Dr Joakim Holmlund has a background in Physics, first studying at the University of Gothenburg, then gaining his PhD on “High temperature Super conductivity” in 2007 at the department of applied Physics, Chalmers University of Technology. He then carried out post-doctoral research at Chalmers in the field of material science, at the same time developing parallel interests with the Swedish offshore survey company MMT (Marin Mätteknik).
Since 2008 he has been an offshore Manager with MMT and has a key role in the innovative partnership between MMT and the Maritime Archaeological Research Institute at Södertörn University (MARIS) directed by Johan Rönnby and where he is a Visiting Research Fellow. As such he has participated as project manager and operations manager for several archaeological projects for MMT and MARIS including the investigations of the warships Mars (1564), Sword (1676), Resande Man (1660), and Gribshunden (1495), and the “Ghost ship”, a 17th c. Dutch flute.
Joakim also participated in the prehistoric “Landscapes Lost” project. His profound interest for maritime archaeology comes from more than 30 years as a diver, with an explicitly technical approach from the mid 1990’s. His interest in the sea led to his present post at MMT and his work in developing new tools for archaeology under water.