As much as 70% of NanoLund’s research is financed externally, typically through a highly competitive, international review process with very strict selection criteria based on scientific excellence. How can we pull this off? In individual cases, we may feel that we got “lucky” when an award is made. However, looking at our environment as a whole, it is clear that our success with attracting external funding over the years is not luck, but is rooted in a broad base of excellence: in this issue of our Newsletter alone, we are glad to announce a Starting Grant Fellowship based on excellent evaluation by the highly selective European Research Council (ERC), key roles in two major SSF Materials for Energy Centers and in the new Wallenberg Center for Quantum Computation, as well as two very important donations for equipment by the Crafoord Foundation and LMK-stiftelsen. Looking back even further, NanoLund members have coordinated as many as 9 EU projects since 2010 (including several highly competitive FET and ITN projects) as well as 8 Knut and Alice Wallenberg projects since 2011, and we count 8 ERC Awardees among our members and affiliated members. Not to forget the myriad of individual grants we receive from the Swedish Research Council and other sources that are no less competitive.
Last week, I submitted a so-called “single PI”project grant proposal to the Swedish Energy Agency. As many as six NanoLund colleagues scientist colleagues - from master students to faculty – kindly contributed figures with preliminary results and theoretical predictions, and two administrative staff helped with the budget and approvals. It is clear that our success in attracting grants, which drives and develops our environment, is enabled by collaboration and through the enthusiastic and pioneering contributions by each and every one of us, in a way that gives back to all of us and helps define NanoLund. Thank you all for your hard work!
Heiner Linke, for the NanoLund leadership. |
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| Jesper Wallentin (Synchrotron Radiation Physics) received one of three 2017 Starting Grant Fellowships awarded by the Swedish Foundations. These fellowships are reserved for scientists who got very close to obtaining ERC funding and are offered for one year at a time, up to 1,5 M EUR over five years. Jesper will develop ultra-high resolution X-ray detectors based on semiconductor nanowires, with spatial resolution radically better than the current state of the art. You may read more about the project on the Swedish Foundations' Starting Grant page presenting the fellows (in English). Read more in the Lund University press release (in Swedish) and on myscience.org (in English). |
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Professor Kimberly Dick Thelander from the Department of Physics has been awarded the 2018 Edlund Prize and the Lindbomska award by the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, for her cutting edge research on new semiconductor crystal phases in nanowires.
Read more on the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences' homepage (in Swedish: Edlundska priset 2018 and Lindbomska belöningen 2018). |
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Two scientists with very close relationship to NanoLund will receive honorary doctorate degrees from Lund University this year.
Prof. Anne Borg from Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU), who will become Honorary Doctor at the Faculty of Science, is a physicist focusing on materials science and surface science. For many years she served as a member of the NanoLund External Advisory Council and she currently chairs the Scientific Advisory Committee (SAC) at the Synchrotron Radiation facility MAX IV. Read more about Anne in the Lund University press release (in Swedish).
Prof. Chris Palmstrøm from UC Santa Barbara (Palmstrøm's research group), who has been named Honorary Doctor at the Faculty of Engineering (LTH), is a materials scientist and focuses on heteroepitaxial growth of novel materials and structures to form the basis for making new electronic, optoelectronic, magnetic and micromechanical devices. Chris had been a valuable returning guest and advisor to nanoscience research at Lund University since the 1990s and he has hosted a number of masters and PhD students at his lab at UCSB. Chris is a Member of the NanoLund Scientific Advisory Board and has also been advising the Linneaus Center NanoScience and Quantum Engineering.
The Ceremony will take place May 25th 2018 at Lund University. The day before, on May 24th the honorary doctors will give lectures in Lundmarksalen lecture hall, Astronomihuset, Sölvegatan 27. Chris Palmstrøm will be on at 08:30 and Anne Borg is on at 10:00.
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Two projects involving NanoLund members were successful when the Swedish Foundation for Strategic Research (SSF) announced their Materials for Energy (EM16) grants. Kenneth Wärnmark coordinates the project "Iron-Based Materials for Solar Energy Conversion Processes" which is granted 34,9 MSEK. Lars Samuelson is a co-applicant on the project "Low-defect-density III-Nitrides for green power electronics", which was granted 35 MSEK and is coordinated by Vanya Darkchieva from Linköping University. Read more on the Foundations' homepage (in Swedish) in the Lund University press release (in Swedish or in English). |
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NanoLund received 18 seedling projects from master students, PhD students Postdocs this year. They were generally of very high standard with many interesting ideas, making the competition hard.
Selection was done by a committee of experienced researchers and a student representative from NanoLund
Five proposals were selected for a funding of maximum 100000 SEK and the proposers are awarded the NanoLund Junior Scientist Ideas Award for their seed project.
The projects and preliminary results will be presented at the annual meeting.
The five proposals selected for funding:
- Martin Hjort, Next Generation Gene Therapies Enabled by Nanostraws
- Axel Eriksson, Single particle in-situ incandescence measurements on engineered nanoparticles
- Elke Hebisch, Live-cell STED microscopy of nanodiamonds with nitrogen vacancies as color centers, delivered to the cytoplasm by nanostraws and serving as long-term stable fluorescence probes
- Tinna Pálmadóttir, Systematic study of the role of nanostructure surface charge and aspect ratio in protein fibrillation
- Emil Johansson, Teaching Neural Networks Quantum Mechanics
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We are very grateful to the foundation LMK-stiftelsen Foundation for Interdisciplinary Scientific Research who decided to support NanoLund with a donation of 5 MSEK for equipment for fabrication and characterisation of nanostructures. The donation is specifically motivated by research led by Lars Samuelson on light emitting diodes (LEDs) for energy-efficient, human-centered lighting. The equipment will be operated as part of Lund Nano Lab and will also be useful for a broad range of basic and applied research.
Read more in the Lund University press release or in Sydsvenskan. Read about LMK-stiftelsen |
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| NanoLund was very happy to host a visit by the Board of the Crafoord Foundation on March 14. The Foundation has awarded as many as 24 grants to NanoLund scientists for research projects and equipment over the last four years, most notably a 5 MSEK donation for a super-high resolution STED microscope in 2015. The STED technique was awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 2014. Project leaders for the STED operations are Jonas Tegenfeldt and Christelle Prinz, who also received support from the ERC for this laboratory. We would like to express our deepest appreciation for the crucial support that we have received from the Crafoord Foundation. |
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NanoLund strongly encourages research visits and/or internships for PhD students as part of their education. This was put into system in the framework of the EU Marie Skłodowska Curie Innovative Doctoral Program (IDP) PhD4Energy, which NanoLund has been hosting for the past four years. The program encompasses 12 EU-funded PhD students in the area of nanoscale energy conversion, and all 12 performed internships, of which eight were performed in industry, two in non-academic research institutions, one in an governmental organisation, and one at MAX IV.
Important elements of this program were the active involvement of the PhD students in finding ad choosing their internship host, and a seminar afterwards where PhD students shared their experience within NanoLund. Here are some quotes from the students:- “My secondment in industry was a great opportunity to expand knowledge about different types of solar cells and at the same type broaden perspective to development of solar cells beyond academic research facilities.”
- “It was good to get some experience in working in another lab, and see how things are organized differently in industry.”
- “My secondment was a great opportunity to increase my contact network and will lead to a lasting collaboration”
- “It was good to work in an interdisciplinary environment”.
- “In this stimulating environment I had a chance to work in a pharmacology lab while working on an interesting physical problem.”
Interested in trying this out? NanoLund supports research visits by PhD students to other universities, and we can help with formalities and travel support regarding industrial internships. Please contact Anneli Löfgren. |
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Chi-Chang Kao of Stanford University and director at Stanford Linear Accelerator Center (SLAC) is a new member of NanoLund’sScientific Advisory Board. (SAB) We look forward to welcoming him to Lund for the Annual Meeting, October 4, 2018.
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We welcome Associate Professor Åsa Haglund from Chalmers as a visiting professor to NanoLund during 2018. She will be spending two days a week at the Division of Solid State Physics. Åsa is here every Monday and Tuesday and her visit is supported as an incoming visit grant from NanoLund.
Read more about Åsa here. |
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| We are very glad to announce that Karolina Mothander (PhD student at Physical Chemistry) and Victor Lantz (NanoLund student member) are the new student representatives to NanoLund’s Board for 2018. They will also fully participate in our Coordinators’ meetings where all important decisions are prepared. Do contact them if you have student related ideas, suggestions or issues related to NanoLund’s environment and research. |
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In addition to DOING world-class research it is important to COMMUNICATE our research to the general public. Today a number of NanoLund researchers, from PhD students to senior professors actively participate in making people in (the south of) Sweden aware of nanotechnology, NanoLund and our science. We would love if more of you would like to devote a small part of your time to this important and highly rewarding task!
A few examples of outreach work are: giving popular scientific presentations to high school students, participating in fairs, contribute during events like Kulturnatten, setting up small demonstrations or exercises for visiting students and presenting our research to larger companies in the region. We help you with both power point presentations and nanotechnology demonstrations to get started.
If you are interested, please contact Maria Messing, maria.messing@ftf.lth.se, and she will help you getting started to spread your research to a broader audience. Note that our outreach work is done both in English and Swedish, so speaking Swedish is not a requirement. |
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NanoLund has a twitter account. Follow us @NanoLund
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Thursday April 12, 2018 is the day for the inauguration of the Hitachi HF-3300 Environmental Transmission Electron Microscope (ETEM). There will be high profiled speakers from 10:00 until 17:00 in Sal K:A at the Chemistry Center. Stay tuned for more information at the homepage of the Center of Analysis and Synthesis.
Read more about the microscopes at nCHREMs homepage |
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28-29 May 2018, AF-Borgen in Lund will be the site for a Superresolution Techniques Workshop aiming to bring together experts from the whole "assembly line" that leads to cutting-edge, meaningful, and simply staggering sub-diffraction fluorescence image data. The day before, on May 27, there will be a pre-conference tutorial about superresolution optical microscopy.
More information and registration on suptechs.org |
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June 11-14 2018, the symposium Tailored surfaces in operando conditions will take place in Ystad, Sweden. It is devoted to recent advances in operando investigation of reactivity at surfaces from both experimental and theoretical approaches. The workshop aims to create a breeding ground for ideas by ensuring meetings between researchers, from academy and industry, and it is organized by Lund University, MAXIV and Chalmers.
Read more and register: tailor18.sljus.lu.se/ |
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