Malin Nilsson Strandberg is a Senior Consultant working at the Stockholm office of Technopolis Group. She has extensive experience in evaluation and policy analysis in the fields of education, research and innovation at national, European, and international levels. Her work spans a wide range of topics including STEM education, research careers, and skills. Malin applies a broad set of analytical tools and methods, including stakeholder consultations, survey analysis, comparative case studies, literature reviews, and policy mapping.

Recently, Malin has contributed to several studies and evaluations at European, Nordic and national levels. Notably, she coordinated the Northern Europe country studies for the European Commission´s promoting STEM Education in Schools project and served as national expert for Sweden. She also contributed to the ERA Country Report: Sweden and the EU Research Security Monitor. She has also worked with research competence frameworks, including the development of Tenure Track-like models under Horizon Europe and the SECURE initiative. Her work involved mapping institutional models, analyzing researcher career pathways, and supporting the implementation of competence-based frameworks across European universities.

Prior to joining Technopolis Group Malin worked as an investigator within education policy at the city of Stockholm as well as quality coordinator of systematic quality education work, internal supervision and evaluation in the private sector. Moreover, Malin has served as the project manager for the STEM initiative “Microsoft Learning Generation”, focusing on enhancing digital proficiency among students.

Malin holds a Master’s degree in Political Science with specialization in Political Economy and a Bachelor´s degree in Political Science with specialization in European Studies, both from Stockholm University. She is fluent in English and Swedish, with a good understanding of Norwegian.