Per Olof Hulth was born in 1943. He is professor in Experimental Astroparticle Physics at the Stockholm University, Stockholm. He obtained his Ph.D. in Elementary Particle Physics at the Stockholm University with a thesis about Strange Particle Production in Proton-Proton interactions. He started with Neutrino Physics when arriving as a fellow to CERN in 1976, working with the BEBC bubble chamber.

He has been involved in the DELPHI experiment at the LEP-collider at CERN searching for the Higgs particle. After CERN he shifted to Experimental Astroparticle physics to search for neutrinos from cosmos and became the Swedish team leader in the AMANDA neutrino experiment at the South Pole. He was the first spokesperson for the new large Neutrino Telescope project IceCube (2001-2005) at the South Pole. He is a member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences since April 2004.