Petra Lindfors
PhD, Associate Professor
My research focuses on the psychobiology of stress, health and well-being in adults, children, and adolescents. I received my PhD in Psychology from Stockholm University in 2002 and my thesis formed part of the project Work without Boundaries and explored stress, health and well-being in teleworking women and men. After defending my thesis in 2002, I worked as a researcher within different projects at the Department of Psychology, Stockholm University, and at Centre for Health Equity Studies (CHESS) Stockholm University/Karolinska institutet.
A few years ago, I received a post doc grant from the Anna Ahlström and Ellen Terserus foundation that allowed further investigation of the linkages between stress, health and well-being in women. In addition, I have co-ordinated two follow-up studies within the longitudinal IDA research program and together with Ulrica von Thiele Schwarz and Ulf Lundberg, I have been involved in the research project Work scheduling, stress and psychological well-being in municipal settings. Current research projects include stress and health in school and Allostatic load and health in parents living in different socioeconomic areas.
As of September 2006, I am associate professor of psychology and as of July 2007, I am a lecturer at the Department of Psychology, where I teach on the undergraduate and master's levels, on topics relating to work, stress and health. I also teach at CHESS where I am involved in the Master program in Population health: Societal and individual perspectives. I am also involved in a number of PhD projects as assistant supervisor and have been the main supervisor of Ulrica von Thiele Schwarz who successfully defended her thesis in December 2008. As of August 2008, I am the main supervisor of Lisa Folkesson. From April 2009 and four years on I am a post-doctoral research fellow (“forskarassistent”) at the Department of Psychology, Stockholm University.
Assignments
2005- Secretary, Swedish Society of Behavioral Medicine. (SBF).
2006-2010 Treasurer, International Society of Behavioral Medicine (ISBM).
2007- Editorial Board, International Society of Behavioral Medicine (IJBM).
Current PhD students
Lisa Folkesson, Department of Psychology and CHESS.
Collaborators
Mats Gautam, forskningsassistent, Psykologiska institutionen, Stockholms universitet, Stockholm.
Ulf Lundberg, Professor, Department of Psychology and CHESS, Stockholm University, Stockholm.
Olle Lundberg, Professor, CHESS, Stockholm University/Karolinska institutet, Stockholm.
Torbjörn K. Nilsson, Professor of Biomedicine at Örebro University and Consultant Physicia at the Department of Clinical Chemistry, Örebro University Hospital.
Susanna Toivanen, PhD, CHESS, Stockholm University/Karolinska institutet, Stockholm.
Kari Trost, PhD, Researcher/Lecturer, Department of Behavioral, Social and Legal Sciences, Örebro University, Örebro.
Viveca Östberg, Associate Professor, CHESS, Stockholm University/Karolinska institutet, Stockholm.
Publications
Find Lindfors' abstracts in Annual Report.
