Gunilla BorgeforsGunilla Borgefors was born in 1952 and received her Master of Engineering in Applied Mathematics from Linköping University, Sweden in 1975. After a Licentiate in Applied Mathematics from the same university she got her PhD in Numerical Analysis from oyal Institute of Technology, Stockholm in 1986. During a sabbatical she received a Master of Journalism at Uppsala University, Sweden in 2007.

She was employed at Dept. of Mathematics at Linköping University as a Researcher and Teacher and Researcher 1873-1981. Then she moved to National Defence Research Establishment in Linköping in 1982 and ended as Director of Research and the Head of the Division of Information Systems. In 1993 year she became a full professor in Image Analysis at Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, Uppsala, dividing her time between the aforementioned university and Uppsala.

Borgefors is a Fellow of International Association for Pattern Recognition (IAPR) since 1998 and of Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) since 2008. Nationally she is member No. 19 of Royal Society of Sciences in Uppsala since 2000 and of Royal Swedish Academy of Engineering Sciences (IVA) since 2011. She has had many positions of trust in IAPR, such as 1st Vice President, Secretary, and several Committees' Chair and member. After being an Associate Editor in Pattern Recognition Letters since 1998 Borgefors became one of its three Editors-in-Chief 2011. She is in the Steering committees for "Discrete Geometry for Computer Imagery" and "International Symposium on Mathematical Morphology" and has been involved in various roles in close to a hundred international conferences.

Borgefors research interest is in various aspects of discrete geometry and on description, manipulation and analysis of digital shapes, preferably in 3D, and in applications of such methods to virus recognition, wood and plant cell analysis, wood fibre and blood vessel networks, areal and satellite photo analysis of woods and fields, to mention a few. She has written well over a hundred scientific articles and is cited more than 7000 times. Read More Read Less