Summary
Erik Sandelin is a design-minded technologist and postdoctoral fellow at MIT with 11 years of interdisciplinary experience bridging art, interaction design, and software. Trained with a PhD in Art, Technology and Design from KTH and an MA in Interaction Design, he moves fluidly between research, creative practice, and product-minded development. His career spans academia and entrepreneurship—from founding a design studio to visiting roles at Parsons and Université catholique de Lyon—demonstrating an ability to translate conceptual work into tangible systems. Known for combining "design, technology, grace," he brings aesthetic rigor to technical problems and a historian’s patience to experimental coding. Based in Cambridge, MA, he pairs scholarly depth with hands-on delivery, often focusing on how interfaces and experiences shape human behavior in subtle ways.
11 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
PhD, Art, Technology and Design, PhD, Art, Technology and Design at KTH Royal Institute of Technology
MA, Interaction Design, MA, Interaction Design at Malmö University
BS, Informatics, BS, Informatics at Lund University