Professor Svensson received her Ph.D. in Molecular Pathology in 2005 from University of California, San Diego (UCSD) on work focused on spinal mechanisms of pain transmission. She then undertook post-doctoral work centered on inhibitory regulation of intracellular signaling in rheumatoid arthritis at the Department of Medicine, Division of Rheumatology at UCSD. She was recruited to the Karolinska Institutet, Department of Physiology and Pharmacology in Stockholm, Sweden in 2008, where she today is a Professor in cellullar and molecular pain physiology leading a research team exploring pain mechanisms in rheumatic disease. Her work is focused on the role of arthritis and autoantibodies and associated inflammatory and non-inflammatory processes in persistent pain.