Thomas Nilsson

Since December 2024, Professor Thomas Nilsson is the Scientific Managing Director and Chair of the Manangement Board of the GSI Helmholtzzentrum für Schwerionenforschung GmbH and the Facility for Antiproton and Ion Research in Europe (FAIR) GmbH . He studied Engineering Physics at Chalmers University of Technology in Gothenburg, Sweden, and was a PhD student at the former TH (now TU) in Darmstadt. After that, he worked as a physics coordinator at the ISOLDE facility at the CERN research center in Switzerland. From 2005 to 2006, he worked as a researcher at TU Darmstadt and Chalmers University.

Since 2009, he has been a full professor in physics at Chalmers and during 2017-2024 Head of the Physics Department and part of the university management group. Professor Nilsson is also a member of the Physics Class of the prestigious Royal Swedish Academy of Science. In his research, the experimental physicist focuses on how fundamental types of interactions manifest in subatomic systems, in particular in nuclei with large excesses of neutrons or protons, where exotic structures and properties emerge.