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Mats Danielsson

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Professor

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Roslagstullsbacken 21

Researcher


About me

Research Projects

  •  ERC Advanced Grant for the Si3 project "3D detector for imaging of diagnostic and therapeutic nuclear medicine radiotracers with outstanding efficiency and high spatial resolution" - project start 1 nov 2024

  • Coordinator for the The European Innovation Council (EIC) Pathfinder Research Project "1MICRON" with partners from Karolinska Institutet, TUM Munich, University of Trento and INFN Turino - project start 1 feb 2025

Prizes and Awards

  • 2024 KTH Innovation award The Award was made possible by donations from Mathias Uhlén, professor at KTH and Spotify founder and CEO Daniel Ek.

  • 2022 Hans Wigzell’s science prize for outstanding contributions to medical imaging
    Hans Wigzell, former president for Karolinska Institutet and chairman for
    the Nobel Assembly 

  • 2017 Member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Engineering Sciences (IVA)

  • 2014 One of three finalists for the Polhem prize for most ingenious solution to a technical problem:
    MicroDose mammography. Selected by the Swedish Engineering Society.

  • 2014 Erna Ebelings prize in medical physics and technology for improvement of healthcare
    Awarded by the Swedish Medical Society

  • 2008 Finalist for the Bepi Columbi prize for outstanding achievements in the field of research and
    technology transfer. Selected by University of Padua, Italy

  • 2004 INGVAR award for the most promising young research leaders in Sweden
    Granted by the Swedish Foundation for Strategic Research.

Biography

Mats Danielsson received his MSc in Engineering Physics from the Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm in 1990. From then until 1996 he pursued research with the CPLEAR experiment at CERN, the European Facility for Nuclear Research in Geneva, Switzerland. He received his Ph.D. 1996 with the thesis titled First Direct Measurement of T-violation, based on the first measurement of violation of the Time symmetry. From 1996 to 1998 Mats Danielsson worked as a postdoc at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, USA on research in detectors and integrated electronics for x-ray imaging. From 1999 up to now he has been employed at the KTH Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm where he currently holds a position as Professor and heads the research group in medical imaging. Together with Staffan Holmin and Jan Andersson at Karolinska Institutet Mats Danielsson took the initiative to MedTechLabs that was approved in 2017 by the Stockholm city council. Mats Danielsson further co-founded  Sectra Mamea AB (acquired by Philips in 2011), C-RAD AB (listed at Nasdaq) and Prismatic Sensors AB (acquired by GE Healthcare in 2021). Mats Danielsson have 135 approved patents and is co-author of over 150 scientific publications in journals such as Medical Physics, Physics in Medicine and Biology, Journal of Medical Imaging and Nature and the articles have been referenced more than 6000 times.


Courses

Degree Project in Physics, Second Cycle (SH204X), examiner | Course web

Engineering Skills (SA1007), teacher | Course web

Medical Imaging, Signals and Systems (FSH3220), teacher | Course web

Modern Physics (SH1011), examiner, course responsible, teacher | Course web