Elias Jarlebring is currently an associate professor in the numerical analysis group of the department of mathematics, KTH, Stockholm. He obtained his PhD degree at TU Braunschweig, Germany in 2008 and worked as a post-doctoral researcher at computer science department of KU Leuven, Belgium during 2008-2011.

For his research accomplishments, he was in 2014 awarded the Göran Gustafsson prize for junior researchers and in 2011 the Dahlquist research fellowship. His research is focused on numerical linear algebra and scientific computing. He develops linear algebra algorithms and software to solve problems from various fields in science and technology, in particular, systems and control, acoustics, electromagnetics, data science, quantum mechanics and quantum chemistry.