- 17 February 2005 -

Sweden's 10 excellence research environments

A panel of international experts has identified Sweden’s foremost environments for basic research. The Swedish Research Council will be able to finance 10 of the 27 research environments of excellence, winnowed from 261 applications.

Among the ten research teams whose fields range from population studiesto cosmology are: X-ray Free-Electron Lasers in Structural Biology. Contact: Janos Hajdu, Uppsala University, phone: +46 18-471 44 49 and nanowires for Fundamental Materials Science and Quantum Physics and for Applications in Electronics, Photonics and in Life-sciences. Contact: Lars Samuelson, Lund University, phone:+46 46-222 76 79

'This is proof that Sweden boasts a number of competitive and creative research nodes of the highest international class. It also shows what great breadth Swedish basic research has,' says Bengt Westerberg, the board chairman at the Swedish Research Council.