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WISE grants to four projects at the Department of Physics

Four PhD and postdoctoral projects at the Department of Physics are awarded funding in the second academic call from WISE. In total, 54 projects across the country will share SEK 166 million.

Johan Lindskoug – Published 20 September 2024

Two hands performing an experiment. Photo
Materials research today is largely conducted at the nano level. Here, a wafer is lifted with tweezers in the clean room at Lund Nano Lab. Photo: Charlotte Carlberg Bärg.

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 together 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, WISE Academic project call 2024 (ap2), four projects at the Department of Physics at Lund University have been granted support.

"It is gratifying that four of our materials science projects are now receive reinforcement from WISE.  It shows that we are at the forefront of research in the field," says Erik Swietlicki, Deputy Head of the Department with research responsibility at the Department of Physics. 

Doctoral projects awarded funding

Project: Affordable Electrodes for Green Hydrogen Production: Structure and Function. Project leader: Edvin Lundgren.

Project: Synthesis and characterisation of charge carrier diffusion induced nanowire light emitting diodes. Project leader: Magnus Borgström.

Postdoctoral projects awarded funding

Project: Altermagnets, new materials for spintronics. Project leader: Erik van Loon.

Project: Energy efficient on-chip communication based on perovskite nanocrystals. Project leader: Jesper Wallentin.

    All projects awarded funding on the WISE website.

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    • 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.