Gustaf Olsson is professor in Industrial automation and since 2006 professor emeritus at Lund University, Sweden. He has devoted his research to control and automation in water, wastewater, electrical power and process industries. Between 2006 and 2008 he was part time professor in electrical power systems at Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden. He has been visiting professor at the Technical University of Malaysia (UTM) and at the Tsinghua University every year since 2006. He is also an honorary faculty member of the Exeter University in UK.

Gustaf has guided 23 PhDs and a few hundred MSc students to their exams. He has received the Lund University pedagogical award for “distinguished achievements in the education". The Lund University engineering students have elected him as the “teacher of the year”. In 2010 he received the IWA (International Water Association) Publication Award. He has spent extended periods as a guest professor and visiting researcher at universities and companies in the USA, Australia, Japan, Malaysia, and China and has been invited as a guest lecturer in 18 countries outside Sweden. He has authored eight books, some of them published in English, Russian, German and Chinese, and more than 140 scientific publications.

Gustaf has served in various positions within IWA. Between 2005 and 2010 he has been the editor-in-chief of the journals Water Science and Technology and Water Science and Technology/Water Supply. From 2007 to 2010 he has been a member of the IWA Board of Directors.