Science translator's CV for Olle Karlström, Dr. tech.
Contact information
Scandscience
E-mail: olle.karlstrom@tele2.se
Home page: http://www.scandscience.se
Nationality:
Swedish
Languages translated:
- English to Swedish
- Danish to Swedish
- Swedish to English
- Danish to English
Specialties:
Science, medicine, technology, manuals, and web pages
Linguistic background:
Swedish: Mother tongue
English: Working stays (postdoctoral year etc.) in USA and England; English as the important working language in laboratories with English-speaking fellow workers during more than 40 years within molecular biology. Almost daily reading of research literature in English. Written more than 30 scientific papers in English.
Danish: Worked for 29 years at Copenhagen University as a teacher and researcher.
Other background and characteristics:
Programming: HTML with css.
A general interest in languages: A word nerd with a passion for looking up words in the big, fat unabridged Webster
or other members of my collection of dictionaries or encyclopedias. Love my thesaurus.
(Plus a basis of good school grades in Swedish, English, German, and French; have taken classes in several languages during leisure time)
Formal academic qualifications:
2004-2007 internet-based university courses
One semester is half a year
- French corresponding to one semester of fulltime studies, Halmstad University
- English grammar and translation corresponding to a quarter of a semester, Lund University
- General linguistics corresponding to a quarter of a semester, Lund University
- Italian corresponding to one semester of fulltime studies, Lund University
1958-1973
- 1973 Docent in Microbiology at the Karolinska Institute, Stockholm, Sweden
- 1972 Dr. tech. At the department of Biochemistry, The Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden
- 1963 "Licentiate" Department of Food Chemistry, The Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden
- 1958 Master of Engineering, The Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden
Employments:
- 2004- Scandscience, enterprise under personal management: translation
- 1974-2003 Associate professor at Copenhagen University: Research and teaching within molecular biology
- 1973-1974 Department of Microbiology, The Pharmaceutical Faculty, Uppsala University, Sweden
- 1971-1973 Department of Biochemistry of the Nobel Institute, the Karolinska Institute, Stockholm, Sweden
- 1964-1971 Department of Chemistry, the Karolinska Institute, Stockholm, Sweden
- 1963-1964 Department of Bacteriology and Immunology, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA (Post-doctoral fellowship).
- 1959-1963 Department of Food Chemistry, KTH, Stockholm, Sweden
- 1958-1959 The Norwegian Institute for Seaweed Research, The Norwegian Institute of Technology, Trondheim, Norway
Technical equipment:
Macintosh- and Windows Vista-computers
with Microsoft Office including 2007, WordFast, Trados, Wordfinder;
Adobe Creative suite 2, Acrobat, Photoshop, Illustrator, GoLive etc.
Supporting equipment:
Scanner with OmniPageScansoft to produce text files from paper documents or from pdf-files.
