Lars Samuelson received his PhD in Physics in 1977, with his research focusing on experimental and theoretical studies of electron-phonon coupling at deep levels in semiconductors. He then conducted postdoctoral research at the IBM San Jose Research Center in California, where he was active in the fields of display technology and band structure calculations. In 1981, he became an Associate Professor of Physics at Lund University, and in 1986, he was appointed Professor of Semiconductor Physics at Chalmers University of Technology/University of Gothenburg. In 1988, he returned to Lund University as a Professor of Semiconductor Electronics in the Department of Physics. It was during this time that he initiated the interdisciplinary research center known as the Nanometer Structure Consortium (later renamed NanoLund), which today comprises more than 400 researchers. Since 2021, he has been appointed a Chair Professor at the Southern University of Science and Technology (SUSTech) in Shenzhen, China, where he also serves as the head of the Institute of Nanoscience and Applications (INA).

In 2004, he was elected a Fellow of the Institute of Physics (FInstP) in the UK, followed by a Fellowship with the American Physical Society (APS, Materials Physics) in 2009, and an International Fellowship with the Japan Society of Applied Physics (JSAP) in 2020. He became a member of the Royal Physiographic Society in 1998, was elected a member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences (KVA, Physics Class) in 2006, and joined the Royal Swedish Academy of Engineering Sciences (IVA) in 2007. In 2008, he was honored as an "Einstein Professor" by the Chinese Academy of Sciences. His notable awards include the IUVSTA Science Prize for the triennium 2010–2013 (awarded in 2013), the Fred Kavli Distinguished Lectureship in Nanoscience (2014), and the Wilhelm Westrup Prize (2018), which recognized his work in translating fundamental materials science into commercial value. In 2022, Lars Samuelson was awarded the Great Gold Medal—the highest honor in engineering science from the Royal Swedish Academy of Engineering Sciences—"for his internationally outstanding contributions as a pioneering researcher and research leader in nanoscience and nanotechnology, and for the utilization of scientific results, particularly in the field of semiconductor technology." In 2023, he was elected a Foreign Member of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS).

Lars Samuelson is the founder and chief scientist of four startups dedicated to the commercialization of nanowire and nanomaterial technologies: QuNano AB, GLO AB, Sol Voltaics AB, and Hexagem AB. He is the author of more than 700 articles indexed in Web of Science, with an h-index of 91 (108 according to Google Scholar), and is listed among the top 1% most highly cited researchers. He has delivered over 300 plenary or invited talks at international conferences.

• Semiconductor nanowire growth technology; 

• optoelectronic device applications;

• low-dimensional structure physics.

1977, Lund University, PhD in Condensed Matter and Materials Physics

1972, Lund University, MSc in Physics

2021 - Present Chair Professor, Southern University of Science and Technology, and Director of the Institute of Nanoscience and Applications

2024 - Present Lund University, Professor Emeritus

2016 - 2023 Lund University, Senior Professor, Department of Physics

2003 - 2005 Technical University of Denmark, Deputy Head of the Department of Micro- and Nanotechnology (MIC)

1988 - 2015 Lund University, Professor of Semiconductor Electronics, Department of Physics

1995 RIKEN (Institute of Physical and Chemical Research, Japan), Visiting Professor

1991 University of California, Santa Barbara, Visiting Professor

1991 Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro, Visiting Professor

1986 - 1988 University of Gothenburg/Chalmers, Professor of Semiconductor Physics

1979 - 1986 Lund University, Research Assistant

1977 - 1978 IBM Research Laboratory, Postdoctoral Researcher

2004, elected Fellow of the Institute of Physics (FInstP), UK

2006, elected Member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences

2007, elected Member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Engineering Sciences

2008, appointed Einstein Professor by the Chinese Academy of Sciences

2009, elected Fellow of the American Physical Society (Materials Physics)

2011, awarded the IDEON Science Park Innovation Prize

2013, awarded the IUVSTA Science Prize for the triennium 2010–2013

2014, honored as Fred Kavli Distinguished Lecturer in Nanoscience

2018, awarded the Wilhelm Westrup Prize

2020, elected International Fellow of the Japan Society of Applied Physics

2022, awarded the Great Gold Medal by the Royal Swedish Academy of Engineering Sciences

2023, elected Foreign Member of the Chinese Academy of Sciences

Research ID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1971-9894

（1）"InP Nanowire Array Solar cells Achieving 13.8% Efficiency by Exceeding the Ray Optics Limit", JWallentin, N. Anttu, D. Asoli et al., SCIENCE 339, 1057 (2013)

https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.1230969

（2）"Continuous gas-phase synthesis of nanowires with tunable properties", M Heurlin, MH Magnusson, D Lindgren, M Ek, LR Wallenberg, K Deppert, ... Nature 492, 90 (2012)

https://www.nature.com/articles/nature11652

（3）"Solid-phase diffusion mechanism for GaAs nanowire growth", A.I. Persson, M.W. Larsson, S.Stenstrom, B.J. Ohlsson, L. Samuelson and L.R. Wallenberg, Nature Materials 3, 677 (2004)

https://www.nature.com/articles/nmat1220

（4）"Synthesis of branched 'nanotrees' by controlled seeding of multiple branching events", K.A. Dick, K. Deppert, M.W. Larsson, T. Martensson, W. Seifert, L.R. Wallenberg and L. Samuelson, Nature Materials 3, 380 (2004)

https://www.nature.com/articles/nmat1133

（5）"Nanowire-based one-dimensional electronics", C. Thelander, P. Agarwal, S. Brongersma, J. Eymery, L.F. Feiner, A. Forchel, M. Scheffler, W. Riess, B.J. Ohlsson, U. Gosele and L. Samuelson, Materials Today 9, 28 (2006)

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1369702106716510