Vision & Mission

Our vision: 

To be at the Forefront of Nanoscience

Our vision is to be a world-leading interdisciplinary research center that uses the unique opportunities of nanoscience and nanotechnology to both satisfy human curiosity for fundamental knowledge and support technological development, addressing societal challenges with focus on sustainability, health, and resilience.

Our mission: 

To be a Great Place to do Nanoscience for the Nanotechnology of the Future

Our missionis to constantly develop internationally outstanding interdisciplinary research and learning environments that conduct and combine basic science and application-driven research. We bring together the most creative scientists, students and industry professionals across traditional disciplines and societal sectors.

Why we are needed: 

Societal Challenges we aim to address

Nanoscience and nanotechnology solve key scientific questions and societal challenges, that are not answered by traditional approaches but needs our deeply embedded interdisciplinarity that spans from fundamental to applied science.  

We have identified four areas of Societal Challenges that we can especially help address with our science and technology :

• Creating materials and technologies for a sustainable and resilient society
  Paradigms and technologies for efficient harvesting, distribution and use of energy, and for nanomaterial-based products that reduce our dependency on scarce or toxic materials, enabling product and production circularity, and make us and our environment safe. 
• Making information processing sustainable and integrated
  New physical concepts, semiconductor materials, quantum technologies, and their heterogeneous integration to enable next-generation energy efficient information processing, including AI and local real-time sensing, to optimize and safeguard environment, production and people.
• Advancing life science and precision medicine for the many
  Novel single-molecule and cell-level studies, including ultrasensitive sensors and biomimetics. Innovative nano/microstructures, soft matter and microfluidics enabling cutting edge fundamental science and translation to precision medicine, diagnostics and new therapies. 
• Bringing technological innovation and competence into society
  Educating broadly on nanoscience and nanotechnology, embedding our interdisciplinary open-minded way of working. Collaborate with private and public sectors both locally and internationally to understand needs and translate research into products, services and clinical applications.

Our strategic aims

Developing the best environment:

• A great place to do interdisciplinary science
  To be an international, highly visible interdisciplinary nanoscience environment that continuously fosters new multidisciplinary clusters and constellations. To offer exceptional scientific opportunities, training, and career development for everyone. 
• Unique infrastructure 
  Develop, promote and use outstanding unique infrastructure to create and understand materials and structures. Build state-of-the-art clean room fabrication facilities designed for close interactions with NanoLund researchers and students co-located for maximum interaction with the world class characterization facilities MAX IV and ESS in Science Village.
• Interaction with society, from people to industry
  Building and using an ecosystem that integrates education, interdisciplinary research and development across societal sectors, in strong collaboration with both small and large industries to promote innovation that benefits us all.

Developing the best science and technology:

• Building and understanding with atom-level control
  To fabricate nanostructured compound materials and semiconductor devices with atom-level control. To gain a deep understanding of their physical, chemical, and/or biological interactions by modeling and characterizing them at all relevant length- and time scales.
• Pioneering fundamental science
  To make fundamental scientific discoveries that increase our understanding of the world and form the basis for finding new paradigms and device concepts, using deep knowledge from quantum phenomena to life-science, drawing on our excellent infrastructure and people.
• Deep-tech applications
  To create technological solutions with enhanced performance and new capabilities for energy, communication, computing, sensing and diagnostics, building on a deep understanding of semiconductors and safe and sustainable use of advanced nanotechnology.