Published 14 May 2019 April 4th NanoLund researchers Christelle Prinz from Solid State Physics and Erik Lind from Electrical and Information Technology were appointed Professors by the Vice-Chancellor. Christelle Prinz is Professor in Experimental Biophysics and Erik Lind is Professor in Nanoelectronics.

https://www.nano.lu.se/article/two-new-nanolund-professors - 2025-07-13

Published 9 May 2019 Sara Linse has been awarded 10 MDKK from the Novo Nordisk Foundation for her project entitled "Unravelling the IAPP aggregation mechanism for the design of inhibitors that specifically suppress toxicity and cell death in type 2 diabetes" as part of the Foundation’ Research Leader Programme, which supports ambitious, original research projects and the continuing development of

https://www.nano.lu.se/article/sara-linse-awarded-10mdkk-novo-nordisk-foundation - 2025-07-13

Published 27 March 2019 The Knut and Alice Wallenberg foundation have just announced their choice of Wallenberg scholars, one of them being Stephanie Reimann, professor in Mathematical Physics. A total of 22 excellent researchers, all among the foremost in their field in Sweden, receive 18 million SEK each from the Wallenberg Foundation in the form of a five-year grant for free research.Read more

https://www.nano.lu.se/article/kaw-grant-stephanie-reimann - 2025-07-13

Published 11 March 2019 We are proud to announce that two NanoLund postdocs have been selected by the The Council for the Lindau Nobel Laureate Meetings to participate in this summers Lindau Nobel Laureate Meeting from 30 June to 5 July. Rubén Seoane Souto and Yang Chen will be two of 580 young scientists from 88 countries will come together with 42 Nobel Laureates in Lindau, Germany, in a meeting

https://www.nano.lu.se/article/nanolund-postdocs-selected-lindau-nobel-laureate-meeting - 2025-07-13

Published 4 March 2019 Our warmest congratulations to Kristian Pietras, leader of BioCare and NanoLund board member, on winning the Göran Gustafsson prize in medicine, awarded by the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences. The research on the role of a cancer tumor’s micro environment was awarded a prize of  5.1 MSEK in research funding and a 250 kSEK personal prize.Read more on the homepage of the Roy

https://www.nano.lu.se/article/nanolund-board-member-kristian-pietras-wins-prestigious-prize-young-researchers - 2025-07-13

Published 25 February 2019 NanoLund member and board member Sara Snogerup Linse was awarded the “FEBS | EMBO Women in Science Award 2019” in part for her work on the molecular mechanisms of protein self-assembly in Alzheimer’s disease and related neurodegenerative disorders. The award of 10,000 euros and a bronze statuette will be presented to Linse on 7 July 2019 at the FEBS Congress in Krakow, P

https://www.nano.lu.se/article/distinguished-prize-sara-linse - 2025-07-13

Published 25 February 2019 i-Micronews has published an interview which Yole Développement has made with Glō on their microLED displays.Read more here (in English).

https://www.nano.lu.se/article/glo-brings-microled-displays-closer-commercialization - 2025-07-13

Published 4 March 2019 There is a considerable risk that plastic waste in the environment releases nano-sized particles known as nanoplastics, according to a new study from Lund University. NanoLund researchers studied what happened when takeaway coffee cup lids, for example, were subjected to mechanical breakdown, in an effort to mimic the degradation that happens to plastic in the ocean.“We have

https://www.nano.lu.se/article/plastic-waste-disintegrates-nanoparticles - 2025-07-13

Published 18 December 2018 A product from the Lund University spin out AcouSort been selected as one of the top 10 innovations of 2018 by the life science journal The Scientist. AcouSort was founded in 2010 by, among others, NanoLund member Thomas Laurell. They use acoustofluidics to combine acoustics and microfluidics to separate and trap cells and particles in acoustic fields. It is their produc

https://www.nano.lu.se/article/acousort-product-innovation-list - 2025-07-13

Published 10 December 2018 University of Halmstad has made a feature of NanoLund scientist Håkan Pettersson and research recently funded with 4 MSEK by the Swedish Research Council. Read the feature on Halmstad University's homepage (in Swedish) or in the pick-ups by expertsvar (in Swedish), ETN (in Swedish) or in Evertiq (in Swedish).

https://www.nano.lu.se/article/nanowires-iot - 2025-07-13

Published 6 December 2018 Lund University spin out Cellevate secured 5 million SEK in their third fund round. The new finance will be used for scaling up marketing and sales of their nanofibre based cell culture systems which mimics connective tissue and are used for medical research.Cellevate started as a student project during the course Project Nanoengineer in the Engineering Nanoscience progra

https://www.nano.lu.se/article/5-million-sek-funding-cellevate - 2025-07-13

Published 4 December 2018 The list of Global Highly Cited Researchers 2018 recently released by Clarivate Analytics recognizes world-class researchers selected for their exceptional research performance, demonstrated by production of multiple highly cited papers that rank in the top 1% by citations for field and year in Web of Science. On the list are 62 researchers from Sweden of which 9 are from

https://www.nano.lu.se/article/two-highly-cited-nanolund-researchers-named-named-global-highly-cited-researchers-2018-list - 2025-07-13

Published 11 December 2018 Lars Samuelson had been awardes with Wilhelm Westrup's Prize by the Royal Physiographic Society of Lund for his excellent research on nanotechnology based upon materials science which has resulted in practical and commercial applications.Information about the prize can be found on the homepage of the Royal Physiographic Society of Lund (in English) and an article on the

https://www.nano.lu.se/article/wilhelm-westrups-prize-lars-samuelson - 2025-07-13

Published 18 January 2019 Image: Nils Rosemann. NanoLund researchers in collaboration with researchers from Uppsala University and University of Copenhagen have designed an iron complex which has shown to be luminescent and to have charge-transfer capabilities. This opens up for the possibility of replacing the expensive and rare metals such as ruthenium, osmium and iridium with iron in metal comp

https://www.nano.lu.se/article/luminescent-iron-molecule-may-result-cheaper-solar-energy - 2025-07-13

Published 26 October 2018 The Swedish Foundation for Strategic Research has published the recipients of grants for instrument-, technology- or method development. From a total of 342 project applications 33 projects - of which two are by NanoLund researchers - were granted. Christelle Prinz and Eva Unger are funded for their projects on Nanowires for reprogramming stem cells (Nanonålar för att pro

https://www.nano.lu.se/article/method-development-grants-c-prinz-and-e-unger - 2025-07-13

Published 11 October 2018  The front cover of the October issue of Nature Nanotechnology is decorated by an illustration from an article by NanoLund researchers who experimentally demonstrated a nanoscale heat engine in which only electrons at a specific energy flow between the reservoirs generating an electric current. The image on the cover is an artist’s impression of the nanoengine with the ho

https://www.nano.lu.se/article/cover-nature-nanotechnology - 2025-07-13

Published 17 September 2018 At the 10th International Aerosol Conference in Saint Louis, USA in September 2018, NanoLund PhD students Malin Alsved and Louise Green from Ergonomics and Aerosol Technology at Lund University won poster prizes - ”Overall top poster contest winner” - as they both finished in the top 5 after votation among the conference participants. Malins Alsved's poster was entitled

https://www.nano.lu.se/article/best-poster-awards-m-alsved-and-l-gren - 2025-07-13

Published 3 September 2018 Irene Geijselaers won the best student poster award at the 34th International Conference on the Physics of Semiconductors (ICPS) in Montpellier, France this summer. The poster was entitled “Determination of the band offsets in Wurtzite-Zinc-blende InP nanowires by means of photoluminescence spectroscopy”.

https://www.nano.lu.se/article/best-student-poster-award-irene-geijselaers - 2025-07-13

Published 30 January 2025 NanoLund researchers publish exciting breakthroughs in Nature on high-impedance microwave resonators with two-photon nonlinear effects. Samuel Andersson, Harald Havir, Antti Ranni, Subhomoy Haldar, and Ville Maisi have unveiled groundbreaking work on high-impedance microwave resonators with two-photon nonlinear effects. By leveraging a Josephson junction-based design, thi

https://www.nano.lu.se/article/novel-energy-diagram-technique-analyzing-multi-photon-processes-precision - 2025-07-13

By webmaster [at] nano [dot] lu [dot] se (Evelina Lindén) - published 6 February 2025 New investments will help to ensure that Sweden has a well-functioning chain of companies, research institutes and resources that can manufacture the materials and components needed in semiconductor technology. Photo: Johan Persson The Swedish Agency for Economic and Regional Growth – Tillväxtverket – allocates S

https://www.nano.lu.se/article/semiconductor-ecosystem-be-strengthened - 2025-07-13