The Olofsson Research Group

Sayad has received a 100 000 SEK award from King Carl XVI Gustaf's 50-years Foundation!
The funding will be used to begin some independent research in the area of biobased materials, mechanochemistry and catalysis. Check out the pictures from the award ceremony!

Berit chaired the organizing committee of The Nobel Symposium on Chemistry for sustainability: fundamental advances in Sigtuna May 19-22. The symposium was hosted by SUCCeSS, and had 30 internationally leading speakers and about 30 specially invited researchers from Swedish academia and industry.

Several satellite events were organized in conjunction with the Nobel symposium, including the popular scientific event Reimagining Chemistry: Building a Circular World. Have a look at the video recording from the event, including the talk of Nobel laureate Ben Feringa.

The Stockholm declaration on chemistry for the future was launched at the Nobel Prize museum May 23, see the video recording from the event here. Please read, sign and share the Declaration!

We welcome Mattias Haglund as a new bachelor student in the group, and say goodbye to Wesley Beijnes, who finished his project.

Manisha Lamba has joined the group for a two-year postdoc, welcome!

Read our new ChemComm paper on a sustainable and scalable synthesis of diaryliodonium salts! This project was started already in 2017, put aside, then expanded and completed now - congratulations Sayad, Leonard, Piret and Marufa, well done!

There are three great conferences upcoming this summer, which Berit is involved in organizing:

1) The Nobel Symposium in Chemistry for sustainability: fundamental advances, with a set of satellite events taking place May 18-23 in the Stockholm area.

2) The 3rd National Meeting of the Swedish Chemical Society (SCS2025) takes place in Västerås June 18-18. Early bird registration until Feb 5th, so be fast!

3) The 23rd European Symposium on Organic Chemistry (ESOC) will take place in Copenhagen, June 29th-July 3rd.

Our mechanochemistry paper has been selected as 2024 HOT Green Chemistry article!

We have decided to leave Twitter (X), as we don't want to support Elon Musk, Trump and all the crazy lies they spread. Please follow our LinkedIn page Olofsson Lab instead.

We have created a LinkedIn group for current and former coworkers - please join Olofsson Group Alumni!

Berit received the EuChemS Division of Organic Chemistry Award for Service! The award will be handed out at ESOC 2025 in Copenhagen.