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/have significantly contributed to the field of aerosol science. The award is conf

https://www.nano.lu.se/article/smoluchowski-award-maria-messing - 2025-09-01

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, chemistry labs, IT and safety. Prior to that he has held positions in automotive,

https://www.nano.lu.se/article/luke-hankin-new-head-lund-nano-lab - 2025-09-01

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 the Royal Society of Chemistry in Cambridge.Read more in Sydsvenskan (in Swedish) o

https://www.nano.lu.se/article/solar-cell-research-featured-sydsvenskan - 2025-09-01

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, Hexagem AB, was also competed for the title as one of the three finalists. Congratulat

https://www.nano.lu.se/article/cellevate-named-nanotech-company-year-2019 - 2025-09-01

Rapidus reports that the recently established Spermosens AB secured 2,5 MSEK in funding from private investors and and 0,3 MSEK from Vinnova.Spermosens AB led by NanoLund graduate Kushagr Punyani, develops a diagnostic device for male infertility, predicting if the patient’s sperms would bind to and fertilize a healthy female egg, and hence diagnosing the underlying cause of male factor infertilit

https://www.nano.lu.se/article/spermosens-ab-secures-funding - 2025-09-01

Andreas Wacker was interviewed on May 20th by Swedish Radio P4 about the 2019 redefinition of the kilogram according to the SI base units.Listen to the interview here (Kilogrammet pensioneras) or read Andreas' short summary of the changes.

https://www.nano.lu.se/article/radio-interview-andreas-wacker-si-changes - 2025-09-01

NanoLund postdoc Martin Hjort was selected to participate to the LMK foundation idea forum (LMK-stiftelsens Idéforum) in Björkliden, which will take place in September 2019.  The selection was made by nomination and in competition with many promising young researchers.

https://www.nano.lu.se/article/martin-hjort-lmk-foundation-idea-forum - 2025-09-01

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 - 2025-09-01

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 top researchers.The g

https://www.nano.lu.se/article/sara-linse-awarded-10mdkk-novo-nordisk-foundation - 2025-09-01

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 in the KAW press release

https://www.nano.lu.se/article/kaw-grant-stephanie-reimann - 2025-09-01

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 dedicated to physics; k

https://www.nano.lu.se/article/nanolund-postdocs-selected-lindau-nobel-laureate-meeting - 2025-09-01

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 Royal Swedish Academy od S

https://www.nano.lu.se/article/nanolund-board-member-kristian-pietras-wins-prestigious-prize-young-researchers - 2025-09-01

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, Poland, where she will prese

https://www.nano.lu.se/article/distinguished-prize-sara-linse - 2025-09-01

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 - 2025-09-01

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 been able to show that

https://www.nano.lu.se/article/plastic-waste-disintegrates-nanoparticles - 2025-09-01

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 product AcouWash which now qualif

https://www.nano.lu.se/article/acousort-product-innovation-list - 2025-09-01

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 - 2025-09-01

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 program which was started by Nan

https://www.nano.lu.se/article/5-million-sek-funding-cellevate - 2025-09-01

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 Lund University. Two of t

https://www.nano.lu.se/article/two-highly-cited-nanolund-researchers-named-named-global-highly-cited-researchers-2018-list - 2025-09-01

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 awardees in Lokaltidningen

https://www.nano.lu.se/article/wilhelm-westrups-prize-lars-samuelson - 2025-09-01