Vice-Chancellor

Quick facts about Martin Hellström

Age: 60 years
Family: Partner and two children.
From his CV: Martin Hellström was born in 1962 in Essen, Germany. He has a Bachelor’s Degree from the Ruhr University Bochum (Ruhr-Universität Bochum). During his Research Studies he specialised in medieval literature from the 13th century and in 1990 he publicly defended his doctoral thesis: Veritas amoris. Martin Hellström moved to Sweden in 1991 and started working as a Senior Lecturer at Umeå University. In 2011 he was appointed Professor of German with a specialisation in general literary studies at the University of Gothenburg. In 2012 he worked as Professor of general literary studies specialising in didactics at the University of Borås. Martin has been Vice-Chancellor at University West since 2017.