Professor Niklas Lorén 
Biography
Niklas received a MS in Chemical Engineering with Physics in 1996 at Chalmers University of Technology, Göteborg, Sweden. He then received a PhD in Bioscience at Chalmers University of Technology and The Swedish Institute for Food and Biotechnology in 2001. Currently, he is employed as a researcher at Product Design and Perception at Research Institutes of Sweden (RISE) in the Bioscience and Materials division. He is also an Adjunct Professor at the Eva Olsson Group, Department of Physics, Chalmers University of Technology.

Research Interests

• Structure-property relationships in foods and soft materials
• Quantitative techniques to determine local mass transport properties in soft materials using confocal laser scanning microscopy
• Imaging of water containing soft materials using electron microscopy
  
• Determination of spatial salt distribution using SEM-EDX
  
• 3D imaging, image analysis and virtual design of soft materials

Publications

• de Kort, D.W.; Schuster, E.; Hoeben, F.J.M.; Barnes, R.; Emondts, M.; Janssen, H.M.; Lorén, N.; Han, S.; Van As, H.; van Duynhoven, J.P.M. (2018) Heterogeneity of Network Structures and Water Dynamics in κ‑Carrageenan Gels Probed by Nanoparticle Diffusometry. Langmuir, 34, 11110 - 11120.
  
• Pihl, M.; Kolman, K.; Lotsari, A.; Ivarsson, M.; Schüster, E.; Lorén, N.; Bordes, R. (2018) Silica-based diffusion probes for use in FRAP and NMR-diffusometry, Journal of Dispersion Science and Technology, (doi: 10.1080/01932691.2018.1472015).
  
• Kvist, P.; Schuster, E.; Lorén, N.; Rasmusson, A. (2018) Using fluorescent probes and FRAP to investigate macromolecule diffusion in steam-exploded wood. Wood Science and Technology, 52, 1395 – 1410.
  
• Röding, M.; Gaska, K.; Kadár, R.; Lorén, N. (2018) Computational Screening of Diffusive Transport in Nanoplatelet-Filled Composites: Use of Graphene To Enhance Polymer Barrier Properties. ACS Appl. Nano Mater., 1 (1), 160–167.
  
• Hamngren-Blomqvist, C.; Gebäck, T.;  Altskär, A.;  Hermansson, A-M.;  Gustafsson, S.; Lorén, N.;  Olsson, E. (2017) Interconnectivity imaged in three dimensions: Nano-particulate silica hydrogel structure revealed using electron tomography. Micron 100, 91 - 105.
  
• Longfils, M.; Röding, M..; Altskär, A.; Schuster, E.; Lorén, N.; Särkkä, A.; Rudemo, M. (2017) Single particle raster image analysis of diffusion for particle mixtures, J. Microscopy, 269, 269 - 281. 
• Schuster, E.; Sott, K.; Ström, A.; Altskär, A.; Smisdom, N.; Gebäck, T.; Lorén, N.; Hermansson, A-M. (2016) Interplay between flow and diffusion in capillary alginate hydrogels, Soft Matter, DOI: 10.1039/c6sm00294c.
• Hamngren-Blomqvist, C.; Abrahamsson, C.; Gebäck, T.; Altskär A.;  Hermansson, A-M.; Nydén, M.; Gustafsson, S.; Lorén, N.; Olsson, E. (2015) Pore size effects on convective flow and diffusion through nanoporous silica gels, Colloids and Surfaces A: Physico chem. Eng. Aspects, 484, 288–296.
• Lorén, N.; Hagman, J.; Jonasson, J.K.; Deschout, H.; Bernin, D.; Cella, F.; Diaspro, A.; McNally, J.G.; Ameloot, M.; Smisdom, N.; Nydén, M.; Hermansson, A-M.; Rudemo, M.; Braeckmans, K. (2015) Fluorescence recovery after photobleaching in material and life sciences: putting theory into practice, Quarterly Reviews of Biophysics 48, 3, 323–387.
• Wassén, S.; Bordes, R.; Gebäck, T.; Bernin, D.; Schuster, E.; Lorén, N.; Hermansson, A-M. (2014) Probe diffusion in phase-separated bicontinuous biopolymer gels. Soft Matter, DOI: 10.1039/c4sm01513d