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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 ¸£Àû¼§ 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 .

Funding

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

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

Wencai Ren, Peter Boggild, Joan Redwing, Kostya S. Novoselov, Luzhao Sun, Yue Qi, Kaicheng Jia, Zhongfan Liu, Oliver Burton, Jack Alexander-Webber, Stephan Hofmann, Yang Cao, Yu Long, Quan-Hong Yang, Dan Li, Soo Ho Choi, Ki Kang Kim, Young Hee Lee, Mian Li, Qing Huang, Yury Gogotsi, Nicholas Clark, Amy Carl, Roman Gorbachev, Thomas Olsen, Johanna Rosén, Kristian Sommer Thygesen, Dmitri K. Efetov, Bjarke S. Jessen, Matthew Yankowitz, Julien Barrier, Roshan Krishna Kumar, Frank H. L. Koppens, Hui Deng, Xiaoqin Li, Siyuan Dai, D. N. Basov, Xinran Wang, Saptarshi Das, Xiangfeng Duan, Zhihao Yu, Markus Borsch, Andrea C. Ferrari, Rupert Huber, Mackillo Kira, Fengnian Xia, Xiao Wang, Zhong-Shuai Wu, Xinliang Feng, Patrice Simon, Hui-Ming Cheng, Bilu Liu, Yi Xie, Wanqin Jin, Rahul Raveendran Nair, Yan Xu, Qing Zhang, Ajit K. Katiyar, Jong-Hyun Ahn, Igor Aharonovich, Mark C. Hersam, Stephan Roche, Qilin Hua, Guozhen Shen, Tianling Ren, Hao-Bin Zhang, Chong Min Koo, Nikhil Koratkar, Vittorio Pellegrini, Robert J. Young, Bill Qu, Max Lemme, Andrew J. Pollard (2026) 2D Materials, Vol. 13, Article 021501 (Article, review/survey)
Durga Sankar Vavilapalli, Gordian Sandberg, Leiqiang Qin, Joseph Halim, Andrejs Petruhins, Daniel Dahlberg, Markus Axelsson, Anneli Kruve, Johanna Rosén (2026) Energy & Environmental Materials (Article in journal)
Haolin Dong, Zhongbo Zhang, Zhifang Wang, Yan Guo, Xinxin Huang, Qiang Huang, Jonas Björk, Johanna Rosén, Mihaiela C. Stuparu, Kaifeng Niu, Lifeng Chi, Qigang Zhong (2026) Journal of the American Chemical Society, Article PMID 7503056 (Article in journal)
Shun Kashiwaya, Stephen Nagaraju Myakala, Sho Nekita, Yuta Tsuji, Yuran Niu, Xianjie Liu, Leiqiang Qin, Manisha Sharma, Alexei Zakharov, Lars Hultman, Dominik Eder, Hikaru Saito, Alexey Cherevan, Johanna Rosén (2026) Advanced Materials, Article PMID 9885358 (Article in journal)
Mohamed A. Ibrahim, Sukanya Maity, Sebastien Boukhris, Mary Qin Hassig, Treesa Reji, Johanna Rosén, Doru Constantin, Michel W. Barsoum (2026) Small (Article in journal)

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