Research at Uppsala University
The professor wanting to contribute to peace on Earth
25 January 2021. Isak Svensson is, as he describes it, a product of the Department of Peace and Conflict Research. Si ...
Natural hazard events and national risk reduction measures unconnected
20 January 2021. Countries where massive natural hazard events occur frequently are not more likely than others to ma ...
Disrupted immune cell navigation in lymph nodes of breast cancer patients
14 January 2021. In breast cancer, tumours of different types have divergent effects on the functioning of the lymph ...
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Here you will find all research projects at Uppsala University funded by the main Swedish funding bodies. The search feature is based on the SweCRIS database.
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The Torrent Ahead: Algorithms for X-ray Lasers to Study Structure, Function and Dynamics
Research project from 2019-01-01 to 2024-12-31
A new generation of superluminous X-ray free-electron lasers (XFEL) will deliver billions of exposures per day at intensities up to 100-times higher than intensities available from existing XFELs. The ...
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11th Int. Conf. on Low Energy Antiproton Physics
Research project from 2013-01-01 to 2013-12-31
With this application we seek for the funds to invite world-leading experts as keynote speakers to the 11th International Conference on Low Energy Antiproton Physics (LEAP2013). This biennial event has ...
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A 1D Imaging SXES/RIXS Spectrometer at the XFEL SQS Station
Research project from 2016-01-01 to 2019-12-31
Resonant inelastic soft X-ray scattering spectroscopy has several important features that makes is attractive for studies ranging from fundamental phenomena in atoms and molecules to the function of complex ...
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A new family of single-molecule magnets: structural and magnetic characterization of self-assembled monolayers
Research project from 2012-07-01 to 2015-06-30
The aim of the proposed project is to study the magnetism of a new family of singlemolecule magnets (SMMs), and determine how their magnetic properties are modified when interacting with the surface of ...
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Aktuella trender i multifunktionella Dirac materialer, en internationell workshop
Research project from 2016-11-01 to 2016-11-30
Name of the conference: Current Trends in Multifunctional Dirac Materials, an International Workshop. In Swedish: Aktuella trender i multifunktionella Dirac materialer, en internationel workshop.The ...
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Ansökan Swedish in-kind contribution to XFEL
Research project from 2011-01-01 to 2015-10-31
Ansökan Swedish in-kind contribution to XFEL ...
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Atomic processes in stellar atmospheres: towards high-accuracy stellar abundances for galactic archeology
Research project from 2017-01-01 to 2020-12-31
The measurement of stellar chemical abundancesis a fundamental problem in astrophysics. While spectral lines are routinely measured at accuracies of 1%, systematic errors dominate interpretation and errors ...
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Controlling sample integrity in X-ray Free-Electron Laser experiments: Exposure, heating and plasma dynamics in the time domain
Research project from 2013-01-01 to 2016-12-31
X-ray Free Electron lasers push the frontier of science with their extremely short and brilliant pulses. The high X-ray intensities allow new ways to image single bio-particles in their native environment ...
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Charge transfer in stars and supernovae
Research project from 2021-01-01 to 2024-12-31
A key insight from quantum mechanics is the importance of processes involving electron rearrangement, such as charge transfer (CT) in collisions between atoms. In dilute plasmas such as those often observed ...
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Coherence and spin polarization of probe waves: new frontiers in spectroscopic research
Research project from 2014-01-01 to 2017-12-31
Recent progresses with manipulating electron beam in transmission electron microscopes opened new frontiers of research. Use of the electron vortex beams, that is beams that carry an orbital angular momentum ...
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Coherent Control of Materials Properties
Research project from 2020-01-01 to 2023-12-31
Emergent phenomena, such as insulator to metal transitions, magnetism and superconductivity, often occur in materials where many degrees of freedom are strongly coupled to each other. To understand, and ...
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Development of Electrochemical Induced Raman Spectroscopy for investigation of catalytic intermediates in non-fossil fuel production
Research project from 2019-07-01 to 2022-06-30
The proposed research aims to develop a new physico-chemical investigation technique able to detect intermediates of electrocatalytic reactions. Electrochemical Induced Raman Spectroscopy, couples electrochemistry ...
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Development of a diamond waveguide sensor for ultra sensitive chemical analysis using tunable mid-IR quantum cascade lasers
Research project from 2015-01-01 to 2018-12-31
The project is aimed to develop a sensitive chemical sensor based on a microfabricated diamond waveguide. By coupling mid-IR light into a macroscopic diamond crystal FTIR-ATR spectroscopy can be performed ...
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Electron correlations and inelastic scattering under non-equilibrium in low dimensional systems
Research project from 2012-01-01 to 2013-12-31
We will develop a space and time-dependent Green function formalism that can be used to address questions concerning correlation and scattering effects on a nanoscale in modern materials. As most measurements ...
