Sven Anders Flodström (born 1 October 1944) is a Swedish professor of materials physics at the

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. Flodström was born in Söderhamn,

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. He studied engineering physics and

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in Linköping. In 1975, he was awarded a

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in physics in Linköping with the thesis "Electronic structure of clean and oxygen covered aluminium and magnesium surfaces studied by photoelectron spectroscopy". Flodström was also one of the initiators of the

synchrotron A synchrotron is a particular type of cyclic particle accelerator, descended from the cyclotron, in which the accelerating particle beam travels around a fixed closed-loop path. The magnetic field which bends the particle beam into its closed p ...

facility

MAX-Lab MAX IV is a next-generation synchrotron radiation facility in Lund, Sweden. Its design and planning has been carried out within the Swedish national laboratory, MAX-lab, which up until 2015 operated three accelerators for synchrotron radiation re ...

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, where he served as a coordinator until 1985. In 1985 he was appointed professor of materials physics at the Royal Institute of Technology in

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. He was previously the

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of Linköping University from 1996 to 1999 and of the

from 1999 to 2007 and University Chancellor of Sweden and head of the

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from 1 August 2007 to 30 June 2010. Since November 2012, Anders Flodström is the Chief Education Officer o
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Swedish physicists Academic staff of the KTH Royal Institute of Technology Rectors of KTH Royal Institute of Technology Academic staff of Linköping University Swedish civil servants Members of the Royal Swedish Academy of Engineering Sciences 1944 births Living people {{Sweden-scientist-stub