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Tomas Björk was born in Fagersta, Sweden, in 1947. He received his B.A. from the University of Stockholm in 1971, and his PhD in Optimization and Systems Theory from the Royal Institute of Technology in 1981. In 1994 he was appointed Docent. Between 1971 and 1974 he worked as a Researcher at the National Defense Research Establishment (FOA). In 1981 he became a Research Associate and in 1987 a Senior Lecturer of Optimization and Systems Theory at the Royal Institute of Technology. He has also given several courses in Mathematical Finance at the Stockholm School of Economics. His main research interests include martingale theory, nonlinear filtering and mathematical economics. He is presently at the Department of Finance, Handelshögskolan, Stockholm.