Maria Strømme, (born 7 April 1970 in

Svolvær (Norwegian language, Norwegian, ), , or is a List of towns and cities in Norway, town and the administrative centre of Vågan Municipality in Nordland County, Norway. It is located on the island of Austvågøya in the Lofoten archipelago, alon ...

) is a Norwegian physicist who lives and works in

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Career

She became a professor in

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in 2004. She became Sweden's youngest professor in a technical subject. Strømme holds a master of science degree in engineering physics, and completed her doctoral thesis in solid state physics in 1997 at

. She became a scientist at Naturvetenskapliga forskningsrådet. Between 2002 and 2007, she worked as an academy physicist and she was elected to the

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. She is also a member of the

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, the Norwegian Academy of Technological Sciences and the

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References

1970 births Living people People from Vågan Norwegian emigrants to Sweden Swedish physicists Academic staff of Uppsala University Members of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences Members of the Norwegian Academy of Technological Sciences Members of the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters Members of the Royal Society of Sciences in Uppsala {{Norway-scientist-stub