The Board of Chalmers University of Technology has appointed Martin Nilsson Jacobi, currently CEO of the Chalmers Foundation, as the new president and CEO of the university. He succeeds Stefan Bengtsson, who has been president for eight years. Based in Gothenburg, he is a professor of complex systems with a background in theoretical physics. He is 50 years old and publicly defended his doctoral thesis at Chalmers in 2000. Jacobi has held several leading positions in academia during his career. These include having been chairman of the Faculty Senate and Head of Department at Chalmers. He also has international research experience. Martin Nilsson Jacobi will begin as new President at Chalmers on 1 September.