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Panel 13 – PHYSICS / MATHEMATICS
whether they originally come from NF or LTH. This will be an important
step towards a real unification for the two former faculties, which
today seem to be frozen in an almost hostile relationship.
Lund University has been a jewel in the Scandinavian Mathematical
landscape; it is still strong, but weakened. We believe that restructuring,
strengthening new fields which trigger cooperation and another distribution
of necessarily more money is crucial to turn the present trend around.
6. Department of Electrical Measurements
6.1 Introduction
The Department of Electrical Measurements is rather small compared to
e.g. the Department of Physics and is located at LTH. The department
consists of two groups described below. The staff of the department has a
broad background involving many scientific disciplines enabling interdisciplinary
collaborations in particular of a medical character. This is a real
strength that has must be maintained.
The Department is not located near the other physics-related activities.
According to the impression the panel got there are no plans to coordinate
all the presently-separate nanoscience and nanotechnology activities at the
University. For instance it was not clear to the panel whether the possible
synergies between the nanoscience activities in the Department of Physics
and Department of Electrical Measurements had been fully exploited.
The overall assessment is very good.
6.2 Nanobiotechnology group
The research in the group is concentrated on mind-controlled prosthetics
and neural probe technology, Lab-on-a-chip, microacoustics and microfluidics
and nanobiology and clinical proteomics. The group is small
to medium sized consisting of one professor, three associate professors,
four senior scientists and seven PhD students. The group has adequate
research facilities such as a clean room, a laser lithography system, a
bioanalytical laboratory and a proteomics mass spectrometer. The group
wants to exploit the new opportunities resulting from the creation of the
Biomedical Centre, which should be strongly encouraged.
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