Professor Kjell Hansson Mild is Professor at the Swedish National Institute for Working Life and at the Örebro University, where he is doing research on the bioeffects of electromagnetic fields. He has been working with bioeffects of electromagnetic fields since 1976. In the last five years the research has been mainly associated with mobile phone use. He has a background in physics and theoretical physics, and presented his thesis in 1974 on problems on cell membrane permeability and the state of water in the cytoplasm.

Professor Hansson Mild has published over 200 articles and 170 conference abstracts. He was the first person from Europe to serve on the Board of the Bioelectromagnetics Society and was President from 1995 to 1996. He has also served as associate editor for the journal Bioelectromagnetics.during the years 1988 to 1996. He is presently the chairman of the Commission K, of the Svenska Nationalkommittéen för Radiovetenskap, SNRV.