Omer Nur acquired his B. Sc. Honors degree in Physics from the University of Khartoum in 1986. He was then awarded a the Ph. D. Degree in Device Physics from the University of Linköping in 1996. During the years 1996 and 2004 he worked as a researcher at Chalmers University of Technology and also at Gothenburg University. In 2002, he was made Associate professor (Docent in Physics) at Chalmers University of Technology. In the year 2007, he been appointed as Senior Lecturer at the Department of Science and Technology (ITN) Campus Norrköping, Linköping University.