Results from the Swedish Research Council’s annual call in Natural and Engineering Sciences came this week and two projects from the materials group will get funding: Pär Olsson’s project concerns degradation of plasma-facing materials used in fusion reactors, where the highly aggressive environment with e.g. high temperatures and high-energy neutron radiation leads to unique and difficult-to-predict changes in microstructure and mechanical properties. Lindsay Merte’s project concerns the atomic-scale structures of two-dimensional catalyst materials and how these structures are affected by exposure to gas and liquid environments during reactions. The projects each run for 4 years and are expected to finance new PhD students in the group. Congrats Pär and Lindsay!