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Kjell Aleklett

Kjell Anders Aleklett, was born on 7 march 1945 in Annedal, Sweden. He is Professor of Physics at Uppsala University in Sweden.

Aleklett obtained a doctoral degree in nuclear physics from the University of Gothenberg in Sweden in ****. Between 1977 and 1985 he worked as a postdoctoral fellow and then as a staff scientist at the Natural Science Laboratory at Studsvik, Sweden. During his postdoctoral work and in 1983 he visited the Nobel Prize winner Glenn T. Seaborg at the Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory of the University of California, Berkeley, USA. He collaborated with Seaborg during a period of 20 years. In 1986 he was appointed as an Associate Professor in Physics at Uppsala University. He was promoted to full Professor in 2000.

After 2000 Aleklett shifted his research focus to the world's energy resources. Together with Colin Campbell he coined the term "peak oil" to describe the maximal rate of oil production in an oilfield, a region or the world in 2002 when they organised the world's first conference on peak oil in 2002. The Association for the Study of Peak Oil and Gas (ASPO) was formed at that conference. Aleklett was elected President of ASPO International in ****, **** and ****. Today Aleklett leads the Uppsala Global Energy Systems group (UGES) at Uppsala University that has published more than 30 peer-reviewed scientific articles on issues related to peak fossil fuel resources, climate change, transport and agriculture. In June 2012 he presented a summary of a decade of research by UGES in his book 'Peeking at Peak Oil' written for a non-specialist audience.

Aleklett has been active in the Liberal People's Party of Sweden (Folkpartiet) and stood as a candidate for election to Sweden's national parliament in 1998 and 2006. He served on the council of the district of Trosa for a number of years.

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