Photon Science Award
The Center for Photon Science at Uppsala University awards the Uppsala Photon Science Award, which we have colloquially called the Årets Ljushuvud award, to award doctoral dissertations with particularly innovative use, development of photonology or particularly outstanding research results with photonic methods.
This year's Årets Ljushuvud are newly graduated doctors from Uppsala University who completed their doctorate during the previous calendar year.
Melanie During
2025
On the verge of extinction: A multi-proxy approach to understanding life up to the KPg-extinction in North Dakota
Link to thesis.
Former Årets Ljushuvud
Anastasiia Mikheenkova
2024
Investigating ageing mechanisms in electric vehicle batteries: A multiscale approach to material analysis
Link to thesis.
Martin Qvarnström
2023
Who ate whom? Paleoecology revealed through synchrotron microtomography of coprolites (fossil feces)
Link to thesis.
Ida Källquist
2022
Combining Electrochemistry and Photoelectron Spectroscopy for the Study of Li-ion Batteries.
Link to thesis.
Martin Qvarnström
2021
Who ate whom? Paleoecology revealed through synchrotron microtomography of fossil droppings.
Link to thesis.
Clara-Magdalena Saak
2020
Molecular Interaction at the Surface of Aqueous Solutions.
Link to thesis.
Dibya Phuyal
2019
An X-ray Spectroscopic Study of Perovskites Oxides and Halides for Emerging Devices.
Link to thesis.
Donglei Chen
2018
The Origin of Osteichthyan Teeth, Tooth Replacement and Organization: 3D Histology of the 425-million-year-old Fossil Bones Revealed by Synchrotron Tomography.
Link to thesis.
Max Hantke
2017
Flash diffractive imaging of biological particles with X-ray lasers.
Link to thesis.