My name is Rikard Fristedt and I work as a researcher at RISE in Borås, at the Department of Chemistry and Applied Mechanics in the Chemical Problem Solving unit.
I have a PhD in cell biology from Linköping University in Sweden and postdoctoral training from UCLA in Los Angeles, USA, and VU University in Amsterdam, Netherlands. For the past seven years, I have worked as a senior laboratory manager at Chalmers University of Technology, Department of LIFE, in the Department of Food and Nutritional Sciences. At Chalmers, I was responsible for several laboratories in analytical chemistry as well as for analytical instrumentation. In May 2025, I started at RISE.
My area of expertise is biochemistry and the application of separation techniques (chromatography) together with a range of analytical detection methods, particularly mass spectrometry (LC-MS and GC-MS), to study biomolecules.
At RISE, my work primarily focuses on applying these analytical methods to address complex chemical and biological questions.
I can assist with the analysis of amino acids, proteins, peptides, vitamins, sugars, lipids, fatty acids (both short- and long-chain), minerals, phthalates, adipates, citrates and other alternative plasticizers, phenols and bisphenols, polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs), volatile organic compounds (VOCs), alkylphenols, alkylphenol ethoxylates and related surfactants, flame retardants (BFRs, OPFRs, etc.), antioxidants, stabilizers, UV absorbers, residual monomers, and small oligomers, as well as various other organic and inorganic molecules.
These compounds can be measured in biological samples such as plasma, as well as in materials like food products and protein isolates.
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