Education
He graduated as Master of Science
He graduated as Master of Science
Ellervik"s main research area is carbohydrates, such as eye drops against the viral disease epidemic keratoconjunctivitis and the carbohydrate xylose as the cure for cancer. Ellervik received his undergraduate training at the Faculty of Engineering (LTH) where he started in 1989. in Chemical Engineering in 1993 and began research in organic chemistry in 1994. After presenting his thesis in October 1998 he spent almost two years working at California Institute of Technology as a post-doctoral fellowship
From Caltech he went back to Lund University where he now holds a position as professor
In 2006 he received the degree of Excellent Teaching Practice (ETP) and in 2009 he was promoted to professor Ellervik regularly writes popular articles for journals, magazines and newspapers.
His most recent articles deal with the seven deadly sins from a chemical perspective.