I am a member of the Industrial Application and Methods (IAM) laboratory. My main research interests are related to Collaborative Information Seeking and Retrieval, Task-based and Context-based Information Access, Patent IR, Evaluation issues and User studies in real-life environments.

I currently hold a position as Asistant Professor at Stockholm Univerity, Department of Computer and Systems Sciences.

An online version of my thesis: Hansen, Preben (2011). Task-Based Information Seeking and Retrieval in the Patent Domain. Processes and Relationships.