Lars-Erik Persson

Lars-Erik Persson (born 24 September 1944) is a Swedish/Norwegian professor in mathematics, known for his works in Fourier analysis, function spaces, inequalities, interpolation theory and related problems connected to convexity and quasi-monotone functions.

Before his professor appointment at LTU, he was appointed as full professor at UiT The Arctic University of Norway, Campus Narvik (previously Narvik University College) in 1992.

He was also a member of the NT-R board (Mathematics and Technical Mathematics) at the Swedish Research Council for six years, where he was involved in distributing funding for top-tier basic research in Sweden.

He initiated and was the first director of Center of Interdisciplinary Mathematics (CIM) at Uppsala University.

In November 2015 he was invited to Collège de France by Fields medalist Pierre-Louis Lions.