystallization in the pharmaceutical industry and microreactor technology, she
joined KTH as an assistant professor in 2010. Since then, she has focused on
developing fundamental knowledge of crystallization processes through research
projects, primarily exploring battery recycling (NiMH and LiB), recovery of
critical raw materials from red mud (Sc and V), recovery of phosphorous and
rare earth elements from apatite concentrates, and recovery of rare earth
elements from magnet waste. Some work has also focused on the synthesis of
metal-organic framework particles and composites, the mobility of
radionuclides, and adsorption.
