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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

Johanna Rosén.

30 September 2025

Johanna Rosén elected to the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences

Linköping professor Johanna Rosén has been elected as a new member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, KVA, in the class for engineering sciences. She is one of five new members.

Supercomputer 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.

Co-workers

Publications

2026

Mohamed A. Ibrahim, Sukanya Maity, Sebastien Boukhris, Mary Qin Hassig, Treesa Reji, Johanna Rosén, Doru Constantin, Michel W. Barsoum (2026) Room-Temperature Synthesis and Length Tunability of Quantum-Confined One-Dimensional Lepidocrocite Titanate Nanofilaments Small (Article in journal) Continue to DOI
Leiqiang Qin, Rutuparna Samal, Jianxia Jiang, Joseph Halim, Ningjun Chen, Florian Chabanais, Per O A Persson, Johanna Rosén (2026) Defect Engineering and Effect of Vacancy Concentration on the Electrochemical Performance of V-Based MXenes Energy & Environmental Materials (Article in journal) Continue to DOI
Shun Kashiwaya, Yuchen Shi, Jun Lu, Davide Sangiovanni, Grzegorz Greczynski, Martin Magnuson, Mike Andersson, Johanna Rosén, Lars Hultman (2026) Reply to: Synthesis of goldene comprising single-atom layer gold NATURE SYNTHESIS (Article in journal) Continue to DOI
Feiyue Hu, Peigen Zhang, Pei Ding, Shuo Zhang, Bingbing Fan, Ali Saffar Shamshirgar, Wei Zheng, Wenwen Sun, Longzhu Cai, Haijiao Xie, Qiyue Shao, Johanna Rosén, Zhengming Sun (2026) Magnetic-Dielectric Synergy in One-Dimensional Metal Heterostructures for Enhanced Low-Frequency Microwave Absorption NANO-MICRO LETTERS, Vol. 18, Article 155 (Article in journal) Continue to DOI
Sanjay Chakraborty, Jonas Björk, Martin Dahlqvist, Johanna Rosén, Fredrik Heintz (2026) A survey of AI-supported materials informatics Computer Science Review, Vol. 59, Article 100845 (Article in journal) Continue to DOI

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