KTH Great Prize awarded to MAX-lab’s Mikael Eriksson

Professor Mikael Eriksson, a driving force behind the MAX-lab research laboratory in Lund is this year's recipient of the KTH Great Prize. The laboratory conducts experiments considered by many to border on the impossible. Announcing the selection of Professor Eriksson for the KTH Great Prize for 2011, KTH President Peter Gudmundson cited "his courage to think along new pathways and his grand vision in accelerator physics. He has played a key role as a designer of the internationally acclaimed MAX-lab at Lund University in southern Sweden." Max-lab's full name is The National Electron Accelerator Laboratory for Synchrotron Radiation Research, Nuclear Physics and Accelerator Physics. The synchrotron radiation research conducted by Eriksson and his team at Max-lab focusses on investigating the structure, properties and function of molecules and materials. "Max-lab conducts research that stretches the bounds of what is theoretically possible," President Gudmundson said in the citation. The KTH Great Prize is accompanied by a grant of about SEK 1 million (USD 160,000).