Professor Lars Samuelson

Head of the Nanometer Structure Consortium at Lund University

Vice-director at MIC, the Danish Technical University

Professor of Solid State Physics

Lund University

Sweden

Lars Samuelson obtained in 1977 his Ph.D. in Solid State Physics at Lund University. After Post-doc at IBM Research Laboratories in San José, CA he returned to Lund in 1979. In 1986 he became Professor in Semiconductor Physics at Chalmers University in Göteborg and returned to the Physics Department of Lund University in 1988 for a Professorship in Semiconductor Electronics, starting the Nanometer Structure Consortium, the primary Nanoscience center in Sweden. He is presently the scientific leader of a Materials Science Consortium “Quantum Materials” and a Strategic Research Center in Microelectronics “NANOSCIENCE for Future Electronic Devices”. LS has held visiting Professor positions in the US, Japan and in Brazil, and is now Vice-Director at the MIC-center at DTU, Copenhagen with special responsibility for Nanoscience. LS is the primary initiator of a new university education program in “Engineering Nanoscience” at LTH/LU.

With background in fundamental semiconductor physics, Dr. Samuelson has in recent years focused his research on low-dimensional structures and the physics and applications made possible. In the 1990’s this meant (i) studies of self-assembly of quantum dots and phenomena accessed via single quantum dot spectroscopy, and (ii) the realization of quantum devices via manipulation of pre-fabricated nanostructures. In the last three years his research has been strongly focused on new ways for self-assembly formation of ideal one-dimensional semiconductor nanowires and on the physics and applications of heterostructures in such materials and devices.

In 2002 he was appointed “doubly excellent scientist” by the Swedish Research Council (VR), (a) for his research on fundamental quantum physics (by the Natural Science part of VR), and (b) for his research on electronics and photonics (by the Engineering Science part of VR). He is the author of more than 300 articles in refereed journals and has given more than100 invited/plenary talks at international conferences and workshops.