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29 Apr 2025
Researchers have mapped a superconductor with multiple personalities
Superconductors are materials that can conduct electricity without resistance and are used in electromagnets, antennas and power lines. Researchers have now studied a multifaceted ...
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25 Apr 2025
Students' finest award to Nina Reistad
Nina Reistad, Senior Lecturer in Physics, has been awarded the Educator of the Year award by the W-section of the Student Union of Technology at Lund University. She receives the a...
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11 Apr 2025
CERN’s Breakthrough Physics Prize highlights Lund University’s global impact
The global scientific community celebrates a major achievement as CERN’s four flagship experiments—ATLAS, CMS, ALICE, and LHCb—receive the 2025 Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Ph...
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4 Apr 2025
The role of nanowires as a support for the formation of model lipid membranes
Supported lipid bilayers are formed at a faster rate on light-guiding nanowires of high curvature than on conventional planar substrates, with single-vesicle resolution that proves...
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4 Apr 2025
Opening new exciting possibilities for the study of magnetic materials
A new relation could be a valuable tool for gathering new insights into the magnetic excitations of semiconductors and other materials with magnetic properties. In the future, it c...
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31 Mar 2025
Lund physicist wins prize for best thesis in 2025
Ann-Kathrin Raab is awarded the Swedish Physics Society's Oseen Medal 2025 for best thesis work in physics. Raab is being recognised for her groundbreaking research on ytterbium-ba...
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14 Mar 2025
Ruth Pöttgen awarded Tage Erlander Prize in Science and Technology 2025
The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences awards Ruth Pöttgen from Lund University the Tage Erlander Prize in Science and Technology 2025. Pöttgen is honored for her crucial role as ph...
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27 Feb 2025
Titanium and mysterious jet streams discovered on extreme exoplanet
Using the European Southern Observatory’s Very Large Telescope in Chile, astronomers have made detailed observations of the mysterious exoplanet WASP-121 b. The discoveries of the ...
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18 Feb 2025
Seminar series in Lund celebrates the International Year of Quantum Physics
Lund University is celebrating the International Year of Quantum Physics and Quantum Technology 2025 with exciting seminars. During the spring, prominent researchers will lecture o...
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17 Feb 2025
Recognizing excellence in quantum information research
Armin Tavakoli, Assistant Professor at Mathematical Physics, has been awarded the prestigious New Journal of Physics (NJP) Early Career Award 2024 for his outstanding contributions...
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10 Feb 2025
Basic research: Quantum states of photoelectrons measured for the first time
For the first time, scientists have been able to measure the quantum state of electrons ejected from atoms that have absorbed high-energy light pulses. This is thanks to a new meas...
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11 Dec 2024
Laser technology is revolutionising the study of insect ecology
Using advanced laser systems and hyperspectral lidar, Mikkel Brydegaard, Associate Professor and researcher at the Department of Physics, wants to change how we monitor and analyse...
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4 Dec 2024
Charlotte Solberg honoured for her leadership and commitment at the Department of Physics
Charlotte Solberg, Head of Finance at the Department of Physics, has been named one of the recipients of the Lund University Administration Prize 2025. The prize is awarded annuall...
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4 Dec 2024
Two young physicists receive the Sten von Friesen Prize
Korinna Zapp and Armin Tavakoli, two young researchers at the Department of Physics, have been awarded the Sten von Friesen Prize 2024. The prize was presented at the Royal Physiog...
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19 Nov 2024
Physics at Lund University scores highly in new global subject ranking
Research and innovation in physics at Lund University reaches 44th place in the international Shanghai ranking.
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8 Nov 2024
Vectura is the landlord for future nanolab at Science Village
The procurement process is concluded. It has been decided that Vectura Fastigheter will host Lund University’s Nanolab Science Village, a lab for manufacturing nanomaterials and se...
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8 Nov 2024
Hydrogen from carbon dioxide and plant residues
A new technology that makes hydrogen from forestry and agricultural residues that are currently burnt is being developed at Lund University. The plan is to efficiently produce a gr...
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5 Nov 2024
Successful experiment paves the way for new element
Scientists have found an alternative way to produce atoms of the superheavy element livermorium. The new method opens up the possibility of creating another element that could be t...
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5 Nov 2024
Lund physicists receive 56 million from the Swedish Research Council
More than SEK 56 million in research grants for the years 2025-2028. This is how much researchers at the Department of Physics will receive in the Swedish Research Council's major ...
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17 Oct 2024
Knut and Alice Wallenberg Grant to Vanya Darakchieva
Vanya Darakchieva, Professor of Solid State Physics, has received SEK 26 million over five years from the Knut and Alice Wallenberg Foundation for the project “Transforming ceramic...