Deputy chairman of the department of inorganic chemistry 2, 1983-1995, and chairman from 1995 to 2000.

Board member of the Scandinavian Society for Electron Microscopy, 1990-1993.

Member of the steering committee of the European Science Foundations NETWORK scheme on Metal Cluster, 1993-1996.

Chairman of the Chemical Society in Lund 1993-1995.

Member of the program committee of chemistry at the Natural Science Research Council of Sweden, 1995-1998.

Member of the board of chemistry education at the technical faculty, Lund University 1996-1999.

Member of the Medal Committee of the Swedish Chemical Society 1995-2000.

Member of the program committee of energy research at the Natural Science Research Council of Sweden, 1995-1998.

Scientific coordinator of the EU supported TMR network CLUPOS, 1998-2002.

Member of the board of Nanometer Consortium at Lund University, 1997-1999.

Deputy member of the board of the Lund University Library, 1997-2000.

Board member of the Swedish Natural Science Research Council, 1999-2000.

Chairman for the committee of basic energy research at the Swedish Natural Science Research Council, NFR and the Swedish Research Council for Engineering Sciences, TFR, 1999-2000.

Member of the steering committee of chemistry at the Swedish Natural Science Research Council, 1999-2000.

Member of the committee of science information at the Swedish Natural Science Research Council, 1999-2000.

Chairman of the teacher appointment commission of chemistry, technical faculty, Lund University, 2000-2006.