Project Grants and Starting Grants from the Swedish Research Council 2019
The Swedish Research Council reached a decision on October 31, 2019 on project grants and starting grants within Natural and Engineering Sciences. The Department of Physics and Astronomy is granted 40 840 000 SEK for the period 2020-2023 for in total nine project grants and three starting grants. The projects will begin during 2020.
Read more about the Swedish Research Council's grants within Natural and Engineering Sciences 2019
Research Project Grants
Anti-de Sitter Amplitudes
Project title: Anti-de Sitter Amplitudes
Main applicant: Marco Chiodaroli, Division of Theoretical Physics
Grant amount: 3 350 000 SEK for the period 2020-2023
The importance of the weak
Project title: The importance of the weak
Main applicant: Björgvin Hjörvarsson, Division of Materials Physics
Grant amount: 3 200 000 SEK for the period 2020-2023
Global 3D models of AGB stars and Red Supergiants with winds
Project title: Global 3D models of AGB stars and Red Supergiants with winds
Main applicant: Susanne Höfner, Division of Astronomy and Space Physics
Grant amount: 3 825 000 SEK for the period 2020-2023
Project description: Global 3D models of AGB stars and Red Supergiants with winds
Magneto-optical metasurfaces
Project title: Magneto-optical metasurfaces
Main applicant: Vassilios Kapaklis, Division of Materials Physics
Grant amount: 3 400 000 SEK for the period 2020-2023
Stellar magnetic activity: a key factor for evolution, atmospheres and habitability of terrestrial exoplanets
Project title: Stellar magnetic activity: a key factor for evolution, atmospheres and habitability of terrestrial exoplanets
Main applicant: Oleg Kochukhov, Division of Astronomy and Space Physics
Grant amount: 3 255 000 SEK for the period 2020-2023
Femto-science: Electromagnetic transition form factors of the nucleon
Project title: Femto-science: Electromagnetic transition form factors of the nucleon
Main applicant: Stefan Leupold, Division of Nuclear Physics
Grant amount: 3 525 000 SEK for the period 2020-2023
Project description Femto-science: Electromagnetic transition form factors of the nucleon
Hyperonsönderfall inom BESIII och PANDA-experimenten – sällsamma nycklar till fundamentala krafter och symmetrier
Project title: Hyperonsönderfall inom BESIII och PANDA-experimenten – sällsamma nycklar till fundamentala krafter och symmetrier
Main applicant: Karin Schönning, Division of Nuclear Physics
Grant amount: 3 825 000 SEK for the period 2020-2023
FIXED: Fluorescent Incoherent X-ray Emission and Diffraction to determine protein structures
Project title: FIXED: Fluorescent Incoherent X-ray Emission and Diffraction to determine protein structures
Main applicant: Nicusor Timneanu, Division of Molecular and Condensed Matter Physics
Grant amount: 3 200 000 SEK for the period 2020-2023
Transforming strong bonds: Orbital-specific x-ay spectroscopy will tell us how to
Project title: Transforming strong bonds: Orbital-specific x-ay spectroscopy will tell us how to
Main applicant: Philippe Wernet, Division of Molecular and Condensed Matter Physics
Grant amount: 2 960 000 SEK for the period 2020-2023
Starting Grants
Coherent Control of Materials Properties
Project title: Coherent Control of Materials Properties
Main applicant: Oscar Grånäs, Division of Materials Theory
Grant amount: 3 000 000 SEK for the period 2020-2023
Project description Coherent Control of Materials Properties
2D magnets for spintronic and magnonic applications
Project title: 2D magnets for spintronic and magnonic applications
Main applicant: Yaroslav Kvashnin, Division of Materials Theory
Grant amount: 4 000 000 SEK for the period 2020-2023
Project description 2D magnets for spintronic and magnonic applications
Supernova Neutrinos in IceCube and Hyper-Kamiokande
Project title: Supernova Neutrinos in IceCube and Hyper-Kamiokande
Main applicant: Erin O'Sullivan, Division of High Energy Physics
Grant amount: 3 300 000 SEK for the period 2020-2023
Project description Supernova Neutrinos in IceCube and Hyper-Kamiokande
