Lars-Erik Persson

Lars-Erik Persson 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.
Persson comes from the small village Svanabyn in Dorotea community, Sweden. He received his PhD degree in mathematics at Umeå University in 1974. In 1975 he was employed as associate professor in mathematics at Luleå University of Technology, and was appointed full professor in 1994. Since 2019 he is professor emeritus there. Before his professor appointment at LTU, he was appointed as full professor at UiT The Arctic University of Norway, Campus Narvik in 1992. He still works as professor of mathematics at the same university. He was also appointed as honorary professor at L.N.Gumilyov Eurasian National University, Kazakhstan in 2005. Persson has also worked as a part-time professor at Uppsala University, where he is now professor emeritus. For a shorter period he taught at Lund University, Sweden, as professor in mathematics on the chair of professor Jaak Peetre. He was appointed as senior professor at Karlstad university, Sweden, in 2019.