Lars Hammarström

Lars Hammarström is the Swedish government’s appointed Science and Innovation Counsellor to the Republic of Korea at the Embassy of Sweden in Seoul since 2023. Lars has held several senior scientific and management positions within large, mid-sized and start-up industries, at leading Swedish research universities, and within public sector. He is former Director of the Health and Life Science at the Swedish Innovation Agency VINNOVA and was previously responsible for international collaboration at SciLifeLab - the Swedish national centre for molecular biosciences.

He holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Biochemistry and a PhD in Organic and Medicinal Chemistry.