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Panel 13 – PHYSICS / MATHEMATICS
University but also in Sweden as a whole. In fact, it is also very visible
within the European scientific community. The group is fairly new as its
research topics are new but it has through extremely hard and focused
work over the last ten years managed to built up to a group of the highest
international standards. This effort has undoubtedly been very elaborate
– it is not easy to start from scratch in a new and still not completely
well-defined field – but the head of the group has done a fantastic job
to put this effort on the international scene. There are several aspects of
fundamental importance to a successful research effort of high standards
where the group has performed on the highest level. These include
publication record, external funding, collaborations, interdisciplinary
engagements, new research-based courses, and so on. One might speculate
that very few groups within the Swedish scientific community can show a
similar impressive record. By the very definition of the research field of the
group the effort has a strong interdisciplinary record. There is no question
that the group in the coming years will put itself in a very strong position
at Lund University, in the core between physics, biology, computer science
and medicine. There is also no question that this is one of the groups that
will point to a bright future. However, in order to maintain the steam, the
group needs new positions. The group has educated excellent young researchers
that have been on successful post-doc positions in USA for instance.
Some of these promising scientists ought to come back to the group. It is
important that the group takes advantage of this opportunity by incorporating
the networks that each individual has built up in USA and Europe.
This could be extremely useful in the years to come. There is no question
that this group will be one of the leading groups at Lund University in the
coming decade. The overall rating of this group is outstanding.
3.1.2 Goals for the group
The group has for many years tried to create an integrated environment
between scientists with computational and biomedical skills, covering:
1. Different levels of resolution ranging from atoms, molecules, network
motifs to entire pathways to organs and organisms.
2. Both pure biological problems and their translation to the clinical
reality.
3. A variety of species ranging from E. coli, A. thaliana to mouse and
human. In addition, state-of-the-art toolboxes have been maintained
and further developed and, very importantly, been disseminated to
the biomedical community.
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