Forskning vid Uppsala universitet

Forskningsprojekt från 2016-01-01 till 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 ...

Forskningsprojekt från 2018-01-01 till 2020-12-31

The present project will meet the swedish national scientific, industrial and societal demands within high-quality material analysis by sustaining and advancing the role of the Tandem laboratory at Uppsala ...

Forskningsprojekt från 2021-01-01 till 2024-12-31

The present project will meet the broad Swedish national scientific, industrial and societal demands for high-quality material analysis by sustaining and advancing the role of the Tandem Laboratory at ...

Forskningsprojekt från 2014-01-01 till 2017-12-31

This project aims at investigating plant dynamics and forest development in the past (the last 130 000 years) and using this information to assist scientists modelling geographical range shifts in response ...

Forskningsprojekt från 2018-01-01 till 2021-12-31

Atmospheric rivers are long narrow bands of large integrated water vapor transport in the troposphere. At land fall they are usually associated with extreme conditions in terms of wind and precipitation ...

Forskningsprojekt från 2021-01-01 till 2023-12-31

Oxygen is essential for the health of lake ecosystems, but global climate warming may severely deplete oxygen concentrations by increasing microbial respiration rates and stifling atmospheric exchange. ...

Forskningsprojekt från 2017-12-01 till 2020-12-31

Generation IV reactor concepts may contribute to improved sustainability of nuclear power. However, due to the early stage of development, the knowledge on the behavior of their fuel upon irradiation is ...

Forskningsprojekt från 2020-01-01 till 2023-12-31

The rich archaeological and paleoenvironmental records from the Peloponnese peninsula (Greece) are investigated to provide an integrated understanding of the role of climate and climate change for Bronze ...

Forskningsprojekt från 2021-01-01 till 2024-12-31

The plasma wake-field accelerator AWAKE at CERN is entering a second development phase in which the electron line will be redefined. The current electron source, based on a S-band photoinjector and S-band ...

Forskningsprojekt från 2020-01-01 till 2022-12-31

Stora områden (20%) av svensk skogsmark har artificiellt dränerats genom dikning under de senaste århundradena för att öka produktionen av timmer. När dessa diken åldras, måste dikesrensning ofta utföras ...

Forskningsprojekt från 2015-01-01 till 2018-12-31

Landscapes are multifaceted archives combining natural forming processes with cultural practises and land use strategies of past generations. The aim of the project is to explore the rich archives of the ...

Forskningsprojekt från 2015-01-01 till 2016-12-31

The results of the coming run of LHC will determine the future of high-energy physics and the need for future high-energy particle accelerators. If the need for very high-energy electron-positron accelerators ...

Forskningsprojekt från 2012-01-01 till 2014-12-31

The near future of high-energy physics will be dominated by research done at the LHC, but eventually a high-energy electron-positron collider will be required in order to do precision measurements of the ...

Forskningsprojekt från 2016-01-01 till 2019-12-31

The Paleocene-Eocene Thermal Maximum (PETM), a period of global warming some 55 Ma, was triggered by multiple injections of isotopically light carbon into the atmosphere. Methane venting due to magma intrusion ...

Forskningsprojekt från 2019-01-01 till 2021-12-31

India’s agriculture, economy, water resources and societal well-being heavily rely on the Indian summer monsoon rainfall (ISMR). But ISMR is strongly influenced by the El-Nino Southern Oscillation (ENSO ...

Forskningsprojekt från 2015-01-01 till 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 ...

Forskningsprojekt från 2012-01-01 till 2014-12-31

Current global warming, associated with the rapid release of CO2 by burning of fossil fuels, impacts ecosystems both on land and in the ocean, most notably in polar regions. Marine phytoplankton play a ...

Forskningsprojekt från 2019-01-01 till 2022-12-31

Deep sea sediment archives form the backbone of global palaeoclimate understanding. Such palaeoclimate reconstructions rest upon the geological law of superposition; sediment core layers become older with ...

Forskningsprojekt från 2019-01-01 till 2021-12-31

Extreme weather events, floods and droughts—problems that are likely to become more frequent and extreme due to climate change— inflict major losses and disproportionally affect lower income countries, ...

Forskningsprojekt från 2018-12-01 till 2022-11-30

Frågeställningarna i projektet är: I vilken utsträckning förändras förekomsten av extrema händelser och omfattningen av påverkan på kustzonen i ett ändrat klimat? Fokus är på stormar, översvämningar och ...

Forskningsprojekt från 2013-01-01 till 2013-12-31

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 ...

Forskningsprojekt från 2013-01-01 till 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 ...

Forskningsprojekt från 2015-01-01 till 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 ...

Forskningsprojekt från 2015-11-01 till 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 ...

Forskningsprojekt från 2015-01-01 till 2018-12-31

There are several forms of uncertainties in the predictive modeling of glacial mass balance. One of these uncertainties is to what degree melt water will refreeze, advect latent heat into, and stay as ...

Forskningsprojekt från 2017-01-01 till 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 ...

Forskningsprojekt från 2021-01-01 till 2024-12-31

Glaciers outside the Greenland and Antarctic ice sheets are at present, despite their small volume (200,000 glaciers on Earth. A range of remote sensing and in situ observations of surface conditions and ...

Forskningsprojekt från 2015-01-01 till 2018-12-31

FeS2, pyrite or fool´s gold have excellent light-absorbing properties. In this project we will study the charge transfer of hard X-ray photoexcited electrons from pyrite into metal or organic (graphene ...

Forskningsprojekt från 2016-01-01 till 2018-12-31

Hydrologisk torka kan ha allvarliga konsekvenser för naturen och samhället, bland annat för jordbruk, vatten-/energiförsörjning och ekosystem. Klimatmodeller förutsäger att extrema händelser som den europatäckande ...

Forskningsprojekt från 2016-01-01 till 2018-12-31

The international FAIR facility, at which Sweden is a share holder, is under construction in Darmstadt, Germany. It attracts the vast majority of research groups in Nuclear and Hadron Physics in Sweden ...