Björn Jonson#
| Membership Number: | 3272 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | PHYSICS & ENGINEERING SCIENCES |
| Elected: | 2012 |
| Main Country of Residence: | SWEDEN |
| Homepage(s): | http://www.chalmers.se/fp/EN/organisation/staff |
Present and Previous Positions
- 2011 - present Chalmers Tekniska Högskola, part time
- 2009 - 2010 Scientific Associate, CERN, Switzerland
- 1985 - 2008 Professor of Physics, Chalmers Tekniska Högskola, Göteborg, Sweden
- 1984 - 1985 NFR Research Associate, Genève, Switzerland
- 1980 - 1984 Senior Staff Physicist, CERN, Genève, Switzerland
- 1976 - 1980 Staff Physicist, CERN, Genève, Switzerland
- 1974 - 1976 NFR Research Associate, CERN, Genève, Switzerland
- 1972 - 1974 Fellow, CERN, Genève, Switzerland
- 1970 - 1972 NFR Research Associate, CERN, Genève, Switzerland
- 1966 - 1969 Assistant Chalmers Tekniska Högskola, Göteborg, Sweden
Fields of Scholarship
- Research on radioactivity, beta decay, exotic nuclear decay modes
- Nuclear structure
- Nuclear reactions; knock-out reactions; Coulomb excitation
- Nuclear astrophysics
- Properties of extremely unstable nuclei ("nucleon halos")
- x-rays and neutrino masses.
- ISOL experimental techniques
- Nuclear detection techniques
- Accelerators, ion sources and magnetic spectrometers
Honours and Awards
- 1988 Member of The Royal Danish Academy of Sciences and Letters (Det Kongelige Danske Videnskabernas Selskab)
- 1997 Member of The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences ( Kungliga Vetenskapsakademien )
- 1997 Humboldt Research Award, Alexander von Humboldt-Stiftung
- 1998 Member of The Royal Society of Arts and Sciences in Göteborg (Göteborgs Kungliga Vetenskaps- och Vitterhets-Samhälle)
- 2001 Fellow of the Institute of Physics
