Anders Nilsson
Professor of Chemical Physics, Stockholm University, Sweden.
Recall Professor Emeritus in Photon Science Stanford University, USA.
Anders Nilsson received a PhD in physics at Uppsala University, Sweden (1989) in the laboratory created by the Nobel Laureate Kai Siegbahn. Before returning to Sweden in 2014 he was 15 years as a professor in Photon Science at Stanford University.
He received the Plyler Prize at the American Physical Society, Lindbomska Award at the Swedish Royal Academy of Science, the Royal Oscar Award at Uppsala University, the Shirley Award in Berkeley, the Humboldt Award for senior scientist in Germany and was awarded Honorary Doctorate at Denmark’s Technical University.
The research on water was selected in 2004 by Science Magazine as one of the top ten breakthrough of the year, illustrated in 2014 as cover of Nature, selected as one of the 100 most essential discoveries in 2017 by Discovery Magazine and illustrated with cover in New Scientist in 2018. His research interests include x-ray spectroscopy and scattering, chemical bonding and reactions on surfaces, ultrafast science, heterogeneous catalysis, electrocatalysis in fuel cells, photocatalysis for converting sunlight to fuels, structure, dynamics and physical properties of water and aqueous solutions.
