Born 1959 in Jonstorp, Sweden. Study of biology at Lund University, BSc in Biology (1982), PhD in Ecology (1988), Professor for Chemical Ecology at Lund University (2000), Professor and Head of Chemical Ecology at the Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, Alnarp (since 2001), Director and Scientific Member at the Max Planck Institute for Chemical Ecology (since 2006), Honorary Professor Friedrich Schiller University Jena (since 2010), Vice-President of the Max Planck Society (2014-2020).