Six researchers share 175 million from the Wallenberg Foundation

Basic research at Stockholm University has been granted funding by the Knut and Alice Wallenberg Foundation. Henning Schmidt, Professor of Atomic Physics division at Fysikum, has received SEK 35,000,000 over five years for the project 'Making and breaking of molecular bonds'.

Image of the interstellar cloud Carina nebula taken using the James Webb Space Telescope.NASA, ESA, CSA, STScI, Megan Reiter (Rice University), processed by Joseph DePasquale (STScI), Anton M. Koekemoer (STScI).

The research project studies how bonds are created and broken when a positively charged ion interacts with a negatively charged ion under well-controlled conditions. This knowledge contributes to the understanding of phenomena ranging from the formation of a star to the behaviour of a DNA molecule.

Research subject

Atomic Physics

Research group

DESIREE

The Atomic Physics division is pursuing experimental research in atomic collision physics dealing with interactions of positively and negatively charged atomic ions, molecular ions such as fullerenes, polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs), biomolecules, and clusters.

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