Driven by a machine

As a child, Sara Thorin dreamed of becoming a physicist. As a project leader for one of MAX IV Laboratory’s most central components – the linear accelerator – she has a great responsibility for ensuring the world’s best synchrotron radiation facility delivers light of exactly the right quality to reveal...

More knowledge means more safety

Today, we have high hopes that nanotechnology – by creating the conditions for materials with new properties – will be able to contribute to solving future challenges within health, environment and economics. But the question is: don’t new materials also entail new risks? Over the past two years at Lund...