Astrid Soderbergh Widding
About
Astrid Naemi Söderbergh Widding is a Swedish film studies scholar. She is professor of film studies and rector of Stockholm University since 2013. Söderbergh Widding is a board member of the Swedish Film Institute, a former president of the board of the Ingmar Bergman Foundation, and a columnist in the newspaper Svenska Dagbladet. She earned her PhD in 1992 at Stockholm University with a dissertation on Andrei Tarkovsky. She was elected as a member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences in 2014 and became a Knight of the French Legion of Honour in 2015.
