Primary Job Title Director Primary Organization NanoLund
Location Lund, Skane Lan, Sweden Regions European Union (EU), Nordic Countries, Scandinavia Gender Male
Professor of Semiconductor Electronics/Solid State Physics at Lund University. Ph.D. in Physics, Lund University, in 1977. Post-doc at IBM Research in San José 1977-1978. Professor at Chalmers (1986) and at Lund University (1988) Director of the Nanometer Structure Consortium from its start in 1988. Internationally recognized for his research
on low-dimensional semiconductors, such as nanowires, and for the physics and applications made possible by these structures, His research on Semiconductor Nanowires was in 2006 selected as one of the top ten research environments for all areas of science in Sweden. Appointed Fellow of the Institute of Physics in the UK (2004). Member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences (Physics) (2006) and Engineering Sciences (2007). Awarded the “Einstein Professorship” by the Chinese Academy of Sciences (2008) Appointed Fellow of the American Physical Society (Materials Physics) (2009) Awarded the IDEON Prize for Innovation (2011) Awarded the IUVSTA Prize for Science (2013) for the period 2010-2013.
