WISE, Wallenberg Initiative Materials Science for Sustainability, is Sweden’s largest-ever investment in materials science. The aim is to enable sustainable development through basic and needs-driven materials science at the international forefront. Lund University is participating with six other Swedish universities and the initiative is funded by the Knut and Alice Wallenberg Foundation (KAW).
Within the second academic call for doctoral and postdoctoral projects, the WISE Academic project call 2024 (ap2), seven projects at NanoLund have been granted support.
“I am really excited that our researchers were awarded the WISE grants, combining excellent research and efforts for a sustainable society is central for NanoLund,” says Anders Mikkelsen, Director of NanoLund.
Doctoral projects awarded funding
- Atomistic understanding of new catalytic materials in the production of Sustainable Aviation Biofuel, led by Sara Blomberg
- Affordable Electrodes for Green Hydrogen Production: Structure and Function, led by Edvin Lundgren.
- Synthesis and characterisation of charge carrier diffusion induced nanowire light emitting diodes, led by Magnus Borgström.
Postdoctoral projects awarded funding
- Project: Mott-ferroelectric hetero-material for sustainable artificial intelligence, led by Mattias Borg
- Crafting earth-abundant wide bandgap semiconductors: development of a novel class of MgSnN2 materials, led by Vanya Darakchieva
- Altermagnets, new materials for spintronics, led by Erik van Loon.
- Energy efficient on-chip communication based on perovskite nanocrystals, led by Jesper Wallentin.
About WISE
- The Wallenberg Initiative Materials Science for Sustainability (WISE) is a collaboration between Chalmers University of Technology, KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Linköping University, Luleå University of Technology, Uppsala University, Stockholm University, Lund University, and with selected research groups at Karlstad University, Umeå University and Örebro University.
- Through collaborations with industry and society, WISE will promote and activate a transition towards a sustainable society while advancing the scientific frontier in materials science, establishing Sweden as a leading nation in the field.
- WISE is funded by the Knut and Alice Wallenberg Foundation and the total budget for the WISE programme is close to 3 billion SEK during 2022-2033.