Maria Strømme

When Maria Strømme became professor of nanotechnology at Uppsala University, she became the youngest professor in a technical subject in Sweden. Today, she is a pioneer in nanotechnology and lectures on its impact on society, healthcare and humans. She has been an invited speaker at the World Economic Forum in Davos, talked about her research in Sommar in P1 and at Skavlan twice.

Maria Strømme leads a research group consisting of 35 researchers who together develop nanomaterials for several medical and industrial applications. They gained attention after developing the environmentally friendly algae battery and material Upsalite® that scientists for the past 100 years said would be impossible to create. She has more than 40 patents behind her and is the author of over 350 international journal publications. Maria has received a number of prizes and awards for her research and discoveries. In 2012 she was awarded the Royal The Academy of Engineering Sciences (IVA) gold medal “for her basic and applied research efforts in nanotechnology and for her extensive entrepreneurship in physics and medicine”. In 2016, she was named Swedish Woman of the Year by SWEA International and in the same year she also received the Hjärnäpplet innovation award and was named Honorary Employee of the Year.

Maria Strømme lectures on, among other things, how nanotechnology can lead to disease diagnoses being made before symptoms appear, how cancer treatment can be more effective and how smart plasters can affect wound healing. We can develop vaccines that make us immune to viruses that have not yet jumped from animals to humans. We can teach our bodies to rejuvenate, create environmentally friendly and smart packaging, develop new 4D printing technology and equip our clothes with completely new functions. We can build cities without labor and create building materials from food waste. All in all – nanotechnology is a revolution in the making!

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