About us
NanoForm Science combines world leading experts in material science, with a successful track record of business development and commercialisation of innovations. The company regularly collaborates with leading research institutes and external experts, who acts as early adopters, allowing the company to quickly establish key references and results.
The team consists of:
Peter Norberg – MSc in Engineering Physics, Uppsala University, specializing in Materials Science, and PhD, KTH, in the subject area of Long-term Performance of Building Materials. He has performed a substantial number of commissioned and close to marker RTD-projects on innovative products. Over the last 20 years he has also been instrumental in the development of a range of mesoporous silica materials and manufacturing processes covering application areas such as gas and liquid filtration, thermal insulation, fire protection and intumescent coatings, and more recently bone grafting materials. He is a co-founder of Svenska Aerogel AB where he is currently working as a consultant.
Lars Österlund – CTO. Professor and co-chair of Div. Solid State Physics at Uppsala University. He is co-founder of Nanoform Science AB and Molecular Fingerprint AB, and co-founder of the Swedish Society of Vibrational Spectroscopy and was its president from 2010-2017. He is board member of the International Science Program, the Uppsala Center for Photon Sciences, the Intl. Transparent Conducting Materials network (TCMnet) and the NIR Foundation. Prof. Österlund has a PhD from 1997 from Chalmers, MSc from Umeå University, and Diploma thesis from the Max-Planck Institute in Dortmund. He did his postdoc at Aarhus University in Denmark. He was awarded docent title at Chalmers 2002. He was research director at FOI in Umeå until 2010. His academic research interests include synthesizes and experimental studies of catalytic nanomaterials, solar light responsive materials (photocatalytic and chromogenic), self-cleaning surfaces and solid state sensors. He has published 250 scientific papers and holds 6 patents.
Zareh Topalian - M.Sc. in Materials Engineering and Ph.D. in Solid State Physics from Uppsala University. He has 18 years of experience of conducting R&D in various EU-founded and international projects at Uppsala University and private companies. He is skilled experimentalist with good knowledge in different material preparation and characterization techniques. He was awarded by the Ångström Materials Academy and Innovation Foundation at Handelsbanken for his discovery of a novel chemical process for making multifunctional coating for self-cleaning applications.
Fredric Svensson - PhD in inorganic chemistry 2020. Areas of interest include the development of new inorganic and hybrid nanomaterials for medical and photochemical applications, mainly based on nanotitania and nanocellulose. His thesis, Hybrid Nano Titania: Molecular Formation Mechanisms and Applications in Nanotechnology, was awarded the gold medal in the International Sol-Gel Society's Best PhD Thesis Award 2020.
Marcus Grünerwald - CEO. MA in European studies from Jagiellonian University Krakow. Experiened funding advisor and licensed EU project manager 15+ years experience from funding of innovation with a focus on cleantech and sustainable development.