VR - Vetenskapsrådet (The Swedish Research Council)
Pär Omling - Director General of VR
- Director General of VR since January 2001
- Master of Science degree in Engineering Physics (1979)
- PhD in Solid State Physics (1983)
- Post doc at UC Berkeley and the Lawrence Berkeley Laboratories (1984-1985)
- Professorship in Experimental Condensed Matter Physics and in Solid State Physics (1996)
- Swedish representative in the European Science Foundation
- Secretary General for the Swedish Engineering Research Council (1999-2000)
- Former member of The Research Committee governed by the Minister of Education and Research
- Former consultant for prize evaluation reports by the Nobel Committee for Physics