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Enhanced performance of the X-ray spectrometer at European XFEL
Research project from 2015-01-01 to 2017-12-31
Resonant inelastic soft X-ray scattering spectroscopy has several important features that makes is attractive for studies ranging from fundamental phenomena in atoms and molecules to the function of complex ...
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FAIR - preparations for in-kind contributions
Research project from 2013-01-01 to 2014-12-31
The FAIR facility to be constructed in Darmstadt, Germany, attracts the majority of the Swedish research groups active in Nuclear and Hadron Physics as well as a sizeable part of the Atomic and Accelerator ...
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FIXED: Fluorescent Incoherent X-ray Emission and Diffraction to determine protein structures
Research project from 2020-01-01 to 2023-12-31
The project studies the feasibility of incoherent diffractive imaging - a brand new method to determine atomic and electronic structure of condensed matter and molecules. It uses ultrashort and intense ...
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TOMORROW´S BIOLOGY AT ADVANCED PHOTON SOURCES
Research project from 2011-01-01 to 2015-12-31
This proposal brings together those who developed the scientific case in biology for building X-ray lasers (Uppsala) with the team that leads the world in synchrotron-based X-ray crystallography and the ...
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Financing of in-kind contribution to SPARC/APPA at FAIR
Research project from 2015-01-01 to 2018-12-31
The FAIR facility is under construction in Darmstadt, Germany. It attracts the vast majority of research groups in Nuclear and Hadron Physics in Sweden as well a part of the Atomic and Accelerator Physics ...
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The future of x-ray based spectroscopic techniques
Research project from 2015-11-01 to 2015-11-30
X-ray based spectroscopies are rapidly evolving. This progress is largely driven by the development of novel X-ray sources with dramatic improvement in performance in terms of intensity and time resolution ...
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Photoexcitation, photoionization and photofragmentation dynamics of free molecules
Research project from 2013-01-01 to 2016-12-31
The new possibilities offered by third-generation and soon fourth-generation synchrotron radiation sources (like MAX IV) and high-resolution electron energy analysers allow one to acquire fundamental information ...
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From Radiation to Radicals: X-ray-Induced Dynamics of Free and Solvated Systems Containing Heavy Atoms
Research project from 2018-01-01 to 2021-12-31
Understanding x-ray radiation damage is a crucial issue for medical applications of x-rays, as well as for x-ray free-electron-laser science aimed at molecular imaging. Biomaterials mostly consist of low-Z ...
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Physics and Proteins
Research project from 2014-01-01 to 2016-12-31
Proteins are the workhorses of all living cells, they participate in all metabolic activities. The biological function of a protein is intimately linked to its shape, and the protein folding problem addresses ...
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Physics of molecular electronics for energy conversion
Research project from 2014-01-01 to 2017-12-31
The goal of this proposal is to provide theoretical foundations for electronic correlation effects in molecular and nanostructured systems under non-equilibrium conditions designed for solar and chemical ...
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Understanding and controlling excitons, charges and defect states in new zero-, two-, and three-dimensional bismuth perovskite materials for optoelectronic applications
Research project from 2017-01-01 to 2020-12-31
Lead-halide perovskites have the recent years been developed for use in optoelectronic devices. In particular solar cells based on these perovskites have shown very high solar to electricity conversion ...
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Generation of giant half-cycle pulses of terahertz light
Research project from 2017-01-01 to 2020-12-31
This project is to develop a novel concept of generation of quasi-half-cycle pulses of THz light with a field strength in the Volt/Ångström range (interatomic fields) and with variable polarization. The ...
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Graphene Ballistic Self-switching Diode System for Multi-environmental Gases Detection
Research project from 2020-01-01 to 2022-12-31
Environmental gas monitoring and early warning of harmful vapors are attracting increasingly attention in a variety of fields. As a promising sensing material, graphene has aroused scientists’ great enthusiasms ...
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High resolution positron emission tomography with scintillators pixellated using lacer-induced optical barriers
Research project from 2015-01-01 to 2017-12-31
This research aims to develop scintillator detector arrays for high resolution PET imaging, using the recently emerging technique of Laser-Induced Optical Barriers (LIOB). LIOB allows for a flexible and ...
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Holonomic quantum computation
Research project from 2014-01-01 to 2017-12-31
The insight that quantum holonomies, i.e., non-Abelian geometric phases, have an inherent resilience to errors has opened up a path to overcome unwanted open system effects and parameter instabilities ...
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IN-KIND CONTRIBUTION TO THE EUROPEAN XFEL
Research project from 2012-01-01 to 2017-12-31
The Laboratory of Molecular Biophysics at Uppsala University will provide parts of the bio-imaging instrumentation as a Swedish in-kind contribution to the European XFEL GmbH. This project has been approved ...
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Researchers contribute to local infection control
10 December 2020. Uppsala is one of the regions that has been particularly hard hit by COVID-19 over recent weeks. Inf ...
Antibodies - for better or worse
9 November 2020. Immune cells protect us from contagions and keep us healthy, but sometimes they mistakenly attack ou ...
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