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Johanna Rosén

Deputy Head of Department, Professor, Head of Division, Head of Unit

Currently, in selection: Wallenberg Scholar (since 2019), ERC Grantee (CoG2022, former StG), Göran Gustafsson prize awardee.

Presentation

Prof. Johanna Rosen is the Head of the Materials Design division, a research group comprising approximately 30 researchers dedicated to the design of novel materials for sustainable applications. She has been a Full Professor at Linköping University since 2016.

Prof. Rosen earned her PhD from RWTH Aachen University in Germany in 2004. Following her doctoral studies, she pursued postdoctoral research and held visiting scientist positions at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL), USA, and the University of Sydney, Australia. In 2007, she returned to Sweden and was recruited to Linköping University for a tenure-track position as a LiU-Assistant Professor. Since then, she has established a state-of-the-art laboratory and a dynamic research environment that integrates predictive theoretical modeling with advanced materials synthesis and characterization.

Research

Prof. Rosen´s research focuses on application-driven fundamental studies of novel 1D, 2D, and 3D inorganic materials, including carbides (MAX phases and MXenes), borides (MAB phases and MBenes), and a diverse range of other metallic and ceramic compounds.
Her approach combines predictive and explanatory theoretical modeling with the synthesis of particles, powders, and thin films. The structural, compositional, and fundamental properties (e.g., optical, electronic, and magnetic) of these materials are systematically analyzed. Furthermore, their potential applications are explored in fields such as energy storage, energy conversion (catalysis), water purification, electromagnetic shielding, and more emerging technologies.
The research output is published in reputable journals including Science, Nature Synthesis, Nature Materials, Nature Communications, Advanced Materials, and others. A full list of her publications can be found on Google Scholar.

Funding

Prof. Rosen´s research is primarily supported by
• the European Research Council (ERC)
• the Swedish Research Council (VR)
• the Swedish Foundation for Strategic Research (SSF)
• the Knut and Alice Wallenberg Foundation (KAW)

News

Superdatorn Berzelius.

04 June 2025

Stronger Berzelius ready for the research of the future

The latest upgrading of the supercomputer Berzelius at LiU has now been completed. Its doubled capacity enables researchers across Sweden to tackle current and future challenges in areas such as materials science, bioinformatics and machine learning.

18 December 2024

Research for a sustainable future awarded almost SEK 20 million grant

An unexpected collaboration between materials science and behavioural science. The development of better and more useful services to tackle climate change. Two projects at LiU are to receive support from the Marianne and Marcus Wallenberg Foundation.

Building from the outside, signpost

12 November 2024

Interdisciplinary research on IVA’s 100 List

Five research projects from LiU are on the 100 List of the Royal Swedish Academy of Engineering Sciences (IVA). The list pulls together projects with great potential to create value in society.

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Publications

2025

Dror Yahav, Ariel Maniv, Daniel Potashnikov, Asaf Pesach, El'ad N. Caspi, Arneil P. Reyes, Quanzheng Tao, Johanna Rosén, Eran Maniv (2025) Hidden magnetic phases in i-MAX compounds Physical Review B, Vol. 111, Article 094427 (Article in journal) Continue to DOI
Martin Dahlqvist, Johanna Rosén (2025) Combined in- and out-of-plane chemical ordering in super-ordered MAX phases (s-MAX) Nanoscale (Article in journal) Continue to DOI
Dror Yahav, Daniel Potashnikov, Asaf Pesach, El'ad N. Caspi, Quanzheng Tao, Johanna Rosén, Moshe Schechter, Ariel Maniv, Eran Maniv (2025) Field-induced spin dynamics in i-MAX Tb compound Physical Review Research, Vol. 7, Article 023106 (Article in journal) Continue to DOI
Can Kaplan, Karuppasamy Dharmaraj, Thorsten Schultz, Leiqiang Qin, Ningjun Chen, Danielle A. Douglas-Henry, Bastian Schmiedecke, Merve Buldu-Akturk, Axel Zuber, Iris Dorbandt, Maximilian Reinhardt, Yael Rodriguez-Ayllon, Yan Lu, Valeria Nicolosi, Norbert Koch, Johanna Rosén, Michelle P. Browne (2025) Enhancing CoFe Catalysts with V2CTX MXene-Derived Materials for Anion Exchange Membrane Electrolyzers Advanced Functional Materials (Article in journal) Continue to DOI
Lin Chen, Johanna Rosén, Jonas Björk (2025) Triangulene Synthesis Made Simple on Single-Atom-Doped Gold and Silver Surfaces ACS Catalysis, Vol. 15, p. 6979-6988 (Article in journal) Continue to DOI

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