Peter Parnes is a professor, entrepreneur and engineer based in Luleå, Sweden, with over two decades of academic and product-facing experience bridging research, education and software innovation. He has led teams and startups—from founding Marratech and multiple maker initiatives to steering strategic software work at Parnes Labs—while holding a long-term professorship at Luleå University of Technology. His work spans real-time communications, mobile (Android/iOS), web applications and tangible interaction design, with a pragmatic focus on making technology and research accessible to everyone. Peter also advises national education policy on digitalization and programming, served as an EU Code Week ambassador, and founded local makerspaces to boost inclusion and hands-on tech learning. Known for moving fluidly between creative teaching, project management and hands-on prototyping, he combines deep research credentials (PhD, docent) with repeated entrepreneurial exits into public impact. Less obvious: he consistently mixes part-time innovation coaching and civic tech leadership with sustained academic publishing and institute-level governance.
12 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
Docent, Media Technology, Docent, Media Technology at Luleå University of Technology
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