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This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. February 23 the Swedish Research Council announced funding of Research Environments within natural and engineering sciences for the 2016 call. NanoLund researcher Jens Schouenborg was awarded 24MSEK over six years for his project with the Swedish title: "Utveckling av implanterbar och vävnadsvänlig optoelektronisk tek

https://www.nano.lu.se/article/research-environment-funding - 2026-05-05

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. At the General Meeting of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences on 14 December, Tönu Pullerits was elected foreign member of the Academy's Class for chemistry.More information on the Academy's homepage in Swedish and English.

https://www.nano.lu.se/article/tonu-pullerits-elected-academy - 2026-05-05

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. NanoLund spin out company Hexagem, founded in 2015, has raised 2 MSEK from Almi Invest, Rapidus reports.GaN, which is a high bandgap semiconductor, is the main contender for next-generation power electronics and mobile platforms, including 5G. Today, GaN technology is hampered by challenges in wafer fabrication and ma

https://www.nano.lu.se/article/funding-hexagem - 2026-05-05

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. The NanoLund spin out company Sol Voltaics was named "Rapidus Company of the Year" at a ceremony in Malmö on January 24 2017. Organized by Swedish technology and business news publisher Rapidus, the award encompasses all business categories in the Öresund region of Sweden.The recipient of "Company of the Year" is reco

https://www.nano.lu.se/article/sol-voltaics-wins-rapidus-company-year-2016 - 2026-05-05

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. NANOWIRE WEEK will take place at the end of May 2017 in Lund, Sweden. Nanowire Week is the merger of two long-standing workshops, NANOWIRES and the Nanowire Growth Workshop, and is the foremost event worldwide for all areas of nanowire research. The aim of Nanowire Week is to promote lively discussion on all areas of

https://www.nano.lu.se/article/nanowire-week-2017 - 2026-05-05

The Lund Students' Pedagogical Prize is awarded for outstanding contributions to education. This year, Patrik Lindskoug at the Department of Law is one of two laureates. The Vice-Chancellor appoints the prize winner based on proposals from the student unions. This year, Senior Lecturer Patrik Lindskoug at the Department of Law and Senior Lecturer Oriana Quaglietta Bernal at the Department of Socio

https://www.law.lu.se/article/patrik-lindskoug-awarded-lund-students-pedagogical-prize-2024 - 2026-05-05

Associate Senior Lecturer Olena Bokareva has been granted SEK 7.8 million for the research project Sustainable Carbon Capture, Transportation and Storage: Liability and Governance in Light of International and EU Law. Associate Senior Lecturer Olena Bokareva, Lund University, and Associate Senior Lecturer Gabriela Argüello, University of Gothenburg, together with two postdoctoral researchers, will

https://www.law.lu.se/article/olena-bokareva-awarded-multi-million-grant-marianne-and-marcus-wallenberg-foundation - 2026-05-05

During the PhD Graduation Ceremony held in December 2023 at the University of Luxembourg, Nicole Citeroni received the Best Thesis Award 2023. During the ceremony, she briefly presented the topic of her PhD research titled “Systemic Economic Offences as a New Paradigm of International Crimes - Towards an Evolution or Revolution of International Criminal Law?”. The Thesis was also awarded a merit-b

https://www.law.lu.se/article/nicole-citeroni-wins-excellent-thesis-award-university-luxembourg-0 - 2026-05-05

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. NanoLund Member Thomas Laurell works with Emma Niméus from the Medical Faculty on a method to separate cells from breastcancer tumor tissue according to size, density and mechanical properties. The goal is to learn more about the properties of different cell types and to use this knowledge for better and more targeted

https://www.nano.lu.se/article/collaboration-project-breast-cancer-cells - 2026-05-05

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated.  Tommy Cedervall and fellow researchers are setting up a theatre play and a workshop in collaboration with the theatre Sagohuset in Lund, targeted  towards high school students.The play is a one man show by actor Torbjörn Lindberg, and was developed through dialog with the group of researchers. The play ends with a fa

https://www.nano.lu.se/article/theatre-nanoplastics - 2026-05-05

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. An international study led from Lund University in Sweden shows that 30 per cent of the energy in a certain type of light-absorbing iron molecule disappears in a previously unknown manner. By closing this loophole, the researchers hope to contribute to the development of more efficient solar cells using this iron-base

https://www.nano.lu.se/article/iron-based-solar-cells-track-becoming-more-efficient - 2026-05-05

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. Tommy Cedervall has been interviewed about nanoplastics on two different occations during September. WHO issued a report on an analysis of current research related to microplastics in drinking-water and Tommy was interviewed on the need for more research because we do not yet know how nanoplastics affect humans and na

https://www.nano.lu.se/article/tommy-cedervall-interviewed-nanoplastic - 2026-05-05

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. Martin Leijnse and three researchers from University of Copenhagen have received in total 10 million Euro for an ERC Synergy project called ‘Foundations of nonlocal and nonabelian condensed-matter systems'. Here, nonlocal means that quasiparticles encode a quantum state that is hidden from any local measurement, while

https://www.nano.lu.se/article/martin-leijnse-involved-awarded-erc-synergy-grant - 2026-05-05

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. In recent work involving NanoLund's Lars Samuelson, Hongqi Xu and Sören Jeppesen closely collaborating with a group at University of Tokyo/RIKEN in Japan and a group at Peking University in China describes how they have successfully realized a double nanowire Josephson junction device and discovered an enhancement of

https://www.nano.lu.se/article/double-nanowire-josephson-junction-device-frontier-physics-research - 2026-05-05

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. At the 31st MAX IV User Meeting on September 23-25, 2019 Susanna Hammarberg won the Student Poster Award 2019 for her poster: “Strain mapping of nanowire device using scanning XRD”.Read more about the poster award (in English) or read the news at MAXIV's home page (in English).

https://www.nano.lu.se/article/poster-award-susanna-hammarberg - 2026-05-05

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. The Knut and Alice Wallenberg Foundation announced on October 1st that Kenneth Wärnmark wins one of 20 prestigious grants for ground-breaking research projects. The grant of 35 MSEK over five years is to support the project “Photofunctional iron complexes”, aiming to harvest solar energy with iron-based molecules.Kenn

https://www.nano.lu.se/article/kaw-project-funding-kennet-warnmark - 2026-05-05

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. Associate Professor Maria Messing received the Smoluchowski Award August 27, 2019, during the Annual European Aerosol Conference in Gothenburg, Sweden.The Smoluchowski Award, named after the physicist Marian Smoluchowski (1872 – 1917) is awarded annually to one or two young researchers (under 40 years of age) who has/

https://www.nano.lu.se/article/smoluchowski-award-maria-messing - 2026-05-05

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. We are very happy to announce that Luke Hankin is starting today as new Head of laboratory for Lund Nano Lab, succeeding Maria Huffman. Luke comes from a position as Engineering Director at Sol Voltaics where he has lead a team of 20 people. He was responsible for lab construction, equipment development, clean room, c

https://www.nano.lu.se/article/luke-hankin-new-head-lund-nano-lab - 2026-05-05

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. A feature in Sydsvenskan describes Tönu Pullerits' research on perovskites as a material for more efficient solar cells and describes the limitations with the current silicon solar cells. The reason for the feature is that a journal article by Tönu and colleagues has been chosen as one of the best on Perovskites by th

https://www.nano.lu.se/article/solar-cell-research-featured-sydsvenskan - 2026-05-05

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. Cellevate AB, a company spun out from a project at the Engineering Nanoscience Program at Lund University, was named Nordic Nanotech Company of the Year 2019 last week at the NanoForum 2019 conference arranged by SwedNanoTech as part of the IVC-21. Another company spun-out from the NanoLund research environment, Hexag

https://www.nano.lu.se/article/cellevate-named-nanotech-company-year-2019 - 2026-05-05