Dr. Carlsson has an M.S. in Engineering Physics from the Lund Institute of Technology, Sweden, and received his Ph.D. in Fusion Plasma Physics from the Royal Institute of Technology, also in Sweden. Dr. Carlsson is a computational plasma physicist with a focus on computer science and applied mathematics, and is an experienced C++ developer with expertise in object-oriented design, distributed and parallel programming, and scientific computing.

Dr. Carlsson was a research associate at Oak Ridge National Laboratory and a research assistant at the Royal Institute of Technology. At Tech-X Corporation, Dr. Carlsson focuses on enhancing plasma-modeling codes, and was the principal investigator for the US DOE project "Direct Numerical Simulation of ICRF Wave-Particle Interaction".