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Wishing you a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!

The world is in urgent need of our knowledge, research breakthroughs, innovations and graduates. I would like to thank you for this year and all the important work we have done together, writes Annika Olsson, Dean of LTH.

– Published 15 December 2023

Festive dinner in Stadshallen, Stockholm.
That Anne L'Huillier, Professor of Atomic Physics at LTH, won the the Nobel Prize in Physics was no doubt among the best news of 2023. Photo: Nobel Prize Outreach/Anna Svanberg

The year is rapidly approaching its end, and what a special year it has been for LTH! With no exaggeration, I can say we are concluding a tremendously successful 2023.

First and foremost, we have been able to congratulate Anne L’Huillier, Professor of Atomic Physics, for being awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics along with Pierre Agostini and Ferenc Krausz. To be honest, we were not that surprised that it was Anne L’Huillier who became Lund University’s first researcher to receive a Nobel Prize, thereby joining the ranks of Albert Einstein and Marie Curie, to name a few previous Nobel laureates in Physics. But we were surely very proud and happy!

The full blog post by Annika Olsson, Dean of LTH