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Fysikum has been granted 50,6 million for research

The Swedish Research Council has published its decision on project and establishment grants in the natural sciences. Eleven researchers at Fysikum have been awarded project grants, and one has received an establishment grant. The total amount of the grants is approximately 50.6 million Swedish kronor.

Doktorander i forskningslabbet på Fysikum. Foto: Jens Olof Lasthein
PhD students in the research laboratory at Fysikum. Photo: Jens Olof Lasthein
 

Project grants 

  • Pawel Caputa, Department of Physics: Quantum Complexity and Black Hole Interiors. SEK 3,994,000    
  • Jan Conrad, Department of Physics: Expanding the search for dark matter in laboratories – lower masses, lower cross sections. SEK 4,496,000
  • Ariel Goobar, Department of Physics: The Mystery of Dark Energy: What Is It? SEK 4,441,000
  • Markus Hennrich, Department of Physics: Controlling the Quantum Motion of Rydberg Ions in a Cryogenic Environment. 4,140,000 SEK    
  • Maria Hermanns, Department of Physics: Quantum spin liquids – understanding one of nature's most mysterious states. 4,140,000 SEK  
  • Svante Jonsell, Department of Physics: Anti-hydrogen physics. 4,140,000 SEK  
  • David Milstead, Physics: Enabling a background-free search for neutrons->antineutrons at the European Spallation Source. 3,546,000 SEK 
  • Anna Obertacke, Physics: From triggers to discovery  —  A comprehensive search for exotic physics in IceCube, SEK 4,441,000
  • Michael Odelius, Department of Physics: Light-induced homolysis in complexes with common transition metals – Theoretical investigations of photochemical reaction pathways. 4,200,000 SEK   
  • Henning Zettergren, Physics: Creation of chemical bonds in ion pair reactions with complex molecules. 4,140,000 SEK   
  • Magdalena Zych, Physics: Signatures of non-classicality from space-time to quantum technologies. SEK 4,140,000  
 

Establishment grant

Saskia Demulder, Department of Physics: Mapping the landscape of quantum gravity: from dualities to information theory. SEK 4,800,000

 

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Last updated: November 11, 2025

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