Claes Fahlander

Claes Fahlander (born 21 January 1948 in Gothenburg) is a Swedish physicist. As of May 2025, he is Professor Emeritus, Particle and Nuclear Physics, at Lund University.^[1]

After completing studies at Gävle University College in 1967, he attended Uppsala University, where he obtained his bachelor's degree in mathematics and physics in 1972. He became a Ph.D. in nuclear physics in 1977, and a teacher in 1982. Between 1979 and 1982 he worked at the Australian National University in Canberra, and in the following decade at Uppsala University. During a 1995 to 1997 sabbatical, he was a researcher at the Laboratori Nazionali di Legnaro in Italy,^[2] and on 1 July 1996 he succeeded Hans Ryde as professor of Cosmic and Subatomic Physics at Department of Physics at Lund University.^[3]

Fahlanders’ research has focused on studies of the shape of the atomic nucleus, its core patterns and electromagnetic properties, as well as forces between protons and neutrons in nuclear nuclei.^[3] In 2016, Fahlanders and his team verified the discovery of element 115,^[4] which had previously been discovered in Dubna, Russia in 2003.^[5]

Fahlander was elected as a member of the Royal Physiographic Society in Lund in 1998 and as a member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences in 2006.^[3]