Our Awards

Awards given by NanoLund annually

Junior Scientist Ideas Award

Selection for this award is based on the originality, quality and impact of the project as judged across all research areas of NanoLund. Projects for this award are selected among high-quality proposals for novel research projects that can be submitted by all the PhD students and postdocs at NanoLund. 

Young Teacher Award

The efforts of junior staff like PhD students, but also postdocs and other young researchers are often crucial for the courses we teach and help form the impression undergraduate students have of our research environment. Therefore, the “Early-Stage Researcher Awards for Outstanding Performance in Teaching” are given to highlight and reward some of the many great teachers among our staff. The purpose of this award is also to emphasize the importance of the teaching efforts done by NanoLund researchers.

Excellent Support Award

The purpose of this award is to emphasize the critical importance of the work done by NanoLund administrative and technical personnel, without which none of our research and teaching would be possible. We, therefore, wish to highlight and reward some of the great achievements and excellent work in this area.

New 2020: OPEN Award

As a strategic research area, spanning several faculties and more than 50 research groups, NanoLund has defined core values that are common for all members and facilitate cohesion. The OPEN award is given for in an outstanding way living the core values Openness, Pioneering & Enthusiasm as a true NanoLundian.

2023

Junior Scientist Ideas Award

Elham Akbari, PhD student, Solid State Physics
Project title: Tissue-in-a-pit an infection-on-a-chip, microfluidic system to mimic host-pathogen Interactions.

Ivan Unksov, PhD student, Solid State Physics
Project title: Biosensor for DNA based on fluorescent silver nanoclusters, semiconductor nanowires, and DNA origami 

Mehran Sedrpooshan, PhD student, Synchrotron Radiation Research
Project title: Novel Surface Coating Technique via Spark-Ablation.

Patrik Olausson, PhD student, Nano Electronics
Project title: Vertical MOSFETs using a “semiconductor-last” approach based on Template-Assisted Selective Epitaxy.

Young Teacher Award

Mehran Sedrpooshan, PhD student, Synchrotron Radiation Research

Yue Zhao, PhD student, Solid State Physics

Excellent Support Award

Gerda Rentschler, Project coordinator, Solid State Physics

Noomi Egan, Communications officer, Cooperation office

Poster Award

Medicine & Light, Climate & Environment – Ruby Davtyan, PhD student, Solid State Physics
Poster title: Lightguiding nanowires for single molecule detection with TIRF-level sensitivity.

Energy – Meena Raveesh, PhD student, CombustionPhysics
Poster title: Interferometric Quantum Control (IQC) by fs/ns Rotational Coherent anti-Stokes Raman Spectroscopy.

Quantum Science and Technology – Mattias Ammitzböll, PhD student, Atomic Physics
Poster title: Measuring the quantum state of a photoelectron.

2022

Junior Scientist Ideas Award

Mikelis Marnauza & Robin Sjökvist, PhD students, Centre for Analysis and Synthesis
Project title: In-situ growth of GaSb nanowires.

Ruben Seoane Suoto, Postdoctoral fellow, Solid State Physics
Project title: Andreev bound states in the continuum.

Tania Lima, Postdoctoral fellow, Biochemistry and Structural Biology
Project title: The role of nanoparticle size in Dectin-1 protein activation: a nano-approach to control host deleterious inflammation.

Linnéa Jönsson & Linnea Lindh PhD students, Solid State Physics and Chemical Physics
Project title: Tailored Metal Oxide Nanoparticles for improved solar cell electron extraction.

Young Teacher Award

David Alcer, PhD student, Solid State Physics

Linnéa Jönsson, PhD student, Chemical Physics

Excellent Support Award

Patrik Wirgin, Finance Officer, Synchrotron Radiation Research

Sungyoun Ju, Research engineer, Solid State Physics

Poster Award

Life Science & Nano – Jennifer Gilbert, PhD student, Physical Chemistry
Poster title: Lipid nanoparticles using cationic ionisable lipids: Effect of cargo on structure.

Quantum Physics and Photons – Morten Ib Kjӕrgaard Munk, Postdoctoral fellow, Mathematical Physics
Poster title: Coherence improvements in a double quantum dot with a third-order sweet spot.

Materials & Manufacturing and Semiconductor Technology – Yen-Po Liu, PhD student, Synchrotron radiation research
Poster title: Combined light excitation and scanning gate microscopy on heterojunction nanowire device.

Special Unicorn Prize – Simon Wozny, PhD student, Solid State Physics
Poster title: Transport in Quantum Dots: Current, Noise and Thermodynamic Uncertainty Relations.

2021

Junior Scientist Ideas Award

Anurag Kawde, Postdoctoral fellow, Lund Institute of advanced Neutron and X-ray Science
Project title: Towards more efficient water splitting: Charge carrier dynamics in CdSe functionalized Si nanowire photoelectrodes

Yen-Po Liu, PhD student, Synchrotron Radiation Research  &
Zhaojun Zhang, Postdoctoral fellow, Synchrotron Radiation Research
Project title: Temperature dependent optoelectronic properties studies on the suspending single CsPbBr3 device

Carina B . Maliakkal, Postdoctoral fellow, Centre for Analysis and Synthesis
Project title: In-situ TEM investigation of Stranski-Krastanov growth dynamics

Young Teacher Award

Jonatan Fast, PhD student, Solid State Physics

Linnéa Lindh, PhD student, Chemical Physics

Excellent Support Award

Anastasiia Anastasis, Research administrator, Solid State Physics

Daniel Madsen, Research engineer, Centre for Analysis and Synthesis

Poster Award

Anette Löfstrand, PhD student, Solid State Physics
Poster title: Bottom-up meets top-down: directed self-assembly for III-V nanowire devices.

Lukas Wittenbecher, PhD student, Synchrotron Radiation Research
Poster title: Imaging the ultrafast hot electron relaxation in InAs nanowires.

Rousan Debbarma, Postdoctoral fellow at Solid State Physics
Poster title: Effects of parity and symmetry on the Aharonov-Bohm phase of a quantum ring.

2020

Junior Scientist Ideas Award

Kim von Allmen, Postdoctoral fellow, Synchrotron Radiation Research
Project title: Microfluidic system for sorting single crystals in solution with X-ray diffraction

Egle Kelpsiene, Doctoral student, Center for Molecular Protein Science
Project title: Gene expression as an indicator of the molecular response in freshwater organism Daphnia magna after chronic exposure to polystyrene nanoparticles

Michael S. Seifner, Postdoctoral fellow, Centre for Analysis and Synthesis
Project title: Controlled Crystallisation and Stabilisation of Metastable α-Sn on InSb Nanowires

Ruben Seoane Souto, Postdoctoral fellow, Solid State Physics
Project title: Transport signatures of odd-frequency superconductivity in superconducting nanostructures

Pavel Kolesnichenko, Postdoctoral fellow, Chemical Physics
Project title: Towards Application of Artificial Neural Networks to the Analysis of Two-Dimensional Electronic Spectra of Low-Dimensional Materials

Young Teacher Award

Therese Olsson, PhD student, Solid State Physics

Excellent Support Award

Elisabeth Nordström, Finance Officer, Department of Electrical and Information Technology

Håkan Lapovski, Facility Manager, Solid State Physics

OPEN Award

Line Lundfald, Project coordinator, NanoLund

Viktor Öwall, Dean at the Faculty of Engineering and Chair of the NanoLund Board (2015-2020). Award given in December 2020 in recognition of Viktor's exceptional contributions to the strategic development of NanoLund.

2019

Junior Scientist Ideas Award

Namsoon Eom, Postdoctoral fellow, Solid State Physics
Nanoparticle superlattice growth using evaporative self-assembly

Lukas Bruder, Postdoctoral fellow, Chemical Physics &
Lukas Wittenbecher, PhD student, Synchrotron Radiation Research
Project title:  Ultrafast hot-carrier dynamics at semiconductor heterojunctions resolved in energy, time and space

Mohamed Abdellah, Researcher, Chemical Physics
Project title: CO₂ photoreduction by molecular Re(I) catalyst/InP nanowires system, dynamics and catalytic activity

Yang Chen, Postdoctoral fellow, Solid State Physics
Project title: Solar windows – Transparent solar cells

Young Teacher Award

Calle Preger, PhD student, Solid State Physics

Florinda Viñas Boström, PhD student, Solid State Physics

Excellent Support Award

Johanna Mosgeller, System administrator, Solid State Physics

George Rydnemalm, Laboratory technician, Solid State Physics

2018

Junior Scientist Ideas Award

Martin Hjort, Postdoctoral fellow, Solid State Physics
Project title: Next generation gene therapies enabled by nanostraws

Axel Eriksson, Postdoctoral fellow, Ergonomics and Aerosol Physics
Project title: Single particle in-situ incandescence measurements on engineered nanoparticles

Elke Hebisch, Postdoctoral fellow, Solid State Physics
Project title: Live-cell STED microscopy of nanodiamonds nitrogen vacancies as color centers, delivered cytoplasm by nanostraws and serving as long stable fluorescence probes

Tinna Pálmadóttir, PhD Student, Department of Biochemistry and Structural Biology
Project title: Systematic study of the role of nano-structure surface charge and aspect ratio in protein fibrillation

Emil Johansson, Master Student, Division of Medical Microbiology
Project title: Teaching neural networks quantum mechanics

Young Teacher Award

Andrea Troian, PhD student, Synchrotron Radiation Physics

Anette Löfstrand, PhD student, Solid State Physics

Excellent Support Award

Charlotte Solberg, Finance Officer, Solid State Physics

Mariusz Graczyk, Research Engineer, Solid State Physics

2017

Junior Scientist Ideas Award

Hanna Kindlund, Postdoc, Solid State Physics
Project title: Atomic ordering in group III-V ternary semiconductor nanowires

Stefán Bragi Gunnarsson, PhD student, Biochemistry and Structural Biology
Project title:Three dimensional imaging of proteins on nanowires

Daniel Finkelstein Shapiro, Postdoc, Chemical Physics
Project title: Nanowire-gas interaction: from surface site probes to sensors

Pierre-Adrien Mante, Postdoc, Chemical Physics
Project title: Nanowires for efficient terahertz emission

Young Teacher Award

Gaute Otnes, PhD student, Solid State Physics

Linus Ludvigsson, PhD student, Solid State Physics

Frida Lindberg, PhD student, Solid State Physics

Fredrik Brange, PhD student, Mathematical Physics

Tinna Pálmadóttir, PhD Student, Department of Biochemistry and Structural Biology

Excellent Support Award

Katarina Lindqvist, Finance Officer, Mathematical Physics

Anders Kvennefors, Research Engineer, Solid State Physics