WISE Networking Day 2025

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What is your role at the Alfa Laval?

Since the beginning of 2021, I have been leading a collaborative initiative by Alfa Laval with the Swedish research infrastructure MAX IV and Lund University. The objective of the initiative is to create an easy accessible and value-creating platform for technology and engineering industry users of large-scale x-ray and neutron research facilities.

What is your talk about at WISE Networking Day 2025?

As a company, we have made a journey from being a novice X-ray and neutron facility user to a more established user. With several successful experiments and collaborations, we have now started to integrate the use of research infrastructures into our own R&D processes. We also see that we share several challenges and opportunities with other companies.

Our strategic direction now is to cluster together with other technology and engineering companies to create better conditions for our industry sector to create business value from x-ray and neutron experiments. In my talk I will also touch on Alfa Laval’s and some other companies’ commitment and interest in MAX IV and ESS and how we together could contribute to a positive development of the Brunnshög area in north-east Lund.

What is your take on close collaboration between academia and industry, and materials research being a particularly important field going forward?

Taking into account the global and local challenges that society faces today, we are convinced that collaboration is the key to faster success. The green transition and new emerging energy technologies that go with it, are typically challenges where we need to develop new sustainable solutions faster due to the time pressure to which we are exposed. From an industry perspective, we need to break up our traditional way of trial-and-error testing and become more accurate in developing new technical solutions faster. Especially when it comes to new materials and applications, we need to get closer to basic research and knowledge, and the tools available in the academic environment, such as large-scale research infrastructures. This will require new guidelines on how we, industry and academia, can and should work together in the best possible way to create value for both parties.