In 1977 Lars Samuelson received his
PhD in physics at
Lund University. Afterwards he went for
post-doc at the
IBM Research Center in
San Jose, California between 1978 and 1979, researching display technology and band structure calculations. In 1981 he became an associate professor (Docent) of physics at
Lund University, after which he in 1986 became a professor of semiconductor physics at
Chalmers University of Technology/University of Gothenburg. In 1988 he became a professor of semiconductor electronics at the
Department of Physics at
Lund University, and in the same year initiated the creation of Scandinavia's first Nanoscience research center,
Nanometer structure consortium (nmC), later re-named NanoLund. In 2000 he began to focus the Nanometer structure consortium's research on
Nanowires. In 2004, he and his team became one of the first in the world to show how it is possible to combine substances with different structural, electrical and optical properties in a nanowire, allowing basic physics and novel devices to be realized. Since 2021, he is employed as a professor at
Southern University of Science and Technology in Shenzhen, leading the Institute of Nanoscience and Applications (INA). Lars Samuelson was awarded the
IVA's Great Gold Medal in 2022 for his world-leading research in
nanotechnology. He was elected a Foreign Member of the
Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) (Class of Mathematics and Physics) in 2023. Lars Samuelson became a member of the Royal Physiographic Society in 1998, the
Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences (Physics) in 2006 and The Royal Swedish Academy of Engineering Sciences in 2007. He became
Fellow of the Institute of Physics in 2004, appointed Einstein Professor of the
Chinese Academy of Sciences in 2008,
American Physical Society Fellow in 2009 and fellow international at
Japan Society of Applied Physics in 2020. Samuelson is the author of well over 700 articles with h-index 91 by Web-of-Science (h-index 112 by Google Scholar), listed in the top 1% highly cited researchers by Web-of-Science and has given more than 300 plenary/invited talks at international conferences. He is ranked third on the journal
Nano Letters list of the most productive researchers in nanosciences in the years 2001–2009. He is the Founder of four start-up companies coming out of Lund University, QuNano AB, Sol Voltaics AB, Glo AB and Hexagem AB, engaged in commercialization of nanomaterials technologies. == References ==