Associate Professor in Pervasive and Mobile Computing, Department of Computer Science, Electrical and Space Engineering, in Luleå University of Technology (LTU)

Kåre Synnes, PhD and associate professor in Pervasive and Mobile Computing, is doing research in pervasive computing and multimedia communication. He is an affiliated researcher at the Centre for Distance-spanning Technology (CDT).He has since 1995 been involved in European projects such as FP4 MATES, FP5 Roxy, FP5 MediaSite, FP5 MobiHealth, FP6 CogKnow, FP6 Laboranova, FP7 AAliance, FP7 Dem@Care and FP7 Wattalyst. He has also acted as an expert/reviewer for European projects and proposals since 2009.  Kåre Synnes is also a cofounder of the IST Prize winner Marratech AB, a direct result of the FP4 MATES project, which was acquired by Google in May 2007 to form the basis for Google+ Hangouts